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Would you mind me asking you a question? It is pretty obvious that you are good at algorithms. Would you mind sharing how you got good at them? I ask because although I am decent a…

Apparently the ram is soldered on the motherboard, so no.

I've been stuck in this exact same place for the last one year or so. I wanted a job in machine learning or possibly NLP and python is my language of choice, while the language is …

I am writing a search engine. The main purpose was to work on a large project to give myself exposure and polish as a programmer (sysadmin by trade). The crawling and indexing syst…

Since posting my comment about sublime text, I went ahead and downloaded and gave it a try. I must say it seems to fit my needs as far as python is concerned quite well, from the s…

Interesting that sublime text comes up. I have been looking for a "bells and whistles" sort of IDE for python for a few days now, I am traditionally a unix person so I have moved a…

What sort of development environment are others here using for go (if using it at all, of course) ? I've had reasonably good experience with the go-mode in emacs.

The screen resolution is an issue for me as well. I think they should have been able to fit in 1440x900 in a 13.3 inch size, similar to what the larger macbook airs ship with, whic…

I am Indian too and have lived in India for most of my life in a small town. I have never seen this. Have you seen this quite often ?

Thanks a lot, especially for the names of the books. After reading yours and other advice in this thread I am convinced that the way to get up to speed quickly would be to start wi…

I meant linear algebra, mostly matrix related analysis and such.

Thank you, fortunately I was able to find an economy edition of both books (Linear Algebra and its applications by Strang though) after reading your post, so I have lots of work to…

Thank you for the link, I used to subscribe to r/math at one point. However, my problem is a bit different. I am looking to re-learn the stuff I had gone through in college, as opp…

I have Spivak's book actually, I got the hardcover from a used book store several years ago. It did seem a bit daunting to me from what I recall, I had used Tom Apostle's book when…

Thanks, I will look into it I was under the impression that Khan Academy is for people new to the subject? I will check out the calculus and algebra lectures there.

Thanks, solving questions before reading sounds like an excellent strategy, especially given that I'm supposed to have read it all before. Now I will try to make a list of books to…

I went through a decent mathematical curriculum during college including calculus and linear algebra several years ago, and while I was nowhere near the best I had good skills. Rec…

No I am exactly in the same place. I missed the programming activities (I was going to use numpy instead of octave and it turned out to be too much of an effort). I have re-enrolle…

Sure, I started off with Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then I started with the book called Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. I also have the PCI book to supplement Mitchell's boo…

Thank you, that sounds like a good idea. I may start looking into the HN api. I have been working to build a search engine for reddit using their api for a week now (not very matur…

Thanks for the suggestion, I actually did sign up to kaggle a couple of days ago and am working on some of their problems. I was looking for something more internet related as gett…

Thank you, that sounds very interesting. I assume you would use known images with plants in them as the training set.

I have been working through Tom Mitchell's book on machine learning and I want to supplement the theory with a practical project. Does anyone have experience with small projects wh…

What channel was this on? I want to follow this on TV but have not seen this reported yet.

At least vimeo is still blocked on port 443.