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Ask HN: Where can I do a self-study math degree online?

Posted by piqalq on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

My background is in CS and I’m currently working as an ML engineer, but I’m very eager to go back for a PhD soon.In the mean time, I’ve noticed my maths isn’t as strong as I’d like it to be. That aside, I’ve also taken a big interest into calculus.Are there any online courses (free or non-free) that would allow me to learn mathematics either through self study, or as a MOOC? I’ll gladly take...

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Ask HN: How to restart with a new email address?

Posted by piqalq on Saturday November 24, 2018 @10:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm making the move from my old (8+ years) gmail account to fastmail, mainly for privacy reasons and what not.Has anyone ever done this, and/or how would you recommend starting this new email account? I want to leave the gmail days behind and don't want to just export/import my GBs of emails from one provider to the other. I'd like a fresh start.Is it just as simple as updating services I use...

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Re:Firefox can now stop Instagram and Facebook from tracking you online on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:37AM (#17074748)

Odd. I’ve used Firefox exclusively for the past 4 years and am a tab hoarder (150+) and my laptop is as quiet as the night with Firefox using very little memory when compared to Chrome

Re:Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local... on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:12AM (#17074510)

Ah, different use case then as opposed to using AI or ML for drug discovery.

I agree, robots are hit and miss

Re:Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local... on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @09:09AM (#17073623)

Re:Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local... on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:26AM (#17073160)

What makes you think that? Media? What are you including under the umbrella of AI? ML, Deep Learning? Are you in the industry?

Re:Warriorjs – An exciting game of programming and artificial intellig... on Friday May 11, 2018 @03:25PM (#17050157)

I’ve wondered, why are these types of games, such as Screeps or WarriorJS only ever made to be played with JS. Why not Python or Go or Assembly?

Re:The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10B of Bitcoin in Bunkers on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @09:52AM (#17029784)

I think he means the volatility/instability of it.

Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: officia... on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:13PM (#17004607)

I can tell you, a very bad one.

Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why? on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:52PM (#16863003)

Are you simply wanting to see your data, or do you want it deleted? After GDPR comes in I’m going to be looking into the latter.

Re:What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why? on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:08AM (#16856939)

How’s that going? I was pretty surprised when I’d downloaded my data to see they hadn’t given me so much of what I know they have...

Re:Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages? on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:38PM (#16712616)

Not as good as -

“StackOverflow: How to add numbers”

Re:U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:38PM (#16711800)

What do you think commits are?

git commit -m -S “just having my 4th Oreo milkshake haha”

Re:Will GDPR Make Machine Learning Illegal? on Sunday March 18, 2018 @05:33PM (#16614506)

I see what you’re getting at, but this would be a very lengthy and arduous process. Not to mention, many ML and DL algorithms are incredibly mathematically complex that describing them with literal step-by-step detail sounds like hell.

Re:Let's build an MP3-decoder (2008) on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:41PM (#16601821)

It’s a pain in the ass. I built one for a steganography thesis and the psychoacoustic model is really what made it difficult.

The psychoacoustic model took more time on its own to code than the PCM splitting, MDCT, windowing and Huffman coding.

It’s a fun project however painful. There’s a MP3 encoder from the early 90s floating around that you can use as a base if you can fix the legacy code. I can’t remember the name though, sorry.