The 1-2-3 steps to start with machine learning from the very beginning:
1. Python Programming (freeCodeCamp)
2. Machine Learning Crash Course (Google)
3. Machine Learning Specialization (Coursera)
In that order.
Take your time. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
7 baby steps to start with machine learning:
1. Learn Python
2. Learn to use Google Colab
3. Take a Pandas tutorial
4. Then a Seaborn tutorial
5. Learn how to use a Decision Tree
6. Finish Kaggle's "Intro to Machine Learning"
7. Solve the Titanic challenge
Two years ago, we launched Bismarck Brief.
Since then, our analysts have written half a million words on the state of technology, the U.S. government, Chinese industry, and the world.
Here are the 9 most important things we learned about how the world works in 2023.
🧵THREAD:
Pakistan's economy is in a tailspin, going from crisis to catastrophe
The system is coming unhinged
We can see this in the increasing stagflationary forces: growth is rapidly falling, and prices are rapidly rising
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The 13th Century CE, Indian poet and saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha Patam. The British later named it as Snakes and Ladders instead of retaining the original Moksha Patam.
Originally, the game was used as a part of moral instruction to children. The…
thenews.com.pk/print/1114876-…
An unhealthy obsession with the PKR-US$ exchange rate has been driving the economic discourse & policy actions, such that gov communication and policy largely revolves around controlling the exchange rate – also failing at it every single time.
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"(Prophet) Muhammad's (PBUH) economic policy promoted entrepreneurial initiative, efficient distribution of resources, and wealth creation, a framework for creating wealth that lasted centuries."
(Excerpt from Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism, Benedikt Koehler)
The most powerful new fact I learned from @WorldBankSAsia's new collection of notes on 🇵🇰 was this:
our taxation is the most regressive of 66 countries studied by @CEQinstitute 👇
On 26 September, the 🇨🇳State Council issued a white paper on the Global Community of Shared Future (GCSF)
It is the most comprehensive document on 🇨🇳’s vision to reform the global order &
BJ’s most serious attempt to define the GCSF.
What does it say?
Why is it relevant?
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On BRICS expansion day, Global integration unfolded in US unipolar moment of 1990s. Then the US immediately weaponized key networks of globalization - information, banking, supply chains- after 9/11 attack on its homeland.
Multipolar counter-response:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/non-a…
Best books I read in 2022
1. The Daily Laws @RobertGreene
"long term goals tend to generate anxiety...break tasks into smaller bites...have microgoals..what you are after is a series of practical results and accomplishments, not a list of unrealized dreams and aborted projects"
🧵 Western corporations are refusing to go along with the US-Western strategy of decoupling from China — and the militarisation of great-power relations. Is the capitalist class revolting against the military-industrial complex and the neocons?
A THREAD.
unherd.com/2023/06/the-ca…
Dear Cyber Security Wannabe, Here is everything you need to know to get into Cyber Security:
Truth is, no one cares how you learn your knowledge. They just care that you learned it and know it. Here are 37 items that you can learn to get into Cyber Security. I'm a huge fan of…
' The mere belief that one might be oppressed with impunity strips us of the free faculty to avail ourselves of our rights. Fear attacks liberty at it's very source.' _ Francesco Mario Pagona
I spent 20 hours distilling Mental Models into easy-to-understand illustrations.
Here're 10 of them to help you make better decisions 🧵 :
1. Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule):
Simplified: the larger chunk of your results come from a small portion of what you're doing
I delivered a guest lecture to @AliHasanain's class at LUMS last week. I discussed the export trend & related challenges in Pakistan. It was a good experience interacting with his students. I appreciate Ali's invitation.
The following is a snippet of my lecture: 1/n
"Despotic power is like a flood, which, destroying everything on one bank, leaves stretches of land on the other where meadows can be seen in the distance." _ Montesquieu
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