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Re:Coursera and Udemy are now one company on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:48PM (#48113472)

Yes, Programming Languages by Dan Grossman! The course was later split up into three parts, with each part focusing on a particular language/paradigm: SML, Racket, and Ruby. Definitely one of the higher quality offerings on Coursera.

Re:Ask HN: What to do to be healthy when old? on Monday October 03, 2022 @05:36AM (#33065250)

If you are in your twenties, read Starting Strength [1].

If you are in your fifties, read both Starting Strength and The Barbell Prescription [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Train... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Barbell-Prescription-Strength-Trainin...

Re:Ask HN: How to study programming language theory as a non CS student? on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:06AM (#26659963)

The "Programming Languages" three part series by Dan Grossman is excellent.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-c

Re:Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020? on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:32AM (#23723392)

MIT has consistently high quality MOOCs. Here's a new philosophy course on edX (offered for the first time this year) https://www.edx.org/course/moral-problems-and-the-good-life

Re:Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these ... on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:03AM (#19613726)

You can study Group Theory and Category Theory simultaneously using Chapter 0 by Aluffi: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6829004-algebra

Twitter blocks French government with its own fake news law

Posted by z0k on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:58AM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47800418

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an open source curriculum for for a mathematics de... on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:30PM (#19072352)

There's a fairly detailed curriculum here (three parts) https://www.quantstart.com/articles/How-to-Learn-Advanced-Ma...

Re:Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019 on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:03PM (#19004505)

You can start with this book if you want to go straight to making a gameplay agent https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-and-the-game-of-...

Re:Who Can Name the Bigger Number? on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:05AM (#18508580)

This essay was published in 1999. Reference: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3445

It inspired the "Biggest Number Duel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=fy7_RkuQ4M0

For anyone interested, the above video is from "Paradox and Infinity" on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/paradox-infinity-mitx-24-118x-0

Re:To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:08AM (#17715174)

There are some useful tips for reading papers using Anki here: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

Scroll down to the heading "Using Anki to thoroughly read a research paper in an unfamiliar field".

Opening of a DeepMind Office in Montreal, Canada

Posted by z0k on Monday October 09, 2017 @03:42PM
from the deepmind.com dept.

https://deepmind.com/blog/strengthening-our-commitment-canadian-research/

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Re:Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:57AM (#14977407)

This seems very interesting, but I'm getting a 404 at this link.

Re:Rock climbing significantly reduces depression on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:42PM (#14466482)

I think this is the study they are citing https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281260875_Indoor_ro...

Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:29AM (#14400161)

It's not kW/h, it's kWh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour