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Completely agree with this. To really learn linear regression, you need to be comfortable with linear algebra (for OLS) and calculus (gradient descent). I actually wrote most of the machine learning c…

Hey, I've experienced similar feelings in the past. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat outside of HN bout this more (my email is in my profile).

This is actually probably based on Tensorflow Playground - https://github.com/tensorflow/playground - made by some of the Distill.pub people :)…

Related to this, Omar Rizwan did a great talk recently on file system interfaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHpDDXJQVg (Four Fake File Systems)…

Jon Blow's been working on a programming languages for games (intro / philosophy here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ Series of videos here - https:/…

WebAssembly will no doubt give us more freedom, but still has a lot of constraints. Also, it's fundamentally a hack built on top of the browser ecosystem, not replacing browsers entirely!

Surprised nobody has mentioned HyperCard - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercar... There was a very compelling vision for the web, by Doug Engel…

This is something we're striving hard to do at the startup I'm involved with (end-to-end resources for learning machine learning, with just high school math background assumed). In our Data …

Every single person here, if your serious about diving into the science of sleep, should read Matthew Walker's book: Why We Sleep: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dr…

Ben Thompson from Stratechery has some good thoughts on what makes Google tricky to regulate: - Google: https://stratechery.com/company/google/ - Regulation: https:/&#…

Really good book, I really encourage everyone who's interested in cities to read it.

Cal Newport addresses this very well in the first 10 mins of his talk at Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOdU02SE0w …

I help people get data science jobs for a living (and I'm an otherwise annoying career advice giver to others) and this is the ONLY book I recommend everyone to read. I've read it probably 1…

Wish I could edit my first comment to include this, not sure why I can't.

Common ones I hear: - He hasn't shipped anything popular (he's a researcher, expanding the tree of knowledge, not an engineer optimizing for shipping) - Smalltalk isn't as great as Alan…

Some more talks by Alan, for people who are interested: https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay …

I would really really encourage everyone here to watch Alan Kay's recent talks on how poorly we understand systems and why it's critical we get better at managing them. Some good ones: - ht…

Hey, this is unfortunately not in the expected format for this thread :(

Hey, I'm involved with a startup and we're aiming to just that -- provide a 0 to job-ready experience in machine learning. We're more of a paid, integrated experience than a repo with n…

Hey, I'd love to help out in any way I can. I'm a data scientist by training, also involved in a startup that helps people learn data science (with a pretty popular data science blog too).

I had a RMBP 15 2017 version and recently switched to Arch Linux on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th Gen. I have nothing but good things to say about the experience. I do miss some of the multi-touch ges…

I made this exact same switch a few months ago! RMBP 15 to Thinkpad X1 Carbon + Arch Linux. I've loved it but I do miss the trackpad (although I've adjusted my workflow to use physical butto…

There's so many nice things like this that Smalltalk offered. Fundamentally, they were inspired a lot by systems thinking / theory and related fields like biology. They seemed obsessed (in a…

I highly highly recommend everyone read Deep Work by Cal Newport - http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ The key concept Cal talks about that's relevant for this discu…

Super excited. Just reached out to the email on the site on how I can help technically in the future!