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from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import rbf_kernel


class KMeansTransformer(BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin):
    def __init__(self, centroids):
        self.centroids = centroids

    def fit(self, X, y=None):
        return self

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What

Roll your own iPython Notebook server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) using their Free Tier.

What are we using? What do you need?

• An active AWS account. First time sign-ups are eligible for the free tier for a year
• One Micro Tier EC2 Instance
• With AWS we will use the stock Ubuntu Server AMI and customize it.
• Anaconda for Python.
• Coffee/Beer/Time

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I've been interested in computer vision for a long time, but I haven't had any free time to make any progress until this holiday season. Over Christmas and the New Years I experimented with various methodologies in OpenCV to detect road signs and other objects of interest to OpenStreetMap. After some failed experiments with thresholding and feature detection, the excellent /r/computervision suggested using the dlib C++ module because it has more consistently-good documentation and the pre-built tools are faster.

After a day or two figuring out how to compile the examples, I finally made some progress:

Compiling dlib C++ on a Mac with Homebrew

1. Clone dlib from Github to your local machine:

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# clear the workspace
rm(list = ls())

# load the relevant libraries

# install.packages(rCUR)
library(rCUR)  # for CUR decomposition
# install.packages(irlba)
library(irlba)  # for fast svd

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# Mathieu Blondel, September 2010
# License: BSD 3 clause

import numpy as np
from numpy import linalg
import cvxopt
import cvxopt.solvers

def linear_kernel(x1, x2):
    return np.dot(x1, x2)

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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_mldata
from sklearn.decomposition import FastICA, PCA
from sklearn.cluster import KMeans

# fetch natural image patches
image_patches = fetch_mldata("natural scenes data")
X = image_patches.data

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#!/usr/bin/python
#
# K-means clustering using Lloyd's algorithm in pure Python.
# Written by Lars Buitinck. This code is in the public domain.
#
# The main program runs the clustering algorithm on a bunch of text documents
# specified as command-line arguments. These documents are first converted to
# sparse vectors, represented as lists of (index, value) pairs.

from collections import defaultdict