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Ah indeed, I mixed up his name with the Shalev part of the name of the other author.
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I really enjoyed Ben-David (and Shalev-Schwartz)'s book "Understanding machine learning". It's essentially about theory though, not "learn all about machine learning in torchsorflow in 10 days".
Comment · 5 years ago
> No, certainly not just excel.

Indeed, let's not forget LibreOffice

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You could also point out that he has abandoned the kurds in Syria (Rojava), where they are losing ground against the turkish army and their jihadist mercenaries. They are about to ethnically cleanse the region, with dramatic consequences for the autonomous zone that has developed a seemingly fair democracy.

The military branch of the PYD party was crucial during the fight against ISIS. Leaving them to die in Erdogan's hands is tragic.

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I've never had any trouble with PYTHONPATH, I guess this is solved by pyenv with virtualenv. You just need to select the project interpreter the first time you open the project and it should just work.

I haven't used rope extensively, it's too bad that it doesn't work well. It's open source so I guess it needs more contributions.

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Bayesian approaches are gaining momentum in cognitive sciences. See for instance "The Bayesian brain" article by Knoll and Pouget.

There is also Cox's theorem, that essentially states that probability theory is the only sound system that extends logic in the presence of uncertainty, to continuous values (between 0 and 1) instead of the two values 0 and 1.

Comment · 6 years ago
By definition: p(A|B) = p(A,B) / p(B) (1)

With the same definition, switching A and B roles, we have p(A, B) = p(B|A) p(A) (2)

Plug (2) into (1) and you have Bayes rule.

Comment · 6 years ago
Such an amazing talk ! Someone linked to this on HN a while back, this allowed me to discover David Beazley. I then got the Python Cookbook, and watched a bunch of other very cool talks. He's an excellent speaker and python wizard!

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