carlosgg's comments

On: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course

[carlosgg]

I checked the checkbox and it worked.

On: Matrix Multiplication

[carlosgg]

Discussion from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036386

[dang → carlosgg]

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Matrix Multiplication - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141472 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

Matrix Multiplication - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036386 - Nov 2016 (131 comments)

Matrix Multiplication - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033725 - Nov 2016 (2 comments)

[gitgud → carlosgg]

Interesting to compare this discussion vs the discussion 5 years ago. Although the consensus is the same (that it's not very intuitive) people seem to be much more blunt with their criticism now...

On: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

[carlosgg]

The first 3 courses of the Statistics with R specialization, taught by Dr. Mine.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/statistics

On: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

[carlosgg]

Robert Sedgewick's courses, including Algorithms Part 1 and Part 2.

https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~250165

[sidcool → carlosgg]

Can't recommend enough. I am currently doing this and loving it.

[kathe-rine → carlosgg]

I really enjoyed the projects in these.

On: Computational Photography with Luminar 4

[carlosgg]

Also Computational Photography: https://www.udacity.com/course/computational-photography--ud...

On: Open Forensic Science in R

[carlosgg]

7 of the 8 authors listed are women, pretty cool.

[dfsegoat → carlosgg]

Anecdotally, it has been my (limited) experience that the Forensic Sciences are dominated by women, in terms of the makeup of the average lab at the academic or state/federal level. Academic programs seem to show this trend as well:

https://news.psu.edu/story/276199/2013/05/07/research/probin...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1940904080262974...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589871X1...

Source: Worked in a forensic genetics laboratory during my undergrad, and some of my best friends are forensic scientists.

On: Humble Book Bundle: Python Programming by No Starc...

[carlosgg]

"Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and a couple of other books from the bundle are available for free at the author's website:

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

On: Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)

[carlosgg]

In April, Microsoft announced customers who bought books through its ebook store would lose access starting in July.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367

On: A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

[carlosgg]

The course is called Economics 1152. The video lectures and course slides are available here:

https://opportunityinsights.org/course/

On: A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

[carlosgg]

Vox article:

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18520783/harvard...

[dang → carlosgg]

That gives more background, so we've changed the url to it from https://opportunityinsights.org/course/. Thanks!