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In Science 15 Aug 2013 | 08:00 am
Loved this snippet: In science, there is always an experiment to be performed, an unexpected result to troubleshoot, a poster to prepare, a conference to attend, newly published research to read, old...
How To Fuel The Internal Engine of Learning 9 Aug 2013 | 08:12 am
From How to Fuel The Internal Engine of Learning. Learning outside school is necessarily driven by an internal engine. … [I]ndependent learners stick with the reading, thinking, making, and experimen...
Worth Sharing 2 Aug 2013 | 12:07 pm
I hope Rex the author of Foundation of Game Design… does not mind sharing this (entire) Introduction. Long before I heard this story, I heard Sid telling me that he got started programming by typing B...
Data Science – A Few Tweets and Links 2 Aug 2013 | 09:27 am
What is Data Science? What is Data Science from Wikipedia Talks a bit of the history as well. What is data science? – O’Reilly Radar Data Science Courses and Recipes Coursera Introduction to Data ...
Machine Learning – A Few Links and Tweets 30 Jul 2013 | 07:12 am
On Machine Learning from A free book on ML – A First Encounter of Machine Learning by Max Welling The first reason for the recent successes of machine learning and the growth of the field as a whole ...
On Respecting the Intrinsic Limitations of the Human Mind 28 Jul 2013 | 06:10 pm
On respecting the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approaching the (programming) task as Very Humble Programmers – From The Humble Programmer … the amount of intellectual effort needed to...
We are Greedy. We Want More. 26 Jul 2013 | 05:27 am
Julia is a new language for data analysis. From four of the origianl developers – f Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, and Alan Edelman on why they invented Julia. We are power Matlab users...
A Few TED Talks on Education 24 Jul 2013 | 08:32 am
For the past few days I have been watching a few TED talks on Education. I want to share a couple of my favorites. The self organizing computer course Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a c...
Dwell Rank – A different Page Ranking Algorithm 12 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
Yesterday, I came across Bipplex, a search engine. Instead ranking pages based on something similar to Google’s PageRank, it uses an algorithm called Dwell Rank. Dwell rank is explained here. We lear...
Recommended Reading – July 8, 2013 9 Jul 2013 | 09:58 am
This is a list of some of my tweets and some context so that you can decide which ones are worth reading. Notes by Tim Berners-Lee: These statements of architectural principle explain the thinking be...
