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Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by shmageggy »

I think this is an instance where HN's rigid title policy is a negative. It took me a minute to realize why this page, ostensibly a syllabus page for a university course, is relevant to a general tech audience. You have to scroll down past three subsections to "Resources" to realize that all of the lecture slides and problem sets, as well as videos of the lectures, are available for free. I just hope people aren't missing out on this great resource because the title can't be editorialized.

Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by maxjus »

CloudFlare is saying that the site may be down due to "excessive load." I was under the impression that this is one of the main reasons CloudFlare exists, to handle big surges in traffic like this one. Their intro video leads me to the same conclusion. Can anyone who uses CloudFlare shed some light on this?

Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by _delirium »

shmageggy wrote: post #3

I think this is an instance where HN's rigid title policy is a negative. It took me a minute to realize why this page, ostensibly a syllabus page for a university course, is relevant to a general tech audience. You have to scroll down past three subsections to "Resources" to realize that all of the lecture slides and problem sets, as well as videos of the lectures, are available for free. I just hope people aren't mi…

I like the Metafilter solution to that: rather than just submitting links, users submit links and a short, 1-2-sentence explanation of why they think the link is interesting. I find it much easier to browse the submissions there as a result. Maybe the explanations could be hidden on the front page, but I'd find them very useful on the 'new' page.

Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by bkanber »

maxjus wrote: post #4

CloudFlare is saying that the site may be down due to "excessive load." I was under the impression that this is one of the main reasons CloudFlare exists, to handle big surges in traffic like this one. Their intro video leads me to the same conclusion. Can anyone who uses CloudFlare shed some light on this?

Cloudflare isn't too much more than a wrapper around a CDN for your static assets. The request still gets sent to your server, they just re-host your images and stuff on their edge servers. They also do some "security stuff", and can help you with minifying assets and things like that. So excessive load can still be a problem.

On top of that, the free account doesn't really come with any guarantees.

Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by osteele »

maxjus wrote: post #4

CloudFlare is saying that the site may be down due to "excessive load." I was under the impression that this is one of the main reasons CloudFlare exists, to handle big surges in traffic like this one. Their intro video leads me to the same conclusion. Can anyone who uses CloudFlare shed some light on this?

CloudFlare doesn't proxy HTML pages, by default, because so many of them are dynamically generated. You have to add a page rule to proxy HTML too.

Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by SeanDav »

shmageggy wrote: post #3

I think this is an instance where HN's rigid title policy is a negative. It took me a minute to realize why this page, ostensibly a syllabus page for a university course, is relevant to a general tech audience. You have to scroll down past three subsections to "Resources" to realize that all of the lecture slides and problem sets, as well as videos of the lectures, are available for free. I just hope people aren't mi…

Wow. Exactly what you feared happened to me. I tool a quick look at the link, couldn't see the point and promptly closed it.

Sometimes, on a quiet day, some quite dubious content can reach the front page and I thought that this was a such a case.

Thank goodness I saw your comment.

BTW. What is HN title philosophy? Could the OP not have said: Lectures available online for Introduction to Machine Learning?

Re: Introduction to Machine Learning

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Post by gwern »

osteele wrote: post #7
maxjus wrote: post #4

CloudFlare is saying that the site may be down due to "excessive load." I was under the impression that this is one of the main reasons CloudFlare exists, to handle big surges in traffic like this one. Their intro video leads me to the same conclusion. Can anyone who uses CloudFlare shed some light on this?

CloudFlare doesn't proxy HTML pages, by default, because so many of them are dynamically generated. You have to add a page rule to proxy HTML too.

Thanks. I was actually under the impression that CF would do HTML as well, but I searched and you seem to be right: https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22036831-How-do-I-cac... So I'll try that out and see if it helps performance/bandwidth.
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