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Wow, this is really a great resource. I wish it had been available a few years back when I took the free online version of CS231n. The hardest part (for me, anyway) was the long-fo…

Adding my own anecdote, there seems to be some kind of problem with high I/O loads on High Sierra. One of my projects involves indexing thousands of URLs. During development I use …

Paranoid patient question: when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects? I'm sure they ask if you have any devices implanted, but do they actually …

I think the concern is more that a sentience that is many orders of magnitude more intelligent than humans simply won't care about us. How do you feel about ants?

I like to build something that I've programmed before in another language. Maybe this seems redundant. But if you have the problem fresh in your mind, it leads to asking the kinds …

A month ago I was in the same place- I would start reading a short blog posting on RNNs/ConvNets/etc., and within 2-3 paragraphs my eyes would glaze over from the math and other fo…

My guess is he's referring to the large number of romance loanwords that came into the English language as a result of the Norman Invasion.

I'm really looking forward to no longer having to figure out which project I have to axe to keep my "small" plan under the 10 repo maximum. That was always annoying.

I was just starting the 3rd lecture. A real shame.

A "kind of" compression using polygons: https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolu... I believe it was discussed here a few years back.

No need to apologize- I learned SO much from your blog, thank you. I didn't realize the course was online ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnWJUyUJYU ). Also, looks like there's …

People are knocking this guy for not being an expert and maybe getting some details wrong. Maybe it's a little bit like watching a non-programmer stumble their way through a blog p…

My comment wasn't meant to knock C++; it was to point out that Linus' opposition to the language is well-documented, and an official git-rewrite in C++ is very unlikely.

Re-writing Git in C++? Can't tell if you're trolling or not. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

I doubt it. I did Java for over a decade, but jumped at the opportunity to use Go with its statically compiled binaries. The JVM is great, but being tied to it is kind of a hassle.…

I dread tax time every year. I'm self-employed, so I don't exactly expect it to be easy, but I generally end up spending 3-4 full days working on my return. Not including the metic…

If we can digitally describe something as a sequence of bytes, and we stack those bytes end-to-end, can we not say that the bytes together form a (very large) integer, and that the…

You know I think there is this phenomenon of "listening in the wrong language". As an American in France, sometimes I'd meet people and they'd want to try out their English with me…

For a while now I've been thinking about something like this: once a month I put some amount of money in my "browser account". Maybe it's $25, or $10, maybe sometimes it's nothing …

Particularly for "small" languages like Go and C, there is a benefit to sitting down with a comprehensive reference and reading it cover-to-cover. A few hours/days spent in quiet s…

I discovered it when visiting an old project after a whole OS wipe-and-restore from TM. A week later I found that 'git' wouldn't recognize a project dir due to some missing pieces.…

Do you rely on Time Machine? Drop to the shell right now and try "tmutil compare -n" to see which files are not making it onto your backups. For me, Time Machine randomly ignores c…

For those confused by 25 year old Scala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company) .

I'm sure he meant speakers of Latin-derived languages. I see native French speakers make this mistake often in English.

Make the font of your input larger: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6394497/93995 .