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Re:I should have loved biology on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:03AM (#25147916)
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.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:39AM (#17521808)
1) Adults in the room - Yanis Varoufakis (2017)

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.

Re:2014 Fields Medals announced on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @08:39AM (#8172560)
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.

[1] http://www.amazon.fr/Théorème-vivant-Cédric-Villani/dp/22467...

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)

I suppose it is a way to avoid spam though.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014) on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:39PM (#8121263)
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)
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Location: London

Remote: Would consider

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Golang, Python (django, flask), Java, Javascript (jQuery, angularjs), HTML, CSS, R. AWS (EC2, cloudsearch, S3), App Engine.

Resume: http://romainstrock.com

Email: contact [at] romainstrock.com

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014) on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:18PM (#8121050)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or London

Full stack Python and Golang developer

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)
contact [at] romainstrock.com

More info: http://romainstrock.com

As an alternative, you could consider Hugo (http://hugo.spf13.com/overview/introduction), which gives more flexibility regarding the organisation of files and urls.
Slick! I'm curious, how much time and money did you spend for making this video?
Re:Introduction to Recommender Systems on Monday August 05, 2013 @05:05PM (#6163040)
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.

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:

[1] the sample size calculator (How many subjects are needed for an A/B test?): http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html

[2] <unashamed plug> easyAB: a jquery plugin for easily start A/B testing using Google Analytics. http://srom.github.io/easyAB/ </plug>

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