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In the same vein -- John Nash once said that Minsky was the smartest person he ever met. ...He also said that he thought McCarthy was an idiot. :)

This article reminds me of a lot of what Dalton Caldwell spoke about in his talk about why not to start a music startup at a Startup School in the last several years. This business…

Your blog post makes an important mistake in that it recommends actually inverting the matrix X^T X, which one never actually does in this case. In general, A^{-1} b is sort of mat…

One way would be to take a course on a topic that uses linear algebra heavily, rather than taking a generic linear algebra course. Since all the ideas from linear algebra are then …

It's a good followup. Those models are widely used in computer vision, natural language processing, and other AI and applied ML areas, so those classes all go together.

In an earlier comment, you said that much of the time was spent in constructing the features (e.g. you had to implement CSS). Did you mean implementation time, or training/classifi…

Some higher-level math will be important, other parts will not be. The parts that will be more useful are more on the analysis side (real analysis, complex analysis, functional ana…

People have already explained the fact that the field now goes under a number of different names, and that it is very active, so I won't rehash this. A few pointers to things where…

Advanced Linear Algebra, Roman; Linear Algebra, Hoffman & Kunze; Matrix Analysis, Horn & Johnson; Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Rudin; Real Analysis, Royden. Miscellaneous c…

One could say a number of things, but I'll just say this: I would suggest that you consider working for a bit in between undergrad and grad school. If you had a strong chance of ge…

I haven't read the GraphLab paper in detail, but note that Google itself developed a new framework called Pregel for doing graph-based data processing that doesn't fit MapReduce we…

I'm just curious; how can you recommend it to family/friends looking for a computer , since currently you still need an extra machine to sync the iPad to? Is it that they have a de…

Some fairly well-known consumer-facing things that use machine learning are spam filters, recommendation engines, speech recognition systems (speech-to-text or customer service stu…

One option is to browse some major university websites for commonly used textbooks and pick one that's appropriate for your level (in terms of math/econ background) and seems inter…

To get some candidate schools, you may want to take a look at rankings (e.g. US News) for Ph.D. programs in computer science -- if you're actually sure you want to do CS, as people…

Gruber does approach technology from a pro-Apple viewpoint, but many of his articles are at least organized around verifiable facts, though some may argue with his opinions or conc…

Sorry if this is off topic, but am just curious -- what does a "good bible program" involve? Surely the Bible is available via some kind of Kindle/iBook thing?

People keep saying this, but the point is that Facebook got traction to begin with because it was highly private (only open to a small number of Ivy League colleges), and even late…

Most banal example is intervals in the real line (e.g. reals between 0 and 1), which show up all the time. But comfort with infinity is needed for other uses also, two examples bei…

"Hard" is of course highly subjective, but the material in this article is standard (usually sophomore-junior) undergrad material and is very widely used.

I recall Microsoft, Google, and other large engineering companies making very similar efforts (and the tech companies certainly push lifestyle factors much more directly). It's the…

Agreed, but this is kind of an "80-20 rule" thing. 80% of the time is spent on those 20% of activities, and 80% of people are basically just doing email, browsing, Twitter/Facebook…