All of this is based on my experience of successfully teaching 300+ students how to code using Python.
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Are you planning to learn Python for machine learning this year?
Here's everything you need to get started.
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All of this is based on my experience of successfully teaching 300+ students how to code using Python.
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Because of 2 reasons:
- Comparatively easier to learn than other languages
- Has the biggest and most mature community
This makes Python a no-brainer to learn for machine learning as a beginner.
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- Basic terminal commands
- Basic arithmetic (+,-,/,*)
- Accepting user input
- For & While loops
- Exception handling
- If-Else statements
- Functions, modules & Imports
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- Object oriented programming in Python:Classes, Objects, Methods
- PIP (Pypi)
- List slicing
- String formatting
- Dictionaries & Tuples
- Managing environments
- Dunder methods like __init__
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- Lambda functions
- Built in libraries like CSV, requests, Sqlite
- Map and Filter
- *args and **kwargs
- Async
- Decorators
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Let's tackle this issue.
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- Anaconda for managing environments (different versions of Python)
- Python3
- Machine learning packages like Sckit learn and TensorFlow using pip when needed
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MacOS: 🔗docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/mac-os/
Windows: 🔗docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/windows/
Linux: 🔗docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/linux/
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Here's a guide with step by step instructions which will help you.
🔗bit.ly/3rbDoyl
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Here are some popular ones
- VS Code: Feature-rich
- Sublime: Light and simple
- Jupyter: Useful for prototyping
- Pycharm: Full-blown IDE i.e has loads of features.
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These are online editors which have everything set up for you.
Not to mention colab and kaggle notebooks give you a free GPU for your machine learning workloads.
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Collab : 🔗colab.research.google.com
Kaggle Notebooks : 🔗kaggle.com/notebooks/welcome
Repl : 🔗repl. it
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Basics: 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw
Intermediate: 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=HGOBQPFzWKo
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Here's a brilliant website which gives you an overview of the windows command prompt, enough for you to get started.
🔗bit.ly/34tmnGd
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🔗youtube.com/watch?v=oxuRxtrO2Ag
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It is not important to learn it at the start but I do recommend it.
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This is a beginner's guide on mining cryptocurrencies.
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Mining 101
Typically, when you transfer money using a service like Paypal, they take a small cut for facilitating the exchange.
In cryptocurrencies, people like you and me act as Paypal and facilitate exchanges of cryptocurrency. We get a cut for this just like Paypal did.
In order to make these transactions happen, our computers need to do some calculations which requires a lot of computational power.
A GPU or a Graphics Processing Unit which is typically marketed for gaming workloads can be used to mine cryptocurrencies.
Why do you need a GPU?
Today, there are so many miners that the "difficulty" of mining cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed, which basically means it takes a lot of computational power to mine crypto which GPUs can provide and CPUs cannot.
(❗ This is an oversimplification)
If you are interested in the inner workings of how blockchain and cryptocurrency, then I highly suggest that you read this thread by @oliverjumpertz
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Mining 101
Typically, when you transfer money using a service like Paypal, they take a small cut for facilitating the exchange.
In cryptocurrencies, people like you and me act as Paypal and facilitate exchanges of cryptocurrency. We get a cut for this just like Paypal did.
In order to make these transactions happen, our computers need to do some calculations which requires a lot of computational power.
A GPU or a Graphics Processing Unit which is typically marketed for gaming workloads can be used to mine cryptocurrencies.
Why do you need a GPU?
Today, there are so many miners that the "difficulty" of mining cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed, which basically means it takes a lot of computational power to mine crypto which GPUs can provide and CPUs cannot.
(❗ This is an oversimplification)
If you are interested in the inner workings of how blockchain and cryptocurrency, then I highly suggest that you read this thread by @oliverjumpertz
What actually is a Blockchain?
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) February 16, 2021
Bitcoin is breaking record after record, but there must be more to the technology than just crypto, or not? Well, we can take a look at the underlying technology first to understand what it actually provides to us.
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Starting a new project using #Angular? Here is a list of all the stuff i use to launch my projects the fastest i can.
A THREAD 👇
Have you heard about Monorepo? I created one with all my Angular (and Nest) projects using https://t.co/aY5llDtXg8.
I can share A LOT of code with it. Ex: Everytime i start a new project, i just need to import an Auth lib, that i created, and all Auth related stuff is set up.
Everyone in the Angular community knows about https://t.co/kDnunQZnxE. It's not the most beautiful component library out there, but it's good and easy to work with.
There's a bunch of state management solutions for Angular, but https://t.co/RJwpn74Qev is by far my favorite.
There's a lot of boilerplate, but you can solve this with the built-in schematics and/or with your own schematics
Are you not using custom schematics yet? Take a look at this:
https://t.co/iLrIaHVafm
https://t.co/3382Tn2k7C
You can automate all the boilerplate with hundreds of files associates with creating a new feature.
A THREAD 👇
Have you heard about Monorepo? I created one with all my Angular (and Nest) projects using https://t.co/aY5llDtXg8.
I can share A LOT of code with it. Ex: Everytime i start a new project, i just need to import an Auth lib, that i created, and all Auth related stuff is set up.
Everyone in the Angular community knows about https://t.co/kDnunQZnxE. It's not the most beautiful component library out there, but it's good and easy to work with.
There's a bunch of state management solutions for Angular, but https://t.co/RJwpn74Qev is by far my favorite.
There's a lot of boilerplate, but you can solve this with the built-in schematics and/or with your own schematics
Are you not using custom schematics yet? Take a look at this:
https://t.co/iLrIaHVafm
https://t.co/3382Tn2k7C
You can automate all the boilerplate with hundreds of files associates with creating a new feature.
Really enjoyed digging into recent innovations in the football analytics industry.
>10 hours of interviews for this w/ a dozen or so of top firms in the game. Really grateful to everyone who gave up time & insights, even those that didnt make final cut 🙇♂️ https://t.co/9YOSrl8TdN
For avoidance of doubt, leading tracking analytics firms are now well beyond voronoi diagrams, using more granular measures to assess control and value of space.
This @JaviOnData & @LukeBornn paper from 2018 referenced in the piece demonstrates one method https://t.co/Hx8XTUMpJ5
Bit of this that I nerded out on the most is "ghosting" — technique used by @counterattack9 & co @stats_insights, among others.
Deep learning models predict how specific players — operating w/in specific setups — will move & execute actions. A paper here: https://t.co/9qrKvJ70EN
So many use-cases:
1/ Quickly & automatically spot situations where opponent's defence is abnormally vulnerable. Drill those to death in training.
2/ Swap target player B in for current player A, and simulate. How does target player strengthen/weaken team? In specific situations?
>10 hours of interviews for this w/ a dozen or so of top firms in the game. Really grateful to everyone who gave up time & insights, even those that didnt make final cut 🙇♂️ https://t.co/9YOSrl8TdN
For avoidance of doubt, leading tracking analytics firms are now well beyond voronoi diagrams, using more granular measures to assess control and value of space.
This @JaviOnData & @LukeBornn paper from 2018 referenced in the piece demonstrates one method https://t.co/Hx8XTUMpJ5
Bit of this that I nerded out on the most is "ghosting" — technique used by @counterattack9 & co @stats_insights, among others.
Deep learning models predict how specific players — operating w/in specific setups — will move & execute actions. A paper here: https://t.co/9qrKvJ70EN
So many use-cases:
1/ Quickly & automatically spot situations where opponent's defence is abnormally vulnerable. Drill those to death in training.
2/ Swap target player B in for current player A, and simulate. How does target player strengthen/weaken team? In specific situations?
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MDZS is laden with buddhist references. As a South Asian person, and history buff, it is so interesting to see how Buddhism, which originated from India, migrated, flourished & changed in the context of China. Here's some research (🙏🏼 @starkjeon for CN insight + citations)
1. LWJ’s sword Bichen ‘is likely an abbreviation for the term 躲避红尘 (duǒ bì hóng chén), which can be translated as such: 躲避: shunning or hiding away from 红尘 (worldly affairs; which is a buddhist teaching.) (https://t.co/zF65W3roJe) (abbrev. TWX)
2. Sandu (三 毒), Jiang Cheng’s sword, refers to the three poisons (triviṣa) in Buddhism; desire (kāma-taṇhā), delusion (bhava-taṇhā) and hatred (vibhava-taṇhā).
These 3 poisons represent the roots of craving (tanha) and are the cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain) and thus result in rebirth.
Interesting that MXTX used this name for one of the characters who suffers, arguably, the worst of these three emotions.
3. The Qian kun purse “乾坤袋 (qián kūn dài) – can be called “Heaven and Earth” Pouch. In Buddhism, Maitreya (मैत्रेय) owns this to store items. It was believed that there was a mythical space inside the bag that could absorb the world.” (TWX)
1. LWJ’s sword Bichen ‘is likely an abbreviation for the term 躲避红尘 (duǒ bì hóng chén), which can be translated as such: 躲避: shunning or hiding away from 红尘 (worldly affairs; which is a buddhist teaching.) (https://t.co/zF65W3roJe) (abbrev. TWX)
2. Sandu (三 毒), Jiang Cheng’s sword, refers to the three poisons (triviṣa) in Buddhism; desire (kāma-taṇhā), delusion (bhava-taṇhā) and hatred (vibhava-taṇhā).
These 3 poisons represent the roots of craving (tanha) and are the cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain) and thus result in rebirth.
Interesting that MXTX used this name for one of the characters who suffers, arguably, the worst of these three emotions.
3. The Qian kun purse “乾坤袋 (qián kūn dài) – can be called “Heaven and Earth” Pouch. In Buddhism, Maitreya (मैत्रेय) owns this to store items. It was believed that there was a mythical space inside the bag that could absorb the world.” (TWX)
