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I am looking at moving my programming course online due to COVID-19. Any suggestions on a low cost touch enabled tablet for recording lecture sessions. I am looking at creating content like khan academy classes.

jestinjoy1on MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning

This one looks good. https://atcold.github.io/pytorch-Deep-Learning/?fbclid=IwAR2...

jestinjoy1on On Mathematical Beauty in Physics

Just in time I started reading ``Drawing Physics'' by Don S Lemons

jestinjoy1on Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

I am from India and here writing skill for engineers is not valued at all. As someone into research, I found it important when I started sending papers. Academia here is not giving importance to the writing of its students.

jestinjoy1on Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?

I am using

1. Dia: Its FOSS and gives TeX output also

2. LibreOffice Draw

3. Inkscape

jestinjoy1on An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]

Do you have any links showing how to do that with blender?

jestinjoy1on What are the best books you read in 2017?

  -When Breath Becomes Air
  -The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

jestinjoy1on An aspirin a day keeps many cancers away, study suggests

Confirmed through sci-hub [1]

[1] http://sci-hub.cc/

jestinjoy1on New H1-B Visa bill doubles the salary requirements to $130K/yr

Question from an Indian:

In India, this bill is projected as a move by Trump to limit otsiders getting IT job in US. But this bill is moved by a democrat who also moved a bill against travel ban!

What can I infer from this?

jestinjoy1on Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash

God save people of Venezuela. From India.

jestinjoy1on Blender 2.8 project status

I am thinking of using BGE for research purpose. If BGE is not there, de we have any better alternatives? I prefer using python for animation.

jestinjoy1on Roald Dahl – the storyteller as benevolent sadist (2010)

Now reading his book "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" which is a short story collection. It has got the short story by the book title name. Written in 1954, the story revolves around a machine which automatically writes articles. Reading in 2016 this story gives an interesting read. BTW this is the first Roald Dahl book I am reading

jestinjoy1on Deep Learning at x.ai

You could read this nicely written review to get more info about RNN as a starting point http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00019.

jestinjoy1on Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom

I have been using it for Graph theory research. Most researchers at my univ also uses it. Sagemath cloud is pretty interesting. With the power of Python, I think sagemath can beat rather than compete with anyone.

jestinjoy1on Hacker Monthly Shuts Down

Thats nice. Will be helpful for others to start from where you left.

jestinjoy1on Bret Victor's Bookshelf

This is mine. http://i.imgur.com/9KuR1Hz.jpg

jestinjoy1on Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

I a compsci grad. My favorite one is

The Hardware/Software Interface: https://www.coursera.org/course/hwswinterface

jestinjoy1on #ICANHAZPDF Access to Academic Papers on Twitter

I am a noob on copyright. Can I be sued. If I share a paper I have downloaded with my friend over email, as what is done using twitter

jestinjoy1on India's Great Parcel Race

e-commerce changed the way people buy things here in remote places in India. They could buy things that was not even in their dreams few years back. E-commerce advertisements cover most front pages of newspapers now. More startups are coming up in logistics space. Amazon, Alibaba etc has started investing here seeing the market potential. Logistics here is a big problem. Since local sellers are feeling the heat, they are doing everything they can to stop e-commerce players.

jestinjoy1on Staffpad: a new class of notation app

Something like this?

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

jestinjoy1on Jackfruit could save millions from starvation

I am from Kerala, the southern state of India where Jack fruit is grown in abundance. Traditionally Jack fruit tree haven't got the status of Apple, Orange.. Now with reports in media saying that Apple, Orange etc available in our part is made with the excessive help of pesticides, people began looking at jackfruit since it can be grown without using pesticides or fertilizers. Now some startups has moved into commercial production of jackfruit products like http://www.jackfruit365.com/about_us.html