<div dir="ltr">Dear Tanya,<div>I'm currently teaching myself machine learning. At first I am using mathematica. Now I am learning more about python and setting up scikit learn. I could probably give a 15-30 minute presentation on how to set this up on a laptop and run the basic tests so that you can use Jupiter with this. I haven't gotten as far as setting up theano but I think that would be better for another workshop / presentation.</div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Joshua Herman</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:25 PM Tanya Schlusser <<a href="mailto:tanya@tickel.net">tanya@tickel.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">It's pretty cool. I projected it at python office hours. It's written<br>
following from discussions in a paper on lessons learned from teaching<br>
python to geophysics students I think? I may be mis-remembering that part.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're rememering right -- <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05425" target="_blank">this is the paper</a> and the tl;dr is that these geology professors literally guinea pigged their students for 5 years trying out different teaching styles (lecture + lab | lecture in lab | self-taught via MOOC | etc...) and mesured student satisfaction, instructor effort, and actual learning.</div><div><br></div><div>The self-taught sucked, with 50% comprehension and students reviewing the course badly. All other forms had about 70% comprehension with varying levels of teacher effort and student satisfaction. The IPython notebook execution in-class + lecture got the highest student ratings and were the least instructor effort -- a major win.</div><div><br></div><div>The <a href="https://github.com/jupyter/try.jupyter.org" target="_blank">try.jupyter.org project is open source</a>, so you too can host your own notebook server (launched using Docker images) or you can make your own community. <a href="https://github.com/jupyter/docker-demo-images" target="_blank">This is the repo for adding community notebooks</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also -- O'Reilly may be embracing them. Here is a lecture Support Vector Machines given @ Pycon 2015 made in collaboration with Jake Vanderplas and O'Reilly:</div><div><a href="https://beta.oreilly.com/learning/intro-to-svm" target="_blank">https://beta.oreilly.com/learning/intro-to-svm<br></a></div><div><a href="https://beta.oreilly.com/learning/intro-to-svm" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div>This is the future of education (and possibly dashboarding?) woo-hoo!</div><div><br></div><div>Another alternative is <a href="http://www.skulpt.org/" target="_blank">skulpt</a>...a pure javascript implementation of (a large chunk of) Python 2...here's the link to an online Python textbook with executable code using Skulpt:</div><div><a href="http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html" target="_blank">http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html<br></a></div><div><a href="http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/thinkcspy/index.html" target="_blank">-</a>-- from Josh ---</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Actually now that i remember it is in a notebook. Google hosts one on<br>
github.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/google/deepdream" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/google/deepdream</a><br>
I think we should do like a pyladies event about this if we can get it<br>
working.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That would be awesome!!! looking into it... </div></div></div></div>
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