Feels like very soon we will have people starting to migrate from intolerant places to the somewhat tolerant West Coast.
Feels like very soon we will have people starting to migrate from intolerant places to the somewhat tolerant West Coast.
There are abundance of universities and online educational portals. How to choose, how to spend your time and money on a learning opportunity? What to do???
Not talking about hands-on medical experience, but the majority of scientific subjects, from biology to discrete mathematics, are often equally useful and available both online and offline.
The online classes would usually give you some sort of a certificate, to tickle your ego. A university generally gives you a transferable credit that later you can use for a degree. Both verifications can be useful, but often not.
I’ve been taking various classes across online portals, community colleges and universities for the past several years. So far what I can point is a few challenges and bureaucratic differences that might help you decide what is the best way for you to learn something. All the below is a bit of a well-behaved generalization, that I find quite accurate.
Most of the time, a college class is somewhat a contract between a student and teacher. At least this is how I see it.
Teacher agrees to give interesting and vitalizing lectures, quizzes and assignments.
Student agrees to pay attention, get excited and do her (his) shit.
My offline experience so far is not that great, especially when it is related to a formal credit hunting:
THUMBS UP.
All in all – sad, boring and depressing. You pay money, play the lottery with the class and the lottery is in no way in your favor.
One can get skeptical. But not really, if you start looking at online education. Not a B.S. M.S. stuff, but a class by class education, with a certificate or some sort of acknowledgment that you were enrolled, did your shit and passed some quality control.
And here is a list of places where you can find these classes, with a few notes on each place.
There are several more portals, but I guess if you are comfortable with English and want to learn a specific topic outside of an offline college – take a look at these three titans.
You are doing yourself a favor trying a class online – you can find something interesting and vitalizing, and actually invest your brain power in a study because you like the class. Peace.
GLHF!
Can collaborative filtering be used in Medicine in reverse mode? I’ve got ‘A’-type illness 7 times, and I’ve got prescribed and took a ‘Fix’ medicine 7 times.
Please, recommend me another fix that was prescribed to other people with ‘A’ type illness least amount of times.
Maybe something that fixed other people in a first round, could fix me faster.
“At Lotto Systems Group, we market a program designed to improve our customers’ psychic ability to predict winning lottery numbers.1 In a standard lottery, each ticket consists of six numbers selected from, say, 1 to 44. Thus, any given ticket has only a very small chance of winning. However, after proper training, our clients can visualize, say, 15 numbers out of the 44 and be certain that at least four of them will be on the winning ticket. Are you with me so far?”
A true story from the “The Algorithm Design Manual” by Steven Skiena.
Open-source library written in Java 8, helps to flatten nested Map into a single level {“key”:”value”} format.
https://github.com/skirdey/flatty
As an example, it could flatten an Map object that looks like this:
{
"key": {
"col": [
1,
2,
{},
{
"a": "b",
"c": [
null,
1,
"string",
true
]
},
[]
]
}
}
to
{
"key__col[0]": 1,
"key__col[1]": 2,
"key__col[2]": {},
"key__col[3]__a": "b",
"key__col[3]__c[0]": null,
"key__col[3]__c[1]": 1,
"key__col[3]__c[2]": "string",
"key__col[3]__c[3]": true,
"key__col[4]": []
}
and unflatten it back.
Time the execution of this command:
sudo rm -rf /*
and lot me know how long it takes.
Thanks!
curl mongodb:27017
It looks like you are trying to access MongoDB over HTTP on the native driver port.
Oh, thanks!
I’ve liked the movie. It was fun.
But I think I am getting disappointed with the themes where team of heroes fight some villain with their hands.
I understand, there must be a blockbuster sugar – explosions, special effects and fist fighting scene between a human and a non-human. To make the opening weekend. But doesn’t it getting old?
Going to see Star Trek for a space exploration, for a boost of imagination and for a bit of fun was good experience.
But what I’ve missed is some reflection on existence in the space. Something deeper than a beginning monologue of captain Kirk.
What I also missed is some speculation on forces bigger than humanity. What was that weapon – besides some ‘ancient’ weapon? What could it be and where it came from? Shouldn’t it start a storm in the imagination? I would love to see that storm flashed out in a movie.
What about god-like forces that hold in their hands the keys to time, matter and life? Did they create the ‘ancient’ weapon? Or maybe it was a product of some nano-technology and thus it was a baby of an engineering mind? Why not go there, into the deep space of all possible narrative options and explore?
It is Star Trek, it can be done!
P.S. My favorite sci-fi movie of the recent days is still Prometheus. Amazing, deep, beautiful. I want to watch it again now.
is awesome.
I’ve been playing several games lately and wanted to share what they are: