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What is a Manifold? This is the summary of the lecture, What is a Manifold?, by Dr. Bijan Haney, also known as XylyXylyX. The lecture primarily focuses on constructing a mathematical basis for understanding general relativity, but I was more interested in the deep learning aspect of it. So, do...

Disclaimer This is a partial summary of Recommender Systems Handbook, 1st ed. Chapter 1. Introduction to Recommender Systems Handbook 1.1 Introduction Definition of Recommender Systems Recommender Systems (RSs) are software tools and techniques providing suggestions for items to be of use to a user. In their simplest form, personalized recommendations...

Overview & Disclaimer This is a summary of the book Effective Python, 1st ed. Python 3.5+ contents are missing, as it is written at 2015, but still has great insights for Python programmers. 2nd ed are out, so this summary will hopefully be updated soon. 1. Pythonic Thinking Know which...

Overview & Disclaimer Preface Driving forces for recent development of data-intensive systems Big IT companies handling huge volumes of data Spread of agile methodologies Free and Open source S/W CPU clock speed is barely increasing, so speeding up services depends more on multi-core processing & faster networks. IaaS (ex. AWS)...

Overview & Disclaimer This is a summary of the book Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization by John Myles White. This book is quite short, but it doesn’t mean that it hasn’t got content. The author summarizes useful ideas and insights in kind words for people outside of the field. Note...