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(Some) books 📚 I read in 2020, and my favorites

(Some) books 📚 I read in 2020, and my favorites.

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This will go straight to the top of my list of bes

This will go straight to the top of my list of best ML books. Its minimalistic on theory and largely a code repository, hence Hands-On. This is the first edition, which is an important point to make, I got the first edition read 3/4 of it's content only to realize that a second edition had been published, and that I wasn't getting the 'full package', so I stopped and got a 2nd edition (... still ploughing through). A few changes to note in the 2nd edition. 1) Additional ML topics were covered such as unsupervised learning techniques, object detection with YOLO, semantic segmentation with R-CNN; 2) new libraries and API were introduced e.g. Keras; 3) migration of TensorFlow chapters to TensorFlow 2; and many others. The most pronounced changes are in the part II of the book on Neural Networks and Deep Learning. So I wouldn't buy this one today for sure. Details about changes in the 2nd edition can be found here: http://homl.info/changes2
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Notes from the underground, a classic philosophica

Notes from the underground, a classic philosophical novel, exposes the nadir of human consciousness, the wretched nature of human to be specific, however, I think the purely existentialist reading of the book might be misleading, it is soaked with biblical motifs, like the kind you will see in Lamentations, Psalms, and Job. If anything it ridicules any kind of existentialist ‘elixir’, a somewhat apophatic theological work at best. #philosophy #literature

A question buried in an answered question – The

A question buried in an answered question – The soul of two hunters – Nigerians as hunters, and why hell is a bottomless pit

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#Nigeria #gametheorists

The Spirit of an Essay and the 3 Commandments –

The Spirit of an Essay and the 3 Commandments – Mayhem on the Streets: Python Dance, Black Tuesday, et al – The Act of Sugar-Coating Problems – It is Far Too Easy to Become a Monster – A Manual for Dismantling Nigeria

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#Nigeria #endsars

Friends, in this eclectic, 3k words essay, I explo

Friends, in this eclectic, 3k words essay, I explored the implication of scaling in 1) metabolism/biology, 2) business, 3) demography, 4) public health/epidemiology, and finally in 5) economics and politics.

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This is one of the rather popular contemporary tex

This is one of the rather popular contemporary text on modern statistics (i.e. for high dimensional datasets). I have read bits and pieces over the years, and it all finally came to together.

It reads like a ‘story book’, that is, as best as a technical book can read like a ‘story book’. Concepts like bias and variance, under (and over) fitting were handled gracefully. Topics covered include linear regression, resampling methods, tree-based methods, SVM, dimensionality reduction, clustering, etc. For the R exercises, I skipped it. I will probably do a python version, if I can get the time in the future

I also noticed a few things, one was that the moment I read just about half of the book, suddenly I could read more ‘intimidating’ materials on the subject. As such, by reading this book, I have only one regret - that I didn’t go hard the first time I picked up the damn book! #statistics #bookstagram

To summarize this great book and do justice to it

To summarize this great book and do justice to it at the same time will require writing another one. As such, a short review will have to do:

1) It has a ridiculously misleading title especially if you are not familiar with Pope Benedict’s works. When I picked up the book beginning of the summer, I was not expecting what will eventually hit me - a deep and thorough theological metaphysics treatment of Christianity, and this point cannot be overstated.

2) He started by deconstructing ‘belief’ - the content of belief and 3) he used the Apostolic creed as a token of the Christain faith, and then proceed to tease it apart, over some 400 intense pages.

Depending on the readers familiarity with (christain) philosophy, this might take months to read. So it’s safe to say this is an academic theology text. A masterpiece! #philosophy #christainity #theology #bookstagram

Eight short meditations on the unconscious mind ac

Eight short meditations on the unconscious mind according to Freud.

1) Why some folks who are at the verge of a felicitous success finds a way to ruin it

2) Freudian slips (parapraxes)

3) On patients’ confidentiality and curative communications

4) marital psychology or why you lust after your neighbors’ wife

5) on deep, dark, familial hatred

6) psychology of jokes (why we laugh at certain jokes)

7) on the relationship between psycho-analysis and archaeology + how childhood experiences ‘make’ us; and

8) the three blows suffered by the universal narcissism of humans. I am not up to date on modern psychoanalysis to critique this work, but given that it was written by a practicing psychoanalyst, perhaps one could take his word for it, in the mean time.

However, Freud’s (and the authors’) concession to the inconsequentiality of humans - citing Darwins’ work - is unscientific, and ought to be stated as a belief. #psychoanalysis #bookstagram

Goalie Diaries: Notes + Complete Episodes Link in

Goalie Diaries: Notes + Complete Episodes

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#soccer #goalie

Final episode. #soccer #goalie

Final episode. #soccer #goalie

I spent the past couple months reading two extreme

I spent the past couple months reading two extremely complicated (and huge) books still waiting to be completed; only to realize that I have not been having enough fun (when I picked up this gem.) I didn’t quite realize myself until I cracked up while reading this book one warm night and a fellow asked what comedy I was watching, then a long verbal review followed.

Here, my review will be short. First, with such a suspicious title, I will start with the justification for reading the book: ‘the crooks already know these tricks; honest [folks] must learn them in self-defense.’

And I will end by stating that it covers the following topics: sample bias, averages, confounding, and many more — and in an extremely readable version. #bookstagram #statistics

PS: For folks who want to reallllly get into confounding, do the following: 1) pick up Pearl’s Book of Why, 2) read it very slowly.

☝🏿 #goalie #soccer

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#goalie #soccer

Goalie Dairies EP04 #soccer #goalie

Goalie Dairies EP04

#soccer #goalie

You and I know that it isn't the cock crow that ca

You and I know that it isn't the cock crow that causes the sun to rise. And yet we do know that "...the ball fell because the young lady over there threw the ball” even though in both cases, one precedes the other.

It turns out that a robot can't tell a difference between the two, because a robot can't tell a difference between correlation and causation. For a robot to be endowed with this capability, the mathematization of causation, casual inference, has to be straightened out. This is the story the book tell — the algorithmization of causation.

The authors started with the history of correlation and causation. (And the suppression of the latter in statistical field.) This suppression led to the unnecessary obfuscation in the identification of smoking as a cause of lung cancer, which led to many deaths.

They introduce the ladder of causation, which is effectively the spine of the book: 1) observing (this is the realm of machine intelligence today) 2) intervention (What ifs questions), and 3) counterfactuals (imagination: What if I had done X).

The book carefully climbed up this ladder introducing bayesian networks, confounding and deconfounding, back door adjustment, front door adjustments, paradoxes bursted with casual thinking, structural casual models, etc.

Finally, Dr Pearl ended with an audacious prophecy on machine intelligence — AI systems that can think, AI systems imbued with self awareness. #statistics #bookstagram #artificialintelligence

2 shades of save. 🧤⚽️ #goalie #soccer

2 shades of save. 🧤⚽️
#goalie #soccer

Imhotep is a historical figure. He was the advisor

Imhotep is a historical figure. He was the advisor to pharaoh Djoser (circa 27th century BC) in ancient Egypt. He was believed to be a black man and polymath. .
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In this fictional series, I wake him up from the dead to answer quasi-contemporary questions. Here, he made some comments on sacrifice, and the world in Turmoil
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#fiction #philosophy #aphorisms

Theory and Reality tours about a century of rich a

Theory and Reality tours about a century of rich arguments about science. First, the author delved into how does science works? As a social structure, mathematical modeling or empiricism?
The debate between classical rationalism and classical empiricism. The whole gist about the logical positivists (and the ‘grave’ they dug for themselves). Induction, deduction, and what the hell constitute confirmation/evidence in science?
This naturally led to paradoxes and riddles: raven paradox, Goodman’s new riddle of induction, that kind of thing. What more: Popper of course – the problem of demarcation, falsificationism, conjecture and refutations + two solid chapters on Kuhn. Godfrey-Smith also covered theories of explanation (covering, casual, and unification theory) and many other topics.
It’s a nice treat. It reads like an undergraduate textbook on the subject – just technical enough. Might be tedious for a philosophy newbie. #philosophy #science #bookstagram

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