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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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Post by saosebastiao »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #47
saosebastiao wrote: post #40

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> This is terrible math. Nursing a child severely inhibits getting pregnant; without use of formula (or a substitute like goat's milk or what have you), it is extremely rare for children to be spaced only one year apart. It's rare enough that there's a special term for such children -- "Irish twins". The timespan for two separate births in 2018 and 2019 isn't 12 months, it is anywhere between 12 and 24 months. While…

Yes, giving birth twice in 24 months is normal, but that gives you a very narrow window within 2018/2019. If you give birth in July of 2018, an 18 month spacing won't let you give birth in any month of 2019. That's still a very significant negative adjustment to "demographic factors get you to 5X+". Demographic factors aren't the only factors there are. edit: a quick sanity check tells us the factor of 5 estimate is…

Good call with that sanity check. Patio11's assertion definitely had that paradoxical lightbulb moment that makes you want to believe it is true (a la Malcolm Gladwell), but two data points were all that was necessary to expose it.

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Post by botanrice »

autotune wrote: post #55
botanrice wrote: post #35

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What are some certs that you believe are worth investing in (i.e. ones that do require hands-on learning)?

Mentioned in initial comment (probably could have been more clear that those are the certs that require hands on learning): RHCSA/RHCE/CKA/CCIE are the first ones that come to mind.

Thanks for your response.

Do you believe that those certifications are solid investments for any IT professional (from developer and up) or only for those that are looking to become a SysAdmin/Network Engineer? (forgive me if my terminology isn't spot-on)

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Post by botanrice »

minimaxir wrote: post #37
botanrice wrote: post #36

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What are some of your favorite MOOCs/certs? Slash what do you deem to be some of the "best" or most worth for its ROI?

The best thing to do with the highest ROI is your own projects for a portfolio, ideally things which haven't been done before (e.g. in the context of data science/ML, not the Titanic dataset or sentiment analysis of Trump's tweets). Everyone has their own learning style, but I stopped doing MOOCs once I realized that doing work in a similar domain is more practical.

Thanks for your response. I agree that portfolio projects show more about a person than their certifications. I never liked taking exams in school anyways. :p

Regardless, do you think that there are any MOOCs/certifications that are worth investing in, if you were going to get one anyways? Say, if your employer is paying you to get one, etc.

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Post by barbecue_sauce »

ghaff wrote: post #83
barbecue_sauce wrote: post #82

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Is there a cert to go along with the courses?

Some online courses or groups of online courses have certs associated with them. Some don't. Whether those certs are worth anything from a job hunting perspective is going to depend on the cert and who is looking at them. Very situationally dependent.

I was specifically speaking with regard to this offering. AWS has a pretty mature certification program (though I think was recently outsourced), so I figured they would have some sort of certification track to motivate people to consume their educational resources.

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Post by afthonos »

_uhtu wrote: post #66
afthonos wrote: post #34

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That’s assuming those are the alternatives. If the alternative is instead to show you something you’ve already ordered or nothing, the odds of you ordering again if you see the thing you’ve ordered already are small, but nonzero.

If the chance I'm going to buy something that I've already bought again is close to 0, and it's not smart enough to find anything else for me that it thinks I should buy, then logically it should show me random things. That way I'm training the algorithm for them and maybe I'll find something I want.

Logically, they will show you whatever is most likely to generate revenue (possibly amortized over time). As long as the probability of you reordering is higher than that if you buying a random item out of millions (and those odds are tiny to begin with), the logical thing to do is to show you the item you already ordered.

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Post by ric2b »

philbarr wrote: post #6
have_faith wrote: post #3

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All that machine learning and they still think I would like to re-buy every product I've ever purchased.

Google has the same problem. I was searching for information about Apache Chainsaw the other day, and at one point forgot to put the word "apache" in as a search term. Ended up with adverts for actual chainsaws for like a week.

Google gets even more ridiculous.

Whenever I travel to another country they show me ads for that country, in a language I don't speak.

This is on a ~10 year old account that I use daily, that has my language and country as settings, so 0 data analysis needed.

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Post by muhneesh »

omega3 wrote: post #100
muhneesh wrote: post #43

I'm excited for this - I have stitched together my own courseplan to study machine learning, but this will be great to workback from, complement, or supplant in certain cases.

Is this something you could share?

Hi, sorry I missed this message. You probably won't see this, but my plan is to do the following (you can Google the course names):

1. Learn math (I majored in history and sociology)

Classes ------------- Linear Algebra: Foundation to Frontiers (UT Austin) Linear Algebra, MIT OpenCourseware Single-Variable Calculus, MIT OpenCourseware Multi-Variable Calculus, MIT OpenCourseware Probability Theory, Stanford CS109

2. Learn machine learning Machine Learning, Stanford CS229 (taught by Andrew Ng) Classes @ deeplearning.ai (also taught by Andrew Ng)

3. Start my own project

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