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ggr2342

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    Ask HN: Best resources to get started in computer vision, image processing?

    As a programmer where do I get started in computer vision and image processing? Any kind of resource would be helpful.

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    Ask HN: Papers in AI, ML, DL to read for the quality of explanation?

    There are important papers and then there are nicely written important papers. For the field of AI, ML and DL which papers are of the second kind? Important works that are terribly…

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    People from domain other than CS turn out to be better programmers

    Is this generally true or just my anecdotal experience. I have encountered physics, math, geology majors who learned to program because they needed it or they liked the idea of it.…

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    Comment #37584203

    Why C? What was so special about learning it? You got to fiddle with the computer's memory structure and pointers?

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    Ask HN: What was the single best turning point in your life as a programmer?

    Everyone has some pivotal moment in their career that propels their career in a positive direction. If you are a programmer or software engineer, what was that pivotal moment that …

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    Comment #37566486

    I believe Scott Young did something like this with MIT's curriculum. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

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    Ask HN: Which books are the best to self study proof based math?

    The aim is to understand books on proof based calculus, analysis, linear algebra, probability, etc. Mathematical logic has confusing things like exchanging position of quantifiers …

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    Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding

    I have dabbled with many resources before in hope of learning to program and learn basics of CS. I have looked at intro course sequences of schools like MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc. Mo…

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    Ask HN: Which books were the most influential in creating a field expert of you?

    The field can by any field and by expert I don't mean the number 1 world expert. By expert I mean someone who can confidently do work (create things) in their domain for quite some…

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    Comment #37324194

    > has been pretty controversial course which other members of the department gave accused of not sufficiently preparing students for the second year curriculum which mostly use imp…

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    Comment #37263396

    Start with fast.ai courses for learning Deep Learning at the practitioner level.

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    Ask HN: Codebases and writeups that beginner programmers can learn from?

    Peter Norvig's pytudes is a great example of what I am talking about. Are there other such code repositories or similar things in any language that one can learn from?

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    Ask HN: Which are the best resources to learn data wrangling, munging, etc.?

    Data wrangling is often considered not a beautiful task, to put it nicely. But the skillset is an immensely important one, according to me. It opens new doors in places. Python is …

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    Ask HN: Which math book(s) did you learn the most from?

    Which math book(s)/textbook(s) were the most valuable to you knowledge and skill development wise? In a sense, making even more math topics much more easier for you to understand. …

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    Ask HN: What is you time management/planning system for a well balanced life?

    Do you use apps or analog pen and paper? In either case what is the system that you use to get work done and lead a healthy and balanced life overall?

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    Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?

    Anything that have had a positive impact on your life.

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    Ask HN: Why is calculus considered such a difficult subject to learn?

    I see this primarily from students in US universities. They dread their freshman calculus classes? Why? Are the teachers bad or the curriculum or books? Calculus is such a beautifu…

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    Ask HN: Data workers, which topics or tools have provided you the most utility?

    Data workers => People who deal with moderate to huge amounts of data for different purposes. They may be grad students, analysts working for some organisation, engineers, basic sc…