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Look at the notes similar to the one linked at the end of this website. http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~guttman/cs521_website/index.html

I think this is a very helpful page.



MATLAB is a language? ;-)


The comments are as retarded as the article itself.

Typical western comparison as one commenter put it as.


This has been here before : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795388


Of course it has. Dyson Spheres are famous in SF. The Matrioshka Brains are just distant relatives of the same.


http://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Fermilab_s...

The link above is to a fermi lab program to look for Dyson spheres. The Matrioshka brain is a subset of the Dyson sphere. Something made famous, unfortunately, by Trekkers.


Why is that unfortunate?


Unfortunate because it has distorted the original idea beyond recognition. :) A lot of people know F. J. Dyson only for Dyson "spheres" (the original conception was that of a swarm, SF modified the idea to a sphere, then shell). Though it's obvious he did a lot of other work and that the Dyson sphere was nothing as compared to what he has done. It was just a thought experiment.


Science fiction fandom snobbery.


Perhaps the association to science fiction removes perceived rigor from the idea.


I notice some people above saying that it could be a mistake. I think it could be. But it is less likely that it was.

I say that because Pachauri had been saying for a year that the Indian government was being arrogant by not agreeing to their "findings". And he rejected research such as this : http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/MoEF%20Discu... Compiled by people who have 3-4 decades of experience in Himalayan glaciology.

Please do check that review paper. It is not easy to find.


Agree with you Paras!

Shubhendu here by the way! :)

I was taken aback a little by the suggestion to use the UCI repository with R for beginning ML.

I would agree with your approach, I learnt all my basics from Andrew Ng's course and his course more or less follows what you said. :)


And I prefer the book by Bishop, It strikes a fine balance between the maths and the ideas.


I don't agree with you. Read "Shadows of the Mind", your opinions on him might change.

I don't think being a Polymath means you have to know mutually exclusive stuff. I don't that's possible in the sciences anyway.


Really? ;-)


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