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A quick note on the comments section of the blog. I had been using a free version of the Disqus plug-in to manage comments on my posts. Unfortunately Disqus recently shifted to a new policy and will now force users of the free ver…
I try to experiment with a lot of different technologies. I’ve found that having experience with a diverse set of concepts, languages, libraries, tools etc. leads to more robust thinking when trying to solve a problem. If you do…
After finishing Walter Isaacson’s well-known 2014 book The Innovators [https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Created-Revolution/dp/1476708703] , I was struck by a few things. First, I realized just how little I knew…
A few months ago, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts - NPR's TED Radio Hour [http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/] - when I came across a TED talk that really stuck out. It was a talk given by Cesar Kuriyam…
This post is part of a series covering the exercises from Andrew Ng's machine learning [https://www.coursera.org/course/ml] class on Coursera. The original code, exercise text, and data files for this post are available here […