Understanding Gaussian Process, the Socratic Way

Wei Yi
Towards Data Science
69 min readDec 1, 2019

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Gaussian Process is a machine learning technique. You can use it to do regression, classification, among many other things. Being a Bayesian method, Gaussian Process makes predictions with uncertainty. For example, it will predict that tomorrow’s stock price is $100, with a standard deviation of $30. Knowing uncertainty is important for applications such as algorithmic trading. I have designed trading…

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I am a principal data scientist at AstraZeneca. Previously I worked at SecondMind, Microsoft Research, and also was CTO of a hedge fund EQB.