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Hiring and Skills

I see: WHY YOU SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE HIRING BASED ON SKILLS https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/rework/why-you-should-think-twice-hiring-based-skills Disadvantages of Skill-Based Pay – USI https://lnkd.in/eHZHu-5 The advantages and pitfalls of the modern hiring process https://mashable.com/2015/01/22/modern-hiring-problems/ The Pros And Cons Of Pre-Employment Testing https://www.jumpstartinc.org/pros-cons-pre-employment-testing

On Effective teaching and Learning and Course Design

Successful Lecturing: Presenting Information in Ways That Engage Effective Processing " Lecturing has been criticized as ineffective relative to other methods of teaching that involve students as active participants in the learning process, not as passive observers. Lectures, though, are a fact of academic life. They are the most widely used method of teaching in …

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Natural Language Processing Resources

Regular Expressions, Text Normalization, Edit Distance http://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/2.pdf Language Modeling with N-Grams http://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/3.pdf Slide: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/lec/languagemodeling2019.pdf Chapter 4, "Naive Bayes and Sentiment Classification" http://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/4.pdf Slide: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/lec/naivebayes.pdf Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/papers/sentiment.pdf Lexicons for Sentiment, Affect, and Connotation http://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/19.pdf Logistic Regression http://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/5.pdf https://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/cs124/slides/ir-1.pdf J+M (3ed) Chapter 6: Vector Semantics, 1-7, 18-26, and review 8-15 …

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Reinforcement Learning Concepts Explained in a Simple Way.

Reinforcement Learning Concepts Explained in a Simple (or not) Way. This is intended for the beginners who want to know the concepts used in Reinforcement Learning i.e. Interactive Learning. Reinforcement Learning is also one aspect of Machine Learning, Data Science, and AI Summary of Tabular Methods in Reinforcement Learning Comparison between the different tabular methods …

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WordPress: Hide Date and Author from your posts

Yes, it is WordPress. Positively, you can think it to be similar to embedded programming (not inside hardware but inside a software) Options: Use Plugins such as 1. WP Meta and Date Remover 2. WP Post Date Remover. The plugins after installing will remove post date. However, you might need to add custom CSS for …

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LDA: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA): Applications of LDA

What is LDA topic modeling? "Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is an example of topic model and is used to classify text in a document to a particular topic" https://towardsdatascience.com/topic-modeling-and-latent-dirichlet-allocation-in-python-9bf156893c24 What is topic modeling used for? "In machine learning and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering the abstract …

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On LDA: LDA and Healthcare

What is LDA topic modeling? "Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is an example of topic model and is used to classify text in a document to a particular topic" https://towardsdatascience.com/topic-modeling-and-latent-dirichlet-allocation-in-python-9bf156893c24 What is topic modeling used for? "In machine learning and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering the abstract …

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Want to become a self-driving car engineer: “12 PROJECTS THAT HELP YOU BECOME SELF-DRIVING CAR ENGINEER (PYTHON and C++ CODE AVAILABLE)”

Want to become a self-driving car engineer: "12 PROJECTS THAT HELP YOU BECOME SELF-DRIVING CAR ENGINEER (PYTHON and C++ CODE AVAILABLE)" Project 1 – Finding Lane Lines on the Road https://github.com/ndrplz/self-driving-car/tree/master/project_1_lane_finding_basic Project 2 – Traffic Sign Classification https://github.com/ndrplz/self-driving-car/tree/master/project_2_traffic_sign_classifier Project 3 – Behavioral Cloning https://github.com/ndrplz/self-driving-car/tree/master/project_3_behavioral_cloning Project 4 – Advanced Lane Finding https://github.com/ndrplz/self-driving-car/tree/master/project_4_advanced_lane_finding Vehicle Detection Project https://github.com/ndrplz/self-driving-car/tree/master/project_5_vehicle_detection …

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Recommended Book: Books covering many aspects of teaching in higher education

Svinicki, M. & McKeachie, W.J. (2014) McKeachie’s Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers. (14th ed). Australia: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. • Davis, B.G. (2009). Tools for Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. • Bain, K. (2004). What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

AI Implementation Platforms: Reinforcement Learning Platforms and Applications:

" Gym: https://gym.openai.com/ Gym is a toolkit for developing and comparing …. It supports teaching agents everything from walking to playing games like Pong or Pinball. " https://gym.openai.com/ —- "Project Malmo integrates (deep) reinforcement learning, cognitive science, and many ideas from artificial intelligence. " https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-malmo/ —- DeepMind: "DeepMind’s scientific mission is to push the boundaries …

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