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Surely your joking Mr Feinman. I was a child prodigy eons ago and wished I read that when I was a teen.

I have a PhD in CS but am a huge udemy fan/user. The itch it scratches when I want to learn about a brand new topic. You asked for good courses .. Andrew LeMoth's course in electro…

Also a confluence user. Our content does go out of date periodically and it is annoying at times (wish I could trivially switch everything to md or html) .. but I think it solves t…

Is this pepper's ghost, or something different?

Um ... I don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTf7wT5WR0

I had such an a-hole interviewer the last (and hence final) interview I did at Google. His attitude was ... oh .. you have a PhD, let me show you how smart I am. Just like getting …

Hey .. I just came across Mu in the context of the BBC Microbit. From a few days of hacking with it, I must say I am very impressed. The ability to flash code to the microbit, the …

Last I looked at Vex, I seem to recall being surprised that the software was not free. Was a non-starter for me as a hobbyist.

I thought they charged on a per minute basis. Still ... a valuable resource. I haven't done the costing but seems buying a cheapo printer is more economical than using any per-minu…

Yup .. I also encountered the microbit recently, and it is very well done IMO. A bit easier to use than the Arduino for lil kids.

I got a Cozmo ... has vision and a Python API, which seems like a good idea. Haven't had a chance to really use it. It was also a bit expensive. I have made my own robots in the pa…

I was "over contributing" to my 401K for years ... I realized this when it came time to buy a house and fork up a down payment. I was rich in 401K but not in liquid cash :( Still n…

Not sure why you were downvoted. I feel the same way. People might be going boo-hoo ... but they don't understand the point you are making. I presume you have a high paying job in …

Here is another one in Python/Lego mindstorms: http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2012/pdfs/iqbal...

Why though? I don't think globalization is the culprit.

Nice project! I've been dabbling in DL for about a year (skimmed Stanford CNN course, Silver's RNN course, Andrew Ng's old ML course, etc.). While I can recreate basic stuff like M…

How is this not a scam?

Curious what you think the problems are. Drivers are a huge one IMHO (as the parent poster mentioned). From a tech perspective, perhaps the biggest one. The only other tech major t…

Read the book wikinomics. This is just a cheap way to outsource R&D. I'm a professional scientist and I think the whole prize-based way of doing research is stupid. My personal opi…

I didn't know we had the tech to detect earthquakes with high prob (say >99%) something like 60 seconds in advance. Can someone comment? If we can detect, you are right that it is …

The differentiation is probably why I wouldn't have bothered to hack it myself. Curious how you/others would tackle it? What do you mean by auto differentiation?

Yeah .. but his first impulse was to write backprop from scratch. I saw the lectures, been dabbling with NN for years, and I never thought to do it. I always thought the Stanford p…

I went through the first a couple of topics. It seemed very disjointed. Different people presenting, different exercises. Was it like this internally? Or is this heavily "annotated…