Tag: educational
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Artificial Intelligence Philosophy
What are your thoughts on the concept of a “weak” or “strong” artificial intelligence? And what would the implications of that be? More importantly: how do we define intelligence
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Recommender Systems
Recommender systems are integral parts of our lives now, and they have been for decades already. You might already know it as “the algorithm” and it decides what you see on YouTube or Pinterest or even your JetPack reader. In order for them to be effective, it’s common sense to make sure your algorithm ensures…
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Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
This is a quick primer on linear algebra and differential equations, and it provides a few basic definitions and a visual example.
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Clarifying confusing linguistic terminology
So perhaps this is something you’ve never thought about: how come we make the distinction between letters and punctuation marks?
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More than words
Language is arguably what makes us human. Any Google search will yield millions of writings from people of all occupations— distinguished linguists, biologists, and even philosophers— confirming this finding.
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Phonetics
One of the great discoveries of linguistics is that all languages use the same set of building blocks.
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Ancient African Feminism
African women in history were afforded rights that women in other places were not, which enabled them to rise to success in multiple areas.
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Science in classical Africa
The history of human scientific advancement is littered with contributions from societies from around the world, yet Africans strangely rarely get credited in this affair.
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Nodes, Kirchhoff’s Current Law and Closed Loops
Starting at an arbitrarily selected node, trace a closed path in a circuit and return to the original node without passing through any intermediate node more than once. The loops, a, b, c, and d are partial of the closed loops in the circuit.