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You could claim the same about getting high off of glue since that affects the mind too. Seriously, what every day experience /doesn't/ affect your mind?

My point stands on its own. Taking action makes a difference, dropping acid does nothing for anyone. End.

Nowhere did I say I support the war on drugs, prohibition, or any such rubbish. You are free to engage in whatever stupid activity you so choose. Just don't try to claim it was some kind of fulfilling accomplishment, when it was merely shallow recreation.

Flawless logic here. I guess I should try crack, heroine, or maybe downing some motor oil before coming to the conclusion they're not for me?

I have no issue with whatever it is you posited after your masturbatory experience. It's just that I don't find your epiphany particularly deep, nor do I see how LSD was even necessary for you to arrive at your destination of nowhere.

You know what actually makes a difference in life? Acquire knowledge, apply that knowledge, make connections and use all of that to HELP other people and change the world. Tripping on shrooms by yourself or with your fellow dunderheads does nothing for anyone, yourself included. Stop pretending it does.

Instead of doing drugs to experience "enlightenment" (LOL), you could, I don't know... read a book and actually learn something of value.

How is that enlightening? The doc makes you sound like an imbecile.

Are you stupid? Zynga's not a young company at more than 4 years. And this is horribly detrimental for any prospect of IPO.

Same here. I'm thinking ML since it will have programming exercises. I'd likely forget all of the theory otherwise.

The course has some introductory Linear Algebra videos posted.

I don't think you'd be able to understand multiple regression without some basic knowledge of linear algebra.

Excellent, many thanks.

I've read O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. It's a great introductory survey, but it was very light on theory.

I also own Collective Intelligence in Action. It had more explanation of theory than O'Reilly's offering, but most of the chapters devolved into how to use Java data mining framework X.

And on that note, does anyone have any other good book suggestions regarding ML?

That's partly why I bought it. My university didn't have a statistics department, so I never had the chance to take a statistics course that was worthwhile.

Statistics and linear algebra really should be required by all CS programs. It's funny that at many schools those courses are not, yet Calculus is. First, Calculus should have been handled in HS. Second, I've never had a use for Calculus professionally or for anything I've worked on in my free time.