Artificial intelligence has always been something that has interested me, but more in the “I can beat you at chess” sense than the Data from Star Trek sense. Perhaps because the former seems like something I can reasonably design whereas…
Review: Coursera Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Functional programming is one of those generic “scary” programming phrases like “concurrency” or “cryptography.” We know it’s probably useful, but we can usually get by without it. While I vaguely knew a little about Haskell, I wasn’t really sure what…
Review: Coursera Machine Learning
Although not as much of a buzzword as “Big Data”, “Machine Learning” is definitely en vogue. To be honest, the phrase sounds much more exotic than the actual technique! Nonetheless, the area of artificial intelligence interests me so I decided…
Review: Udacity Tales from the Genome (BIO110)
Until recently, Udacity has specialized in technical courses. However, late last year they released Tales from the Genome, an introductory course on genetics. I was a bit skeptical of how the material would be presented, but I was interested enough…
Review: Udacity Web Development (CS253)
When web applications started to become popular, a big selling point was that you could design one set of code and have it run on any internet-capable computer. Unfortunately the front-end of the internet is now so fragmented that this…