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Notes for Storytelling with data
Introduction: It’s too easy today to generate tables, charts, graphs. There were times when people did illustrations by hand, which meant you had to think before committing pen to paper. Having all the information in the world at our fingertips ...…
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Notes for Antifragile
Prologue: Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes a fire. Some things benefit from shocks, they thrive and grow when exposed to voltality, randomness, disorder, stressors and love adeventure, risk and uncertainity. Antifragile is beyond resili...…
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Notes for Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Preface: Today is the day of buzz words - NoSQL, Big Data, Web-scale, Sharding, Eventual consistency, ACID, CAP theorem, Cloud services, MapReduce, Real-time Driving forces for development in data related systems Huge scale needs effici...…
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Notes for Why We Sleep?
To Sleep: Insufficient sleep is the key reason for demolishing of immune system and increases the risk of diseases like Cancer, Alzheimers, Hearth Attack, Diabetes, Depression, Anxiety etc. Too little sleep swells concentrations of hormone that ...…
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Notes for Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias Confirmation bias is our tendency to interpret facts or events in a way that confirms our pre-existing beliefs. Asking “What information would make you change your mind?”. If the answer to this is nothing then you know it.…
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Notes for The Fearless Organisation
Preface: Today’s world is all about knowledge workers and they need to innovate continuously. For this to happen, they need to be able to share concerns, questions, mistakes and even half-formed ideas. Psychological safety is the key to perform...…
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Notes for an intro to psychology!
Week 2: Rene Descartes’s Philosophy Story of moving statue Concept of Soul/Dual Nature James Mill Idea of Materialism Empiricism Luigi Galvini’s Frog experiment Paul Broca Broca’s Area in Brain related to production of sp...…
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Notes for an intro to psychology!
Video 1: Psychology comes from latin meaning study of soul The science of behavior and mental processes Various schools of thought Structuralism Wilhelm Wundt Functionalism William J...…
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An introduction to neuromarketing!
Week 1: Neuromarketing vs Consumer Neuroscience Commercial vs Academic Multidisciplinary ie Economics, Psychology and Neuroscience Neuroscience vs Neurology Cognitive(Mental) or Affective(Emotional) Neuroscience Traditional...…
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Visual Perception and the Brain!
Week 1: Can’t explain perception which is the end result of vision Perception is what we are aware of Physical Measurements are objective Psychophysical Measurements are subjective Perception of Luminacnce Relative Lightness Mea...…
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The Nervous System!
Part 1: Sensory input -> integration -> motor output CNS And PNS PNS Sensory or affrent division picks up stimuli Motor or effernt division responds to stimuli Somatic nervous system (Voluntary) rules skelet...…
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Brain and behaviour - Regulating body weight!
Week 1: Energy in = Energy out Energy out Physical Exercise Basal Matabolic Rate Diet-Induced Thermogenesis 5 meals a day Food triggers People with you Visual Cues Time of the day Comfort foods ...…
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Computational Neuroscience!
Week 1: Understanding brain using computational models Descriptive models of brain Encoding (Study how neurons respond to stimuli) and Decoding (Important in field of brain computer interface) model of brain ...…
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Good Brain Bad Brain!
Week 1: Gyrus are the parts of the brain visible on the surface between the grooves The bag that keeps the chemicals together is known as the cell membrane and the chemicals themselves are all that is necessary for that cell to be alive. Accord...…
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Fundamentals of Neuroscience!
Course 0: Guided Interaction Key to human brain is not the size but the inner wiring, it’s structure and function Nervous System CNS (Central Nervous System) contains brain and spinal cord PNS (Peripheral Nervous System) contains ...…
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Understanding the Brain - The Neurobiology of Everyday Life!
Week 1: Locked-in Syndrome Diving Bell and the Butterfly Four functions Voluntary Movement MotorNeurons Brain Stem or Spinal Cord Perception Awareness of a Sensation ...…
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Notes for Deep Learning fast.ai MOOC!
Lesson 0: Incredibly flexible function (NN), all-purpose parameter fitting(Backprop), fast and scalable(GPU) made DL possible ?? before any function describes the function in Ipynb Shift + Enter in Ipynb Try things with your own dataLesson 1: ...…
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Design Patterns
Lesson 0: Experience Reuse Obeserver Pattern Decorator Pattern Factory Pattern Singleton Pattern Command Pattern Adapter and Facade Pattern Template Method Pattern Iterator and Composite Pattern State Pattern Proxy Pattern Compound Pat...…
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Notes for CNN for Visual Recognition!
Lesson 1: Today is age of images/video but image/video data is hard to use Computer Vision as an interdisciplinary field Eye as an inspiration for big bang of species Vision important for speciation in the early evolution of the species Mecha...…
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Notes for Deep Learning STAT 946
Lesson 6: Network with atleast one convolutional layer Three stages Convolution function (Discrete Convolution) Detection Eg. ReLU Pooling Convolution vs Cross Corelation (Replace + by - in convolution) Convolved Featu...…
