So I am totally behind on writing these updates, the last one was almost 3 weeks ago. But hey, better later than never.
The Coursera course on Machine Learning is also a bit behind. Right now I am almost done with week 7. In order to finish the rest of the course by end of December I would have to go at a pace of one week of lectures in a week’s time as opposed to twice as slow. Doable, but holidays are not exactly helping as I tend to be offline during vacations.
Take for example Thanksgiving! We managed to do an epic road-trip from San Francisco to Grand Canyon to Phoenix to Joshua Tree National Park and then back to San Francisco.
On the flip-side, I got a lot of reading done. I finished reading the Programming Collective Intelligence book (as part of Computer Science curriculum) as well as Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior book (vaguely part of Linguistics curriculum, but hey, it’s my curriculum!).
Fun stuff
Are these names pokemon names or big data cmpanies? https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ (Thanks Matt for the link!)
ML in the news
Google open sourced Tensorflow: a library for Machine Learning. https://www.tensorflow.org/
Here is Wired article about it.
That’s all for today!