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I am currently self-learning biology and I just completed MIT's 7.00x introduction to biology on edX [1].

The course is outstanding and anything but a "lifeless recitation of names". Prof Eric Lander (key researcher on the Human Genome Project) goes through two centuries of research and takes the time to explain how and why discoveries came into existence. It goes from the early days of biochemistry to recent major advancement such as CRISPR/Cas9.

I'm looking to apply my ML expertise to the field of biology and this course was a real windfall, I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre...

1) Adults in the room - Yanis Varoufakis (2017)

must read for anyone leaving in, or interested in the politics of the European Union; the book is a political memoir of Varoufakis' fight against the EU institutions during his 6 months as finance minister of Greece in early 2015.

The people of Greece had elected the syriza government to put an end to the incredibly harsh austerity they've been through during the past 5 years. But the Greek government had agreed to, and was bounded by the terms of the two bailout programs from the Eurozone & the IMF. Faced with a dilemma, democracies must compromise. But Democracy has no place in the Eurozone, as Wolfgang Shäuble, former finance minister of Germany, puts it very clearly during his first meeting with Varoufakis: "Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy".

Three years after the events recounted, this book is still very much relevant, and anyone wanting to understand EU politics ought to read it.

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2) And the Weak Suffer What They Must? - Yanis Varoufakis (2016)

Companion book to the first one, it explained how the Eurozone crisis came to be by recounting its history from the end of the second world war to today. A key book to understand the institutions of the European Union, whether or not you agree with Varoufakis' economic theories. I highly recommend it, as it is very well written, in plain english, with no economic background required.

Cedric Villani (Fields Medal 2010) wrote a book about his work [1] where he tries to give the reader a hint of what it looks like to be a mathematician on a day to day basis. It's quite interesting, even though he does not try to explain his theory.

[1] http://www.amazon.fr/Théorème-vivant-Cédric-Villani/dp/22467...

That's great! However, I would like to be able to add places without the need to be on site at the time of writing (e.g using a geocoding service like Google Maps API)

I suppose it is a way to avoid spam though.

Hi! 24 y.o with an entrepreneurial spirit, just graduated from UCL (MSc Web Science and Big Data Analytics)

I have 2 years experience in web development in Python and Java, working both on App Engine and AWS.

I am willing to work on:

  - Data analysis (Python and R)

  - Machine learning (recommender systems, sentiment analysis)

  - Web development (Full stack Python Java Golang && HTML CSS Javascript)

  - MVP App development (Hybrid apps with phonegap)

Location: London

Remote: Would consider

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Golang, Python (django, flask), Java, Javascript (jQuery, angularjs), HTML, CSS, R. AWS (EC2, cloudsearch, S3), App Engine.

Resume: http://romainstrock.com

Email: contact [at] romainstrock.com

SEEKING WORK - Remote or London

Full stack Python and Golang developer

Freshly graduated from UCL: MSc in Web Science and Machine Learning

24 y.o with an entrepreneurial spirit willing to work on:

  - Data analysis

  - Machine learning (recommender systems, sentiment analysis)

  - Web development (HTML CSS Javascript)

  - MVP App development (Hybrid apps with phonegap)

More info: http://romainstrock.com

As an alternative, you could consider Hugo (http://hugo.spf13.com/overview/introduction), which gives more flexibility regarding the organisation of files and urls.

Slick! I'm curious, how much time and money did you spend for making this video?

Download the resources and you'll be able to take the class at your own pace. There are several tools for that purpose on github. e.g this one: https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl

As a special gift, it's allow you to archive the courses for later review.

Indeed Google Analytics has added the multi-armed bandit approach in Content Experiment. It's quite slick btw, but definitely more difficult to implement than traditional split testing. My 2 cents:

[1] the sample size calculator (How many subjects are needed for an A/B test?): http://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html

[2] <unashamed plug> easyAB: a jquery plugin for easily start A/B testing using Google Analytics. http://srom.github.io/easyAB/ </plug>

Salesforce did.

http://www.thedomains.com/2012/03/15/salesforce-acquires-ano...

OP here. I just came by the announcement of the Content Experiment API [1] through Analytics' newsletter (and I'm not the only one around here), and I'm very excited because my plugin appears to be complementary with it. Support for this API pushed up in the priority queue and will be available soon. In the meantime, use the good old custom variables and events to track your changes.

[1] http://analytics.blogspot.fr/2013/06/google-analytics-become...

This is a simple plugin for setting up A/B and multivariate tests with Zepto or jQuery. Hope it could help tech savvy people build better landing pages. What do you think of it?

Hi there, I may have missed the point but what is your competitive advantage compared with PaaS like AWS ? You should also consider adding a bit of CSS to your website. Bootstrap is your friend ( http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/ )

Some concurrents: http://www.tweetspiration.com/ http://www.twtspire.com/

Still a good idea

Average cost per user per month in 2012-2013 is roughly $0.007[1]. They also achieved a quite high CTR and donation rate with their banners[2]. Do they really need to trade independency and users trust for (hypothetical) billion-worth ads? One should also keep in mind that non-for-profits must spend all their money in the year.

[1] Jimmy Walles on Quora: http://qr.ae/TL1ku [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testi...