I am currently self-learning biology and I just completed MIT's 7.00x introduction to biology on edX [1].
The course is outstanding and anything but a "lifeless recitation of names". Prof Eric Lander (key researcher on the Human Genome Project) goes through two centuries of research and takes the time to explain how and why discoveries came into existence. It goes from the early days of biochemistry to recent major advancement such as CRISPR/Cas9.
I'm looking to apply my ML expertise to the field of biology and this course was a real windfall, I highly recommend it.
must read for anyone leaving in, or interested in the politics of the European Union; the book is a political memoir of Varoufakis' fight against the EU institutions during his 6 months as finance minister of Greece in early 2015.
The people of Greece had elected the syriza government to put an end to the incredibly harsh austerity they've been through during the past 5 years. But the Greek government had agreed to, and was bounded by the terms of the two bailout programs from the Eurozone & the IMF. Faced with a dilemma, democracies must compromise. But Democracy has no place in the Eurozone, as Wolfgang Shäuble, former finance minister of Germany, puts it very clearly during his first meeting with Varoufakis: "Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy".
Three years after the events recounted, this book is still very much relevant, and anyone wanting to understand EU politics ought to read it.
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2) And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - Yanis Varoufakis (2016)
Companion book to the first one, it explained how the Eurozone crisis came to be by recounting its history from the end of the second world war to today. A key book to understand the institutions of the European Union, whether or not you agree with Varoufakis' economic theories. I highly recommend it, as it is very well written, in plain english, with no economic background required.
Cedric Villani (Fields Medal 2010) wrote a book about his work [1] where he tries to give the reader a hint of what it looks like to be a mathematician on a day to day basis. It's quite interesting, even though he does not try to explain his theory.
That's great! However, I would like to be able to add places without the need to be on site at the time of writing (e.g using a geocoding service like Google Maps API)
Hi! 24 y.o with an entrepreneurial spirit, just graduated from UCL (MSc Web Science and Big Data Analytics)
I have 2 years experience in web development in Python and Java, working both on App Engine and AWS.
I am willing to work on:
- Data analysis (Python and R)
- Machine learning (recommender systems, sentiment analysis)
- Web development (Full stack Python Java Golang && HTML CSS Javascript)
- MVP App development (Hybrid apps with phonegap)
Freshly graduated from UCL: MSc in Web Science and Machine Learning
24 y.o with an entrepreneurial spirit willing to work on:
- Data analysis
- Machine learning (recommender systems, sentiment analysis)
- Web development (HTML CSS Javascript)
- MVP App development (Hybrid apps with phonegap)
A few hours of filming and a few hours of edits. Our amazing ninjas graced us with their acting skills. David, the cameraman loaned us his house, camera and his mad skillz. Nicky Blitz is also a friend and was nice enough to let us use the track. All in all, there were some costs, but very minimal. Concept to youtube in one week.
Download the resources and you'll be able to take the class at your own pace. There are several tools for that purpose on github. e.g this one: https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl
As a special gift, it's allow you to archive the courses for later review.
Mainly I just want the graders to stay up. I've taken 2 programming courses and having the auto-grader feedback really helps in figuring out how I'm doing assignments incorrectly.
I think the main reason why any reasonably complex grader is not allowed to run after the course has officially finalized is cost(s).
While for users it's free to take the course, the offering company probably has to pay fees to whatever IaaS they're using to run the grader(s). I would imagine to make it 'cost-effective' for their purposes, they'd be interested in as many people as possible benefiting from the grader's functionality if they're being charged by the hour for example or some other block-allocation unit.
I would suggest giving Udacity a try as well. Most of their courses do not have deadlines.
For example, here is a great course they offer on web development: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs253 , co-authored by one of the Hipmunk and Reddit creators.
Indeed Google Analytics has added the multi-armed bandit approach in Content Experiment. It's quite slick btw, but definitely more difficult to implement than traditional split testing.
My 2 cents:
The course is outstanding and anything but a "lifeless recitation of names". Prof Eric Lander (key researcher on the Human Genome Project) goes through two centuries of research and takes the time to explain how and why discoveries came into existence. It goes from the early days of biochemistry to recent major advancement such as CRISPR/Cas9.
I'm looking to apply my ML expertise to the field of biology and this course was a real windfall, I highly recommend it.
[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...