I don’t have any time these days, so I’m just going to say that the link below is the best machine learning video that I have seen this year.
“Random Kitchen Sinks: Replacing Optimization with Randomization in Learning“.
(Thanks to Ali Rahimi for giving the talk and thanks to Carl for sending me the link.)
Edit 10-29-13:
Check out Igor’s and Alex Smola posts
“Random Kitchen Sinks, Fast Food and other randomized kernel evaluations” (Nuit Blanche)
“Compressed Sensing: Random Features for Large-Scale Kernel Machines” (Nuit Blanche)
“The Neal Kernel and Random Kitchen Sinks” (Adventures in Data Land)