Consider a big cake.
A blank hard drive is like a big monolithic plain cake.


During installation of OS, filesystem is installed on hard drive. Its like cutting the cake in several (millions) equa... (more)

Applying a function to both sides of an equation does change it. However it changes both sides in the same way. So for instance suppose that your equation is

   

 and you apply the function tak... (more)

Unless you start a company that is acquired by Google, or build a project that has an extremely profound impact on computer science and industry, it is unlikely that a project alone will get you an... (more)

I have mixed feelings about this...

As someone who got into software development through a combination of online education, learning on the job and my own projects (rather than having a Computer ... (more)

Yeah. I agree with Chris Prosser. It's a crappily asked question.

If you are working in an environment that uses ' (the single quote) as a text delimiter try using two single quotes '' (NOT a dou... (more)

I think you may need to provide more information. I assume that you mean you want to set a variable to the value but have difficulty presumably because the single quote needed in the word is u... (more)

Depending on the subject, I will actually start with what most excites me.

Regardless of whether I choose the lecture or the textbook, approaching what I'm most enthusiastic about will increase m... (more)

Here's a photo of a very popular algorithms textbook, Introduction to Algorithms, also known as CLRS after the authors' initials. I set an old Nokia featurephone next to it for scale.


Thick puppy... (more)

Yes, and in my experience it's well worth it IF you actually work at the course on a regular basis.

The certification is probably a benefit for people entering a new field who need to demonstrate ... (more)

If one language or the other is faster, it's only by a very small margin. The difference is not enough to use as a choice for which programming language to use.

Besides, the way you code the appli... (more)

The Daily Grind.



Most of our adult lives are spent clocking in and out of an office. The majority of us toil along city streets paved with an intangible quest for success, never truly stopping a... (more)

Thanks for A2A.

I have built artificial neural networks from scratch before, but have not used PyBrain yet. However, there is some documentation on the Github page that looks fairly straight forward ... (more)

1-the test dataset is unseen during training, this is the main key.
2-stop training at an earlier stage
3-use reguralization
4-if you have more than one model to train, use train-validate-test data... (more)

There is no 'correct' language or toolset for any given project. There are tradeoffs to be considered and you should consider the relative importance of factors such as:

• Run time performance;
• Speed...

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