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by bpesquet 2y ago
I'm no LLM fanboy and I do know about their issues and shortcomings. I also think that asking the right questions to a model while following a lecture, assessing its answers and integrating them into one's own reasoning is difficu
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by bpesquet 2y ago
I'm a CS/AI teacher in an engineering school. A few days ago, towards the end of my course on convolutional neural networks, I asked my students to explain why tha first linear layer of the example PyTorch network had a specific n
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Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science(osf.io)
3 points by bpesquet 3y ago|0 comments
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by bpesquet 3y ago
Yes, it's manual. I have no experience with automatic ones. Admittedly, it is a rather pricey model (Omega Speedmaster). I bought it second hand for 1500 € a few years ago. Unfortunately, prices have since skyrocketed for many emblemat
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by bpesquet 3y ago
The PineTime is still an electronic gadget that you won't use for very long. My watch takes 15 seconds to rewind each day, and 5 seconds to be time adjusted by one minute twice a week. Service is every 5 years, the last one cost me 88
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by bpesquet 3y ago
Personal and subjective opinion ahead. Any smartwatch will become unusable, polluting garbage a few years (months?) from now: a canonical example of planned obsolescence. Their self-tracking functions are a double-edged sword, a source of s
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How France led the evacuation of foreigners from Khartoum(economist.com)
1 points by bpesquet 3y ago|0 comments
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by bpesquet 4y ago
I beg to differ: for all its qualities, Eloquent JavaScript is not a very beginner-friendly book. It goes quite deep into many JS intricaties and contains a lot of challenging tasks for people just discovering programming. More beginner-foc
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by bpesquet 4y ago
Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.
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by bpesquet 4y ago
The modern JS tutorial is indeed a very good and comprehensive resource. For all its qualities, Eloquent JS is not a very beginner-friendly book. For a smoother learning curve, you might consider https://github.com/thejsway&
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by bpesquet 6y ago
Registered! BTW, awesome panel title.
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Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months(twitter.com)
471 points by bpesquet 6y ago|264 comments
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by bpesquet 6y ago
Nice introductory resource. On the same topic, see also: - Andrej Karpathy's elegant micrograd library: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd - This tiny neural networks API inspired by it: https://gith
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The crisis on campus is here to stay(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bpesquet 6y ago|0 comments
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by bpesquet 6y ago
Are there some example projects available somewhere? I cannot find any (apart from nbdev itself).
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by bpesquet 7y ago
If you don't have much programming experience, you should start with The JavaScript Way ( https://github.com/thejsway/thejsway ), which was written with beginners in mind (disclaimer: i'm the main author). Then
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by bpesquet 7y ago
Some historical context on scikit-learn: https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/154357/1/paper.pdf (2013) https://amueller.github.io/papers/wo_the_machine_varoquaux.p... (2015)
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35 years go: the clever decision that prevented a nuclear war(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by bpesquet 8y ago|1 comments
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by bpesquet 8y ago
The same kind of report, written a few days after releasing a self-published open source book: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/taking-off-the-successful-la... Nine months later, the book earned a little more than $3,000 in
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by bpesquet 9y ago
The choice of TensorFlow is a bit disappointing for a beginner-focused course which looks really solid otherwise. Business seems to have gotten priority over pedagogy in that case. I see TensorFlow as the Angular of machine learning: first
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The successful launch of an open source book(medium.freecodecamp.org)
3 points by bpesquet 9y ago|0 comments
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by bpesquet 9y ago
As a teacher myself I know this firsthand and I agree with you. Unfortunately, text is not a good medium to describe actions. A text-based environment setup tutorial ("double-click on this icon", "create this file in that fol
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by bpesquet 9y ago
Thanks for your nice comment and for these suggestions. You can support my work by buying the ebook version on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/thejsway . Monetization is not my #1 priority right now, but that might change later
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by bpesquet 9y ago
Thanks for your nice comment. I'm currently writing a blog post about this experience. Expect it soon on https://medium.com/@bpesquet .
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by bpesquet 9y ago
This is a great idea, thanks! I need to figure out how this could be organized and will get back to you in a few days.
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by bpesquet 9y ago
Hi all, author here. Backstory: I'm a CS engineer/teacher and this book is a side project started in December 2016. You can read a bit more about it here: https://medium.com/@bpesquet/walk-this-javascript-way-
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Show HN: The JavaScript Way, a book for learning modern JavaScript from scratch(github.com)
545 points by bpesquet 9y ago|110 comments
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by bpesquet 10y ago
I don't consider Object.create() and factory functions to be "old patterns", but YMMV. How would you teach OOP basics to a JS newcomer then? Using only class without mentioning prototypes?
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by bpesquet 10y ago
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/02/28/cs-department-update... https://medium.freecodecamp.com/what-programming-language-sh... http://prog21.dadgum.com/203.html To each his
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by bpesquet 10y ago
Care to elaborate? Understanding prototypal inheritance seems essential to me, and Object.create() is the cleanest way to show it in action. The book also presents the alternative class syntax and numerous ES2015 additions like block-scoped

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