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gime_tree_fiddyon India's iconic Ambassador car brand is sold to Peugeot

Just to be clear, are you blaming protectionism ?

gime_tree_fiddyon India's iconic Ambassador car brand is sold to Peugeot

Nothing too devastating. Wars were along the borders, once with China and few times with Pakistan.

gime_tree_fiddyon Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle

Maybe, this is a little bit off-topic.

But anyone, who tried to use JetBrains IDEs on Ubuntu, might have faced the problem uglier font rendering with OpenJDK and the fix to it is to use the JDK from Oracle.

I thought the different with OpenJDK was largely about the licensing. Anybody with some insight on it ?

gime_tree_fiddyon Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction

Sort of off topic. I have been planning to do the same course(CS 231n), and was wondering, is it okay if I do the Andrew Ng Machine Learning (Coursera) in parallel, or is it more of a prerequisite ?