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The Great Cognitive Escape: Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review. I was recently asked to review Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook. Data analysis has been one of the "selling points" of Clojure as a practical language. A practical lisp for practical data analysis. Similarly, I'd say you had best be familiar with how to do data analysis as a discipline in itself. If...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: May 2015
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Getting sidelined: Computing Science vs Engineering degrees. Engineers: please stop telling people what to do with their own lives. This is speaking to the Computer, Electrical, or so-called Software Engineers out there, but really, this applies to those in any engineering field, e.g. including Petroleum Engineers. 160;Well, why don’t we have...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: March 2015
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Lyndacom for learning computing science as high school students: a review. Lyndacom is ok for what it is, that is, as a quick introduction to topics for what seems to be its intended audience of busy professionals working in the field. At least I think thats their target audience. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). AI and Social Scien...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review. As with my previous post, Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review. I was this time offered to review Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook by Nishant Shukla. It gives you recipes to take in raw data in the form of CSV, JSON, XML, or whatever, including data that lives on web servers (via HTTP GET or P...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: Lynda.com for learning computing science as high school students: a review
http://blog.carsoncheng.ca/2015/03/lyndacom-for-learning-computing-science.html
The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Lyndacom for learning computing science as high school students: a review. Recently, I had a chance to spend some time reviewing Lynda.com's offerings on various computing science topics. The review here is geared towards using Lynda.com with high school students as the target audience. I thought I'd share a few observations. Specifically, I've loo...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: Installing Lubuntu 14.04 LTS with Full Disk Encryption
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Installing Lubuntu 14.04 LTS with Full Disk Encryption. I'm going to walk through, complete with screenshots, my installing Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, a modified distribution of Ubuntu Linux that uses the lightweight LXDE desktop environment and OpenBox window manager. A fresh install gives us a chance to clear out the cobwebs, idle packages that were inst...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: August 2014
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review. As with my previous post, Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook - a Book Review. I was this time offered to review Haskell Data Analysis Cookbook by Nishant Shukla. It gives you recipes to take in raw data in the form of CSV, JSON, XML, or whatever, including data that lives on web servers (via HTTP GET or P...
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The Great Cognitive Escape: July 2013
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The Great Cognitive Escape. Notes and thoughts on programming, Linux, computing science, teaching, student and machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Mounting TrueCrypt Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 Volume on Mac: Read Only Success. Some time ago, I wrote Mounting TrueCrypt Ext3 Volume on Mac: Fail. Wherein I state that TrueCrypt volumes created in Linux and formatted to Ext3 can't be mounted on a Mac. In the comments, DrTebi. The truth is, it does work, but I could only get it to work in read-only. Will do th...