Notes on Blanchard's patent timber bending machine

System Effects Influencing the Bending Strength of Timber Beams

A stochastic model of hierarchical series system type for the bending strength of spruce beams is defined from the anticipation that the bending failure takes place at a cross-section with a defect cluster formed by knots or grain irregularities. The parameters of the model are estimated from measurements of the strengths of a large number of short test pieces cut from the beams such that judge...

Introductory Machine Learning Notes

Machine Learning has become a key to develop intelligent systems and analyze data in science and engineering. Machine learning engines enable systems such as Siri, Kinect or the Google self driving car, to name a few examples. At the same time machine learning methods help deciphering the information in our DNA and make sense of the flood of information gathered on the web. These notes provide ...

Machine Learning Lecture Notes

i is typically called a feature or an attribute. We generally distinguish between two related but different types of prediction problems: classification and regression. Generally speaking, we have a classification problem if Y is discrete and a regression problem when Y is continuous. The classification problem refers to constructing a function that for a previously unseen data point x infers (...

Cs 229 Notes: Machine Learning

Part 1. Supervised Learning 1

Machine Estimation of Timber Volumes for Use in Sampling Surveys