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I'm no LLM fanboy and I do know about their issues and shortcomings. I also think that asking the right questions to a model while following a lecture, assessing its answers and in…

I'm a CS/AI teacher in an engineering school. A few days ago, towards the end of my course on convolutional neural networks, I asked my students to explain why tha first linear lay…

Yes, it's manual. I have no experience with automatic ones. Admittedly, it is a rather pricey model (Omega Speedmaster). I bought it second hand for 1500 € a few years ago. Unfortu…

The PineTime is still an electronic gadget that you won't use for very long. My watch takes 15 seconds to rewind each day, and 5 seconds to be time adjusted by one minute twice a w…

Personal and subjective opinion ahead. Any smartwatch will become unusable, polluting garbage a few years (months?) from now: a canonical example of planned obsolescence. Their sel…

I beg to differ: for all its qualities, Eloquent JavaScript is not a very beginner-friendly book. It goes quite deep into many JS intricaties and contains a lot of challenging task…

Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

The modern JS tutorial is indeed a very good and comprehensive resource. For all its qualities, Eloquent JS is not a very beginner-friendly book. For a smoother learning curve, you…

Registered! BTW, awesome panel title.

Nice introductory resource. On the same topic, see also: - Andrej Karpathy's elegant micrograd library: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd - This tiny neural networks API inspir…

Are there some example projects available somewhere? I cannot find any (apart from nbdev itself).

If you don't have much programming experience, you should start with The JavaScript Way ( https://github.com/thejsway/thejsway ), which was written with beginners in mind (disclaim…

Some historical context on scikit-learn: https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/154357/1/paper.pdf (2013) https://amueller.github.io/papers/wo_the_machine_varoquaux.p... (2015)

The same kind of report, written a few days after releasing a self-published open source book: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/taking-off-the-successful-la... Nine months later, th…

The choice of TensorFlow is a bit disappointing for a beginner-focused course which looks really solid otherwise. Business seems to have gotten priority over pedagogy in that case.…

As a teacher myself I know this firsthand and I agree with you. Unfortunately, text is not a good medium to describe actions. A text-based environment setup tutorial ("double-click…

Thanks for your nice comment and for these suggestions. You can support my work by buying the ebook version on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/thejsway . Monetization is not my #1 pri…

Thanks for your nice comment. I'm currently writing a blog post about this experience. Expect it soon on https://medium.com/@bpesquet .