Instructional Material
Mastering Probability & Statistic Python (Theory & Projects)
In today's ultra-competitive business universe, Probability and Statistics are the most important fields of study. That is because statistical research presents businesses with the data they need to make informed decisions in every business area, whether it is market research, product development, product launch timing, customer data analysis, sales forecast, or employee performance. But why do you need to master probability and statistics in Python? The answer is an expert grip on the concepts of Statistics and Probability with Data Science will enable you to take your career to the next level. The course'Mastering Probability and Statistics in Python' is designed carefully to reflect the most in-demand skills that will help you in understanding the concepts and methodology with regards to Python.
Learning Science Proves Practice Does Make Perfect
Low student engagement with assigned course materials and unpreparedness for class are two of the top pain points for instructors. But, what if you could ensure that every student understood and completed assignments and came to class confident and ready to participate? You'd get back valued class time to focus on teaching instead of reviewing. VitalSource is committed to creating products that are based on learning science, and we fulfill that mission by developing and studying new technologies and partnering with instructors to identify impactful implementation practices. Bookshelf, VitalSource's premier digital content platform, recently introduced a new built-in power feature, Bookshelf CoachMe, that is designed to improve the overall study experience for students by helping them discover what they already know so they can focus on what they need to learn.
Improving OCR Results with Basic Image Processing - PyImageSearch
In our previous tutorial, you learned how to improve the accuracy of Tesseract OCR by supplying the appropriate page segmentation mode (PSM). The PSM allows you to select a segmentation method dependent on your particular image and the environment in which it was captured. However, there are times when changing the PSM is not sufficient, and you instead need to use a bit of computer vision and image processing to clean up the image before you pass it through the Tesseract OCR engine. To learn how to improve OCR results using basic image processing, just keep reading. Exactly which image processing algorithms or techniques you utilize is heavily dependent on your exact situation, project requirements, and input images; however, with that said, it's still important to gain experience applying image processing to clean up images before OCR'ing them.
Neural Language Models are Effective Plagiarists
Biderman, Stella, Raff, Edward
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become increasingly powerful and prominent in society, their misuse is a growing concern. In educational settings, AI technologies could be used by students to cheat on assignments and exams. In this paper we explore whether transformers can be used to solve introductory level programming assignments while bypassing commonly used AI tools to detect plagiarism. We find that a student using GPT-J [Wang and Komatsuzaki, 2021] can complete introductory level programming assignments without triggering suspicion from MOSS [Aiken, 2000], a widely used plagiarism detection tool. This holds despite the fact that GPT-J was not trained on the problems in question and is not provided with any examples to work from. We further find that the code written by GPT-J is diverse in structure, lacking any particular tells that future plagiarism detection techniques may use to try to identify algorithmically generated code. We conclude with a discussion of the ethical and educational implications of large language models and directions for future research.
A Non-Expert's Introduction to Data Ethics for Mathematicians
I give a short introduction to data ethics. My focal audience is mathematicians, but I hope that my discussion will also be useful to others. I am not an expert about data ethics, and my article is only a starting point. I encourage readers to examine the resources that I discuss and to continue to reflect carefully on data ethics and on the societal implications of data and data analysis throughout their lives.
The Bible of Competitive Programming & Coding Interviews
This course is going to be your bible on solving each coding interview question and competitive programming challenge. The content is based on my 6 year experience of struggling to find and solve a wide range of problems and develop the system for mastering this skill. I cover the exact same content that has helped my students' performance skyrocket and got them offers at top companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon and solid results in the International Competitive Programming Contests. We start from basics such as Mathematics Fundamentals: Prime Numbers, Sieve of Eratosthenes, Fast Modular Exponentiation. Then we dive into interesting challenges and gold tricks on arrays and matrices, followed by Binary Search, Recursion and Divide and Conquer.
Practical Statistics 2022 for Data Science with Python and R
Data Science and Analytics is a highly rewarding career that allows you to solve some of the world's most interesting problems and Statistics the base for all the analysis and Machine Learning models. This makes statistics a necessary part of the learning curve. Analytics without Statistics is baseless and can anytime go in the wrong direction. For a majority of Analytics professionals and Beginners, Statistics comes as the most intimidating, doubtful topic, which is the reason why we have created this course for those looking forward to learn Statistics and apply various statistical methods for analysis with the most elaborate explanations and examples! This course is made to give you all the required knowledge at the beginning of your journey, so that you don't have to go back and look at the topics again at any other place.
Is AI The Right Fit For You?
I can try explaining basic AI concepts, but your brain will probably just get more and more confused: That's a very normal thing in the AI world, which is why… If there is one thing you can take away from this article, it's that AI is hands-on, and trying to learn it by theory will not get you anywhere. This means that instead of reading giant books and watching hours long videos explaining fundamental concepts, get into it right away and start learning by building things! WAIT WHAT⁉ I said anyone can learn AI, and now I am saying there are prerequisites to start? Because AI is all about math and programming (obviously)! NOTE: You will be able to build out projects without understanding the math behind it if you are using libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, but it is always an asset to have the math concepts down as they would help you get a deeper understanding of what you're doing .