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seycombion Roger Penrose: Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

In this lecture, based on his new book, Roger will argue that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential, may be leading today's researchers astray, most notably in three of science's most important areas - string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology.

seycombion [Lecture Videos] CMU 10-701 Introduction to Machine Learning

ML Introduction Courses Comparison

10-715: this course is intended for PhD students in the Machine Learning Department.

10-701: this course is intended for PhD students with a strong mathematical and programming background.

10-601: students in this course have the most diverse collection of backgrounds.

10-401: this course is intended for undergraduates with a strong computer science and mathematical background.

seycombion A curated list of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Crytocurrency resources

Don't forget the Princeton / Coursera course:

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies Online Course https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNcSSleedtfyDuhBvOQzFzQ/vid... https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

seycombion Harvard CS229r, MIT 6.S898 Proofs, Beliefs and Algorithms Through Sum of Squares

Fall 2016, Instructors: Boaz Barak and Pablo Parrilo. Notes + Schedule at http://www.boazbarak.org/sos/ Lecture videos in youtube link in title

seycombion Germans React to UK’s micro:bit

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seycombion Linear Algebra Abridged – Sheldon Axler (WEBDL, 2016)

direct link http://linear.axler.net/LinearAbridged.pdf

seycombion Struggles with the Continuum

he blogged about this last week https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/john-baez/

seycombion Goldman Sachs Has Started Giving Away Its Most Valuable Software

use search link instead https://www.google.com/search?q=Goldman+Sachs+Has+Started+Gi...

seycombion 21 days without a whinge

whinge = complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way

seycombion 6.045/18.400 Automata, Comput, and Complexity

Does anybody know how do obtain the videos for offline viewing?

Scott Aaronson, spring 2015 https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/sp15/6.045/special/videos...

seycombion Ask HN: Maths book for software engineers who want to learn Machine Learning?

Here is a list of top 16 machine learning books aimed at the data scientist (not what you asked but there is a short description with each book). These books are used by universities like Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Harvard, etc.

And just to make sure that you are aware of it, there are lots of opencourseware with lecture notes and videos.

Caltech/Yaser Abu-Mostafa book info + lecture video at https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

Stanford/Andrew Ng for course info see http://cs229.stanford.edu/ for video lectures see https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning