A couple of days ago I decided that doing my graduation thesis on a topic that, when suggested, brought a sparkle to my mentor’s eye and made him suggest I might want to think about picking a co-mentor just wasn’t hard enough – so I decided to do the whole thing in Haskell. I want [...]

Last night I was consumed with watching lessons from the online machine learning class at Stanford. The topic was neural networks, or rather the finer points of forward and back propagation. Every time I have wanted to learn how neural networks work it just didn’t click. Anyone I asked mostly just waved their hands and [...]

There is probably a trend where I make a post about education every year around October, January and June. It corresponds nicely with the school year and how exams are laid out. But this time the post is going to be different: this is not a rant this does not propose a solution this is [...]

Image via Wikipedia Seriously why aren’t there more teachers in the world? What a bunch of charlatans. But I’m getting ahead of myself in this story. Last week I was doing a lot of freelancing as a teacher and instructor in the dark arts of programming. There was this kid who desperately wanted to get [...]