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Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes
The following notes represent a complete, stand alone interpretation of Stanford's machine learning course presented by Professor Andrew Ng and originally posted on the ml-class.org website during the fall 2011 semester. The topics covered are shown below, although for a more detailed summary see lecture 19. The code…
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Free Programming Ebooks
Since this post got quite popular I decided to incorporate some of the excellent suggestions posted in the comments, so this list now has more than …
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Farewell to MIT
I defended my Ph.D. thesis on September 7th, 2011. Technically, I'm still not done for a few complicated reasons, but at this point I am willing to declare victory and say I've graduated. Like most other major events in life, this has caused me to reflect on the past four years, when I quit my job at Google to become…
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Resolutions for programmers
It’s important for programmers to continuously challenge themselves in order to avoid creative and technical stagnation.
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Why 13th Chords
As the background to my music theory is more classical in nature, it used to puzzle me when I saw jazz chords like C9, B♭11 or F13. I mean, I knew what a 9th, 11th and 13th note were but I wondered why you'd call a note a 9th rather than a 2nd, or a 13th rather than a 6th and so on.
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