ML-class.org course

hello@nietaki.com (nietaki) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

In the last three months of the last year I had the pleasure of taking part in an online machine learning course, taught by prof. Andrew Ng of the Stanford University. The course is already over, so it might seem old news, but next edition should start any time now. If the topic of machine learning seems interesting to you in any way I can really recommend it.

Google engineers meetup

hello@nietaki.com (nietaki) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:00:00 +0000

This thursday, in the lecture hall of the Biology Departament of University of Warsaw, Google organized a meetup with their engineers, celebrating the official launch of their new office in Warsaw. The event started with Joshua Bloch’s, lecture, which was a treat for the attendees, most of whom were MIM UW students, almost filling the room.

Joshua presented code snippets that don’t do what you might expect them to, by invoking constructs that may lead to unforseen behavior. Majority of those constructs weren’t Java-exclusive and could have been presented in C++ or even python. The well known issues were covered, e.g. String comparison, operator precedence, working with floating-point variables, implicit conversion. But there also were topics I haven’t ever thought about, like regular expressions that match same patterns but differ hugely in their efficiency.

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ML-class.org course

Google engineers meetup