derekmcloughlin
Joined 12 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Reminds me of Blendoku
Comment · 5 years ago
That’s not true. The vast majority of schools (90%+) teach in English.
Comment · 6 years ago
Really good stuff here - didn't know about follow mode before - it's not mentioned in the "Mastering Emacs" book I have.
Comment · 6 years ago
His own introduction to category theory for programmers is good:
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
Comment · 6 years ago
Only since 1996. Before that a visit to Argos was a must for people in the Republic who went on shopping visits to Belfast.
Comment · 6 years ago
'65 here as well. We had the Acorn Atom at school when I was 16, but I found it underwhelming. My interest in computing didn't really start until 1983 when I started using System 7 Unix on a PDP/11 in college.
Comment · 7 years ago
{SQL Server, Oracle} -> ETL to SQL Server (Hybrid graph db)-> SQL Server Analysis Services -> {Power Bi, Tableau}
Comment · 7 years ago
Joining a cycling club also has the added bonus of social interactions, which is beneficial to your mental health.
Comment · 7 years ago
The words of the Scottish singer Jim Malcolm ring true here:
https://www.jimmalcolm.com/music/sconeward/#BARREN
Last verse:
Slow return to native timber
So they plant the sitka spruce
Only fit to wipe your bottom
No damn good to build a hoose
Comment · 7 years ago
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
-- William Faulkner
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kill%20your%...
Comment · 8 years ago
I found this very useful:
https://makeyourownneuralnetwork.blogspot.com/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1530826608/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_x...
First part goes into what a NN is and how backprop works, second part is an implementation in Python.
Comment · 9 years ago
Sorry, I refuse to read white text on a black background.
Comment · 9 years ago
I found that chapter 2 of the Deep Learning book by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville is quite good.
http://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/linear_algebra.html
Comment · 9 years ago
Do you plan to add connectors to shapes - i.e. lines that stay connected to the objects at either ends? Dealbreaker for me.
https://youtu.be/CBLVtCYHVO8