Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course

Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Course

The purpose of this project is to provide a comperehensive and yet simple course in Machine Learning using Python. The purpose of this project is to provide the most important aspects of by presenting a series of simple and yet comprehensive tutorials using . In this project, we built our tutorials using many different well-known Machine Learning frameworks such as .

Source: github.com

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children: study

(Image from original paper)However, looking more closely at the data for the students who started learning after the age of 20, there are a lot of late learners who outperformed many native English speakers. On average less likely, certainly, but there are thousands of people who took this quiz, got a score in the range that a native speaker would, and started learning the language after the age of 20. The top quartile of results of learners who started after the age of 20, by number of years of exposure, showing that at around 8–10 years of exposure, many learners who started well into adulthood do just as well as many native speakers.

Source: medium.com

Illinois might start charging $1k per year to own an electric vehicle

Illinois might start charging $1k per year to own an electric vehicle

A proposed hike in Illinois’ annual registration fee for electric vehicles, from $17.50 to $1,000, is being called unfair by current EV owners, and a sales disincentive by manufacturers — just as the new technology is beginning to gain broader traction. Aimed at raising money to make overdue road improvements across Illinois, the proposed legislation would also more than double the state’s gas tax to 44 cents a gallon and raise the registration fee for standard vehicles to $148, from $98, among other elements. For Skarlatos, a self-employed software developer who bought her Tesla using $7,500 in federal incentives and $4,000 in state incentives, the idea of suddenly having to pay a $1,000 registration fee to own an electric vehicle in Illinois is “unfair,” and would have dissuaded her from an environmentally motivated purchase.

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Gitlab Company Strategy

Gitlab Company Strategy

GitLab is a single application based on convention over configuration that everyone should be able to afford and adapt. There are a few significant, but often overlooked, nuances of the everyone can contribute to GitLab the application mantra: While collaboration is a core value of GitLab, over collaborating tends to involve team members unnecessarily, leading to consensus-based decision making, and ultimately slowing the pace of improvement in the GitLab application. While there are contributions that may not get merged as-is (such as copy/paste of EE code into the CE code base or features that disagree with product philosophy), the goal is to coach contributors to contribute in ways that are cohesive to the rest of the application.

Source: about.gitlab.com

Trump Administration Might “Re-Examine” Climate Modeling

Trump Administration Might “Re-Examine” Climate Modeling

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler used an overseas gathering of environment ministers this week to hint that the United States might overhaul the way it uses climate data and modeling. Wheeler has been critical of the IPCC’s conclusions and of the National Climate Assessment, a U.S. report that issued similar warnings last year. Meyer and others suggested that Wheeler might be referring to plans within the White House to convene a task force within the National Security Council to undermine the scientific underpinnings of the National Climate Assessment.

Source: www.scientificamerican.com

Autonomous Driving Inside the Heart

Autonomous Driving Inside the Heart

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As reported April 24 in Science Robotics, the catheter found its way along the walls of a beating, blood-filled heart to a leaky valve in an animal model, without a surgeon’s involvement. Once the robotic catheter reached the leak location, an experienced cardiac surgeon took control and inserted a plug to close the leak. In repeated trials in swine, the robotic catheter successfully navigated to heart valve leaks in roughly the same amount of time as a surgeon using either a hand tool or a joystick-controlled robot.

Source: hms.harvard.edu

Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech

Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech

Stroll through an engineering office and you are likely to hear the (mostly white, mostly male) denizens making statements like:

The idea of strong opinions, loosely held is that you can make bombastic statements, and everyone should implicitly assume that you’ll happily change your mind in a heartbeat if new data suggests you are wrong. As world-class poker player Annie Duke points out in Thinking in Bets, even if you start at 90%, your ego will have a much easier time with a reversal than if you have committed to absolute, eternal certainty. When the opinion that you express has explicit room to evolve, they know there is going to be a respectful space to share their own ideas.

Source: blog.glowforge.com

Keybase 4.0

Keybase 4.0

heronhaye released this May 8, 2019 · 112 commits to master since this release

• Finally search across all chat conversations

• New navigation experience and design. • Better context when doing a chat “reply”

• Team mentions: try ‘@team#channel’ or just a ‘@team’ in chat. • Quickly filter your files list

Source: github.com

MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children

MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children

(Image from original paper)However, looking more closely at the data for the students who started learning after the age of 20, there are a lot of late learners who outperformed many native English speakers. On average less likely, certainly, but there are thousands of people who took this quiz, got a score in the range that a native speaker would, and started learning the language after the age of 20. The top quartile of results of learners who started after the age of 20, by number of years of exposure, showing that at around 8–10 years of exposure, many learners who started well into adulthood do just as well as many native speakers.

Source: medium.com

Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Machine Learning Course

Show HN: Python Machine Learning – A Crash Machine Learning Course

The purpose of this project is to provide a comperehensive and yet simple course in Machine Learning using Python. The purpose of this project is to provide the most important aspects of by presenting a series of simple and yet comprehensive tutorials using . In this project, we built our tutorials using many different well-known Machine Learning frameworks such as .

Source: github.com