lambdacalc

Hello folks,I am thinking of putting together an online course which goes over the fundamentals of discrete optimization in the context of the traveling salesman problem. While there is a lot of focus on machine learning nowadays, I feel optimization and the set of tools it provides is often ignored and is a wonderful teaching ground for both physics-inspired heuristics as well as techniques in...

Fellow hackers, I am a former academic and current data scientist. I have been getting feedback that I explain technical and mathematical topics well for a few years but never took the comments seriously.I am finally considering putting together courses on topics in machine learning and optimization that are hopefully both detailed and practical but start from first principles. An example is a...