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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:29:21 +0000

I'm training RNNs all the time and I've witnessed their power and robustness many times, and yet their magical outputs still find ways of amusing me. This post is about sharing some of that magic with you.

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 18:29:21 +0000

Tags: #ai #learning #machinelearning

SQL on Khan Academy enabled by SQLite, sqljs, asm.js and Emscripten

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:09:02 +0000

Our implementation of SQL is based off of SQLite which is compiled down to asm.js by Emscripten packaged into sqljs.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #khan #learning #sql #to:twitter #webdev

SQL on Khan Academy enabled by SQLite, sqljs, asm.js and Emscripten

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:09:02 +0000

Our implementation of SQL is based off of SQLite which is compiled down to asm.js by Emscripten packaged into sqljs.

Tags: #khan #learning #sql #to:twitter #webdev

Understand How It Works - Martin Rue

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:32:27 +0000

If you simply remember how to do something, then all you can do is use it the same way over and over, but if you understand how it works, you can reason about it. Once you can reason about something in your mind you can contemplate why it is the way it is, you can apply your entire creative mind to making the most of it, and you can implement and question improvement – you own it intellectually.

Tags: #diy #imported:pinboard #learning #life #make #to:fb

Synthesia, Piano for Everyone

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:23:43 +0000

Whether you've always wanted to learn or you're a veteran looking for a fun new way to practice, get ready to join the thousands using Synthesia.

Tags: #gaming #imported:pinboard #learning #music #piano #synthesia

Synthesia, Piano for Everyone

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:23:43 +0000

Whether you've always wanted to learn or you're a veteran looking for a fun new way to practice, get ready to join the thousands using Synthesia.

Tags: #gaming #learning #music #piano #synthesia

A federal judge learned to code - O'Reilly Radar

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:23:43 +0000

The last couple of days, there's been a fair amount of blogosphere angst over Coding Horror's "Please Don't Learn to Code." Ironically, the best argument for learning to code appeared this morning, when it turned out that Judge William Alsup in the Google case could program, and learned Java in the course of the trial, and wasn't going for Oracle's claim that a short range-checking function was days of work. Alsup recognized immediately (and says he wrote the function hundreds of times during the course of the trial) that it's just a few minutes work for a competent programmer.

Tags: #coding #google #imported:pinboard #law #learning #oracle #politics

Digital Badges May Highlight Job Seekers’ Skills - NYTimes.com

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:55:32 +0000

“What people are learning in school is often not connected to the world of work,” she said. “Badges can fill that gap. They can be a kind of glue to connect informal and formal learning in and out of school.” If valued, they might also inspire students to accomplish new tasks.

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Treehouse Is an Elegant, Focused Online Learning Resource for Aspiring Designers and Developers

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:21:18 +0000

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Peer-driven learning: We ain’t cracked that nut.

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:28:33 +0000

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A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:38:23 +0000

"If the mainstream of "college teaching" becomes a set of atomistic, underpaid adjuncts, we'll lose a precious academic tradition that is not easily replaced."

Tags: #college #education #future #learning #professors #publishing #technology

Matt Legend Gemmell – What have you tried?

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:59:15 +0000

"The problem is that this person’s problem-solving technique is to ask for the solution. Not to seek advice on how to approach the task, or ask for the names of likely classes to look into, or a link to an example – but to just ask for the code, fully formed and ready to go. This is not problem solving, and software engineering is entirely about problem solving."

Tags: #development #learning #problemsolving #programming #software

National Center for the History of Electronic Games

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:23:15 +0000

"Situated at Strong National Museum of Play, the National Center for the History of Electronic Games™ collects, studies, and interprets electronic games and related material and the ways in which electronic games are changing how people play, learn, and connect with each other."

Tags: #culture #electronic #gaming #history #iwantogotothere #learning

Programmer Competency Matrix

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:38:23 +0000

"Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n. "

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