I continued to look for free materials on Python 3 with AI/machine learning applications. While it’s definitely possible to find and gobble together a string of free resources, it didn’t really work for me and I felt I was spending a lot of time just doing so. I decided to enroll in the Udacity nano degree program on AI programming with Python. After I confirmed that we were going to learn Python 3 specifically and […]
Ever since Back to the Future, I have fantasized of owning a motorized skateboard. Today is the day! I’ve been eyeing the Boosted Board electric skateboard for a few years now. They only came in a long board format, but earlier this year, they released the Mini and I pulled the trigger last week. Check out the full unboxing video here. Not included in the video are screenshots of the Boosted iphone app below. The […]
I have fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming an M.I.T. graduate!!! Kidding, it’s only a certificate, but it was a fun experience. I enrolled in the Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy online course at M.I.T. I really enjoyed the course. It was a 6 week course, outline below: Module 1: An introduction to artificial intelligence (history, collective intelligence, how to gain strategic advantage Module 2: Machine learning in business (how ML can be be applied […]
I came across IBM Watson’s natural language demo site and played around with it a bit. Watson can be tested by entering any text or url link to get his take on sentiment analysis, emotion, keywords, semantic parsing and more. Here I had Watson analyze the Gettysburg address: NLP is pretty good at sentiment and emotion analysis and is regularly used to monitor a company’s reputation, for example. In legal, we have been using NLP […]
In my search for good online coding courses, I came across this very helpful guide/review and was curious to see Udacity’s platform, so I decided to take a look at this free course. Right off the bat, the style is completely different than Codecademy. It was more about identifying a problem and using google searches to identify applicacle coding functions. It also uses the Python program, rather than an in-platform design. This is good because […]
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