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Captain Obvious: real world transactions don’t look anything like this.

He "sells" these ideas as if he was the first one to ever think of them.

I always thought there should have been an enormous evolutionary pressure for humans to have different skin tones in different geographies. If sunlight is bad for skin than we shou…

Windows 10 + Windows Subsystem for Linux did it for me.

There are now services specific for this that work very well. Example: https://transferwise.com/u/joaoi

Your denominators are wrong. The denominator should be the probability of the classifier being positive: P(True Positive)+P(False Positive) Since you assumed that P(False Positive)…

What are the major differences between a data scientist and a machine learning engineer? Differences in education, tools used, functions within a team, etc.

The best way to memorise hundreds of different algorithms (or anything else for that matter) is to understand the few underlying principles beneath them. I would be surprised if he…

More like learning rate decay. Learning rate is now zero.

I have seen that now we have bokeh, plotly, mpld3. What are the pros and cons of each one of them?

The human reaction time is about 0.1 seconds. They shouldn't use a manual chronometer to measure these results 4.9+/-0.1 is the difference between a world record and a good score.

They are giving poor people another choice they can have access to a very limited Internet or they can have access to none. If they would just loose lot's of money by giving people…

Here is the TED talk of Aubrey de Grey about mortality: http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag... Worth watching

VPython is missing there

I wish Python 3 was never born or Python 2 got murdered when 3 was born. Both of them live at the same time it's the worst thing.

It's easy to make python faster, you have PyPy, you can even program everything in python and then make a simple C code for the bottleneck and wrap it with python. Php it's another…