Book notes – Prisoners of Geography

Author : Tim Marshall Geopolitics looks at the ways in which international affairs can be understood through geographical factors:Climate, demographics, cultural regions, and access to natural resources. China and India never have fought each other. Why? Because between them is the highest mountain range in the world. Leaders, ideas, technology, Read more…

1 Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals w1

Notes for the Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals course. https://www.coursera.org/learn/gcp-big-data-ml-fundamentals/home/welcome https://console.cloud.google.com WEEK 1 1. Google Cloud Architecture -2. Abstract away scaling, infrastructure -1. Process, store, and deliver pipelines, ML models, etc. -0. Auth 2. Creating a VM on Compute Engine 2.1 Setting up the VM https://cloud.google.com Read more…

ML 00 : Course Summary

Summary of course topics Supervised learning – labeled data Linear regression Logistic regression Neural networks Support vector machines Unsupervised learning – unlabeled data K-means PCA Anomaly detection Special applications/topics Recommender systems Large scale machine learning Advice on building machine learning systems Bias and variance Regularization What to do next when developing a Read more…