Experience the revolution at the intersection of hardware and software—and imagine the future
Hock 's rating:
 5.0
On Jul 26, 2014 Hock Ng wrote: Solid Conference San Francisco 2014: Complete Video Compilation
This series of videos recorded at the 2014 Solid Conference held in San Francisco covers topics related to the intersection of hardware and software. The videos are broken down into a few categories: keynotes, companies, machines, society, foundations and tools. The longest videos are about 20 minutes long. These videos should be interesting to anyone who is interested in startups and new ideas particularly in the area of internet of things. Full Review >
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
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5.0
On Jul 16, 2014 Hock Ng wrote: Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5
I like this book a lot because it gives a good overview of what one needs to know for modern web development all in one place without the need to buy separate books for backend and front-end development. Full Review >
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Analyze Big Financial Data
Hock 's rating:
 3.0
On Jun 13, 2014 Hock Ng wrote: Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data
I was able to review an early release version of Python for Finance by Yves Hilpisch....Although I was expecting to learn more financial analysis and algorithms, this book as it currently stands has a skew towards teaching the reader about Python and the various libraries. I was disappointed at the lack of financial ‘big data’ examples. The author covers the numpy, pandas and matplotlib libraries. Full Review >
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Hock 's rating:
4.0
On Jun 12, 2014 Hock Ng wrote: Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data
Overall, the course would be most helpful if you already have some coding experience with Python. It would be a good course for getting a hands-on introduction to machine learning and two popular concepts for working with web data. For those who do not want a “theory-heavy†and “math-heavy†introduction and prefer to hack some code, this is a great place to start. However, some of the explanations are skimmed over and you would need to do more reading yourself from other sources in order to gain a good understanding of the algorithms. Full Review >
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