No I think you're misunderstanding my point, which is people (kids and adults) do better when they have more opportunities, skills, high quality stimulus, etc. Yes, passive asocial non-educational entertainment is generally bad — so let's say *that*. Not "no screens; be bored"
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Gemini Pro’s Text Reference Capability Praised
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Gemini Pro doesn't get enough credit for being able to upload 1500+ pages of text to reference (several textbooks in PDF form) and cites every response with a link to the text. By far the most useful LLM for specific learning.
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PANDAS Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Scientific Computing and Data Analysis
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PANDAS Cookbook — Practical recipes for scientific computing, time series and exploratory data analysis using #Python: http://
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Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch Deep Learning Second Edition
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2nd Edition, 746 pages, massive! Modern #ComputerVision with #PyTorch #DeepLearning — from practical fundamentals to advanced applications and #GenerativeAI: http://
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Databricks Data Engineering Books from Packt Data ML
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Databricks Data Engineering books from @PacktDataML 1–Cookbook: http://
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Speech and Language Processing August 2025 Release Available
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Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/s…
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AI transforms content: courses, guides, flashcards, blogs, tweets, LinkedIn, newsletters
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ai can create courses, make guides, turn books into flashcards, interactivity of prompts can include shortcut commands (like continue or option a , b , c, d) , blogs can turn into tweets. linkedin posts can turn into blogs. newsletters can turn into guides. guides can turn into
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Stanford releases free LLM and Transformer learning cheatsheets
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Stanford University released the best cheatsheets you'll ever find to learn LLMs & Transformers! These cheatsheets cover: • Self-attention, Flash Attention, LoRA, SFT
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Building Valuable Skills Aligned with Market Passions
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The sweet spot is building valuable skills that the market pays for and aligning them with passions over time. The goal should be to keep increasing the overlap between skills and passions.
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Waterloo Co-op Experience Led to Google and Language Models
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Happy to chat. Waterloo coop was the reason I got into Google in 2005 working on Language Models.