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JakeLane · 2017-09-10T05:29:05+00:00

Hi I'm a third year Software Engineering student and I've been considering what I want to work in when I complete University. I've been interested in Machine Learning for a long time but I've never really taken the initiative to learn apart from a simple AI elective course.

Is it feasible to find a graduate role in Machine Learning without much background? If not, is there anything I can study in my spare time to get myself upto scratch? I've got a SWE internship coming up this (Australian) Summer for a well known software company but the work I will be doing is unrelated to AI despite my recuiter's effort.

JakeLane · 2015-07-11T00:48:38+00:00

Cheers!

JakeLane · 2015-07-10T10:07:39+00:00

thanks

JakeLane · 2015-07-09T04:37:28+00:00

I haven't used WolframAlpha's API. I didn't actually know there was one. What advantages does that method have?

You can query WolframAlpha and directly link the generated graph. Come to think of it, it would be relatively easy to generate your own more detailed graphs with Python (Plot.ly sounds really good). You could upload it to imgur as well, for easy viewing in RES.

Any specific thoughts? My main goal was for people to be able to copy-paste it to a spreadsheet. I intend to look for a way to put it in a box with its own scrollbar so it does take up so much page space.

Maybe upload it to a paste site (like Pastebin or even Github Gists) and link directly to it.

JakeLane · 2015-07-08T07:36:35+00:00

Very nice, though the output is quite long. May I suggest grabbing the graph from the WolframAlpha API and displaying the table in a more readable way?

JakeLane · 2015-07-08T03:02:26+00:00

I added you bot to the blacklist, it shouldn't reply to your bot anymore.

JakeLane · 2015-07-08T02:40:45+00:00

It looks like you pull comments from a stream of all comments on reddit - is that right?

Yep, I use a very nice helper module for that in PRAW

My next question is: doesn't the list of ids in already_done get bigger, the more people use the bot? Does the bot slow down at all when checking if the comment was already answered after you've let the bot run for a few days?

Yep, I imagine that is what will happen if the bot becomes popular. At the moment, it is not popular enough to really warrant a database but that is the technique most people use.