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carlosggon Matrix Multiplication

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

carlosggon Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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

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

carlosggon Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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

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

carlosggon Computational Photography with Luminar 4

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

carlosggon Open Forensic Science in R

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

carlosggon Humble Book Bundle: Python Programming by No Starch Press

"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/

carlosggon Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)

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

carlosggon A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

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

https://opportunityinsights.org/course/

carlosggon A plan to change how Harvard teaches economics

Vox article:

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

carlosggon Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021

This really interesting Business Week article from early 2017, "Is Emirates Airline Running Out of Sky?", is probably relevant:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-05/is-emirat...

carlosggon The Awful German Language (1880)

"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective."

:)

carlosggon Coursera Machine Learning MOOC by Andrew Ng – Python Programming Assignments

I don't think he's providing the solutions, is he? Just offering an alternative for people, to submit their homeworks using Python instead of Octave.

carlosggon ML5js: Friendly machine learning for the web

Works ok here...

Version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)

carlosggon Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material

Does anyone have any experience with the Fluent Forever approach? Their Kickstarter campaign received more than twice the amount requested[0]. Their book is currently selling for $2 on Amazon[1], and has some glowing reviews.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498952 [1] https://www.amazon.com/Fluent-Forever-Learn-Language-Forget-...

carlosggon Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

Berkeley also used to have this Data Science with Spark series on edX but they taught it just the one time and now even the archived versions of the courses are closed.

https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-science-engineering-apacher...

carlosggon Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

The first 4 he listed are on edX.org, the 5th and 6th on Coursera.

carlosggon Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

Wow, that's excellent. Great job.

carlosggon Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

Hey antman, thanks a lot for the comment! Can you elaborate a bit more on how MooCs have made a difference in your life? Thank you.

carlosggon Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?

R

carlosggon Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017?

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

carlosggon A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (2015)

This one has been posted before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378022

carlosggon Pharo, the Modern Smalltalk

The course is bilingual.

carlosggon Pharo, the Modern Smalltalk

Beat me to posting it. :)

Edit: Actually, the course starts on October 16.

carlosggon Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera

Georgia Tech is also starting a few MOOCs on edX.org, starting 8/21/17, if anyone is interested.

https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-gtx-cs7641x

https://www.edx.org/course/statistical-modeling-regression-a...!

https://www.edx.org/course/big-data-analytics-healthcare-gtx...!

https://www.edx.org/course/database-systems-concepts-design-...!

carlosggon Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

Also, Al Sweigart makes available many of his books for free on his website, including "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", which also has a lot of good reviews on Amazon.

http://inventwithpython.com/index.html

carlosggon Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

These two have a lot of good reviews on Amazon

https://www.nostarch.com/tlcl

https://www.nostarch.com/howlinuxworks2

carlosggon Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

"The Art of R Programming" is very good.

https://www.nostarch.com/artofr.htm

carlosggon New Zealand space launch is first from a private site

For Business Week's Hello World series, Ashley Vance did a report on Peter Beck and Rocket Lab. 4 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvZPpdGjiM&feature=youtu.be...