About

Hello,

Thanks for visiting this blog. My name is Saravanan Thirumuruganathan . I finished my Masters in Computer Science at the University of Texas At Arlington working with Dr.Manfred Huber. In my masters , my Majors were the really cool fields of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining. I started my PhD with Dr.Gautam Das in Fall 2010. I am broadly interested in data mining , machine learning , probability and statistics and many more.

In my free time I try to learn new (computer) languages, master Linux and try to contribute to open source. I used to write poems but somehow cant find enough time now

I started this blog primarily discuss my exploration of my data mining and machine learning. The original intention is to write some neat articles on cool ideas in ML in a largely math free way. Now a days my blog direction is more diffused and I mostly blog on Ubuntu , Chrome extensions , Python and a few random topics in data mining. Hopefully, I will return to ML fold soon !

If you have any topics in ML or Data Mining that you would like me to blog about shoot an email or post a comment !

Most of my friends are baffled by the title of the blog as I am an atheist. The title of the blog is a play on Paul Erdős‘s quote : "You don’t have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book " !!

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23 Responses

on February 12, 2010 at 11:57 pm | Reply Habibillah Faqih Arif

Nice blog ..,
on June 9, 2010 at 3:07 am | Reply Jeyenth

HI Bro,

Nice blog brother,I lik the caption also d explanation u gave for tat..

Keep Rocking
- on June 9, 2010 at 9:10 am | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Thanks bro !
on September 21, 2010 at 12:11 am | Reply Sreenivas

Good blogs. Sad that i didnt see it before
- on September 21, 2010 at 1:27 am | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Thanks machi
on December 15, 2010 at 9:14 pm | Reply srirams1987

Hi dude…gr8 work … keep it going…
- on December 16, 2010 at 10:00 am | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Thanks Sriram!
on January 16, 2011 at 12:30 am | Reply Balu

Hi bro,
This is Balu, Udumalpet. Great work. I didn’t predict you this much. wonderful work. keep it up.
- on January 20, 2011 at 12:09 am | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Thanks Anna !
on April 22, 2011 at 2:06 pm | Reply Rahul

I like your blog. I work on Machine learning and Computer Vision.
on July 20, 2011 at 2:31 pm | Reply Bob

this really seems an interesting blog, glad I found it
on August 26, 2011 at 1:13 am | Reply tpeng2

your blog really help me a lot. thanks!

however i do have one more question (as a self-learner of machine learning):
do you have any recommeded book(and chapter) and video lectures for the probability and statistics?
- on August 28, 2011 at 12:32 am | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  tpeng2,
  
  I learned them in a hard way. I read many books of probability and statistics before I have some idea. Here are some of my favorites :
  (1) Probability and Computing by Mitzenmacher
  (2) Introduction to Probability at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html
  (3) Understanding Probability by Henk Tijms
  (4) All Of Statistics – A Concise Course in Statistical Inference by Larry Wasserman
  
  There are few fascinating video lectures in videolectures.net : Introduction to Probability, Introduction to Statistics, Intro to ML etc. Of course, you can also start with some early MLSS (ML summer school) and start with them. Of course, it is fast paced but after few lectures you get up to the pace.
on September 14, 2011 at 12:06 am | Reply Honglang Wang

Hi, do you still have the videos for statistical machine learning?
- on September 23, 2011 at 4:11 pm | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Honglang,
  
  I am not sure which lectures you are talking about. Most MLSS videos are available on the respective websites !
on October 17, 2011 at 1:58 am | Reply betolink (@betolink)

Great blog! I am becoming more interested in ML these days. Thanks for sharing.
on October 27, 2011 at 12:31 pm | Reply Pete S

Hi. I love Chrome Nanny except for one thing: I can go into the extensions and disable it.
Maybe I missed this in the instructions, but is there a way to block this out as an option? I mean other than hiring an actual nanny.
Thanks!
- on October 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Pete,
  
  Unfortunately, Chrome does not provide any way for extensions to prevent disabling themselves
on February 16, 2012 at 12:10 am | Reply Balaji Sankar

Awesome title and the explanation I don’t know much about Data mining though.
on February 26, 2012 at 9:50 am | Reply Sneha

Can ya blog about recommender systems? I’d really love to read something on that. I’m researching about them and their relationship with KNN (That’s how I found this blog). Your article on KNN was quite informative as well
- on February 26, 2012 at 7:08 pm | Reply Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
  
  Hello Sneha,
  
  I have been working on a blog post on reco systems. Will update the post sometime in the next few weeks.
on March 19, 2012 at 7:59 pm | Reply Priya Krishnan

Hi Sara,

This is really cool… Great blogs… Keep up the good work..
on April 11, 2012 at 10:23 am | Reply Chuck

Hi, I am using your Chrome Nanny and it seems to do what I want it to. However, there is something flexible I would like to be able to do. I want to block a website for different parts of different days.

So, for example, I want to block abc.com Monday to Thursday 500am to 900pm, but Friday only from 500am to 300pm.

However, I can’t figure out how to do this in a single Block Name Set, and it will not let me do multiple Block Name Sets for the same URL.

Any way you can fix the extension to allow for this?

Thanks!