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Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by iDemonix »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #31
crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

Hmm. Interesting. I just implemented the smooth scroll yesterday so I will definitely check that out. Thanks for the input.

Do the entire internet a favour and un-implement it.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by crazypyro »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #33
crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

I made a change to the code, but since I don't have a touchpad, I won't be able to tell if it's fixed. Let me know what happens if you happen to go back to the page.

It's still not working well on my touchpad. It stutters badly. I honestly would recommend removing it. I checked it on my desktop. It works there, but the difference scroll speed is unhelpful and actually a little bothersome.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by LearnDataSci »

piraze wrote: post #39
LearnDataSci wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes it seem like Python for Data Analysis is a pirated copy? I figured since it was hosted from Canisius College it would be legally distributed. I don't want to host pirated content, so if it is I will remove it.

The book is not listed at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ Also the PDF has a link to a notorious ebook pirate platform on every page. If you really believe content on college pages is legal, you must be very naive. I've never seen a naive webmaster that uses domain privacy though.

Thanks for that link, I actually didn't know O'Reilly had such a page.

I'm not very familiar with ebook pirating platforms. So the link didn't seem suspicious to me.

Anyway, the book was removed. Thanks again for pointing it out.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by manigandham »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #33
crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

I made a change to the code, but since I don't have a touchpad, I won't be able to tell if it's fixed. Let me know what happens if you happen to go back to the page.

Please don't use this. There's nothing wrong with browsers and how they scroll. We all know how to use it and it works well everywhere.

You're loading more code just to mess with something that already works without any new benefit (and actually degrading the experience).

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by pigs »

yoklov wrote: post #38

Is anybody aware of good books/resources on machine learning/data science in Matlab? My SO has been trying to learn ML to further her work for a couple months now, and has had a hard time with it. She quite intelligent, but isn't a terribly experienced programmer (she's been writing Matlab for a couple years now, but mostly in a scientific setting)... Either way, I suspect part of the problem is that most of the expl…

This course is great: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning It's all done in GNU Octave, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by yoklov »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #31
crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

Hmm. Interesting. I just implemented the smooth scroll yesterday so I will definitely check that out. Thanks for the input.

It isn't broken on touchpad for me.

That said, if I'm being honest, it's fairly unpleasant to use on a desktop with a mouse. It scrolls you to the top after it loads (which is after the rest of the page), and behaves differently than the computer normally does...

I would recommend doing away with it.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by DeusExMachina »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #31
crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

Hmm. Interesting. I just implemented the smooth scroll yesterday so I will definitely check that out. Thanks for the input.

Smooth scrolling is already implemented correctly in the browser. Your implementation is just a hack that hijacks the normal behaviour a user is accustomed to and just gives back a version that just feels wrong to interact with, even without performance issues.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by nanny »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #33
crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

I made a change to the code, but since I don't have a touchpad, I won't be able to tell if it's fixed. Let me know what happens if you happen to go back to the page.

Just remove it entirely already, it's nearly unusable on my desktop now, and it was bad before.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by maurits »

yoklov wrote: post #38

Is anybody aware of good books/resources on machine learning/data science in Matlab? My SO has been trying to learn ML to further her work for a couple months now, and has had a hard time with it. She quite intelligent, but isn't a terribly experienced programmer (she's been writing Matlab for a couple years now, but mostly in a scientific setting)... Either way, I suspect part of the problem is that most of the expl…

Andrew Ng, the man behind the excellent ML course on coursera, has an introduction to Deep Learning using Matlab.

[1]: Wiki with code, exercises and explanation

[2]: Video lecture one with a recap on back-propagation

[3]: Video lecture two on Sparse Auto Encoders

[4]: Handouts

In terms of books, Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning [5] is Matlab based. So is the Handbook of Monte Carlo methods [6].

[1]: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial

[2]: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/video1.html

[3]: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/video2.html

[4]: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/handouts.html

[5]: http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...

[6]: http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~kroese/montecarlohandbook/

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