Markus Mayer
MOOCs
MOOCs MOOCs MOOCs. I like them. Here's the list of MOOCs I completed in the recent years. The list of the MOOCs I've done recently. Course Link University Points Certificate Remarks Machine Learning ml-class.org Stanford 87.5/80, 800/800 link no distinctions awarded Web Intelligence and Big Data ... Read more »
A review of books on Power-Line Communication
Recently I had to dig deeper into power-line communication ("PLC") pros and cons, competing technologies and standards, and so I got my hands on a number of books. The monographs on this topic are rarely reviewed, with one notable exception: The IEEE COMSOC website features an extensive, annotated reading list, ... Read more »
Machine Learning Techniques for Human Activity Recognition on Smartphones
Introduction The mobile phone market has witnessed stunning growth in recent years, reaching 5.6 billion mobile connections in 2011 [1]. Mobile phones are therefore increasingly accessible to the world population and play an ever bigger role in our daily lives. The recent generation of mobile phones, so-called smart phones, ... Read more »
PV price forecast
This analysis of PV installation costs is based on the anonymized data collected by the online ROI calculator PVCalc. The data spans the period July 2009 - Dec. 2011 and contains price and nominal power data. A simple plot already reveals falling PV installation prices. A closer look also reveals ... Read more »
The Kelly criterion and fixed fraction betting
The Kelly criterion and fixed fraction betting is briefly introduced and extended to left bounded profit/loss distributions (i.e. profit/loss distributions that are bounded from the left). Various inequalities are studied and analytical tools are offered. Click here for the full text. Introduction Let $X$ be a real ... Read more »