Introduction to the course We will learn about State of the art How to do the implementation Applications of machine learning include Search Photo tagging Spam filters The AI dream of building machines as intelligent as humans Many people believe best way to do that …
Author : Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean Effect : Bankrupcy of the US energy, commodities and services company “Enron corporation” and the dissolution of Arthur Andersen (audit + accounting). Founded in 1985 by Kenneth Lay : Merger of two natural gas transmission …
Author : Mark A. McDaniel and Peter C. Brown To learn retrieve Practice at retrieving new knowledge or skill from memory is a potent tool for learning and for durable retention. Effortful retrieval makes for stronger learning. Delaying subsequent retrieval …
We land at the airport of Zanzibar where we pick up our luggage in the crowd (no conveyor belt, the luggage is just thrown in a room, as it is often the case in small airports), our driver that we …
It is tired that we start the second stage of our journey: the Safaris. In the morning our new guide comes to pick us up at the hotel, we meet him and and our cook (Mr Delicious), they will be …
In the summer of 2015 we went to Tanzania. Tanzania is a large country, very undeveloped but with some amazing things to see. Such a trip requires some organization in order to optimize the limited time we have there. We …
It’s quite difficult to find the right time to visit Vietnam since it rains a lot and when it’s sunny in the south it’s ugly in the north and vice versa. We went in July and we were actually lucky …
Windhoek We left by plane from Frankfurt, the only airport not too far from us that offers direct flights to Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. The ticket costed about 1000 EUR round trip with the Air Namibia. The flight …
In september I had a difficult decision concerning my job and I was looking for a place to go for a week to reflect and relax. I love cold and green mossy places and solitude does not bother me. Faroe …
I’ve been reading stuff on various things since years. Absorbing content on diverse subjects, from 20 hours long podcasts about the kings in ancient Assyria to Standford’s Machine Learning courses. I have always found it challenging to retain all the …