My Favorite Things


Sparse Bayesian networks and tight version spaces
K-nearest neighbor with plenty of cases
Robots that someday my coffee will bring
These are a few of my favorite things

Sharp Ockham's razor for trees that need pruning
Steepest descent for parameter tuning
Guiding a cart so its pole doesn't swing
These are a few of my favorite things


When the pole falls,
When the code breaks,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel ... so bad


Training perceptrons with backpropagation
Hold-out sets crucial for cross validation
PAC-learning theorems with no attached strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Web-watching agents and data for mining
Graphs showing error curves always declining
Conference submissions accepted in spring
These are a few of my favorite things


When there's bias,
When there's variance,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel ... so bad