Free resources is a celebrated series with reviews, classes, courses and interviews that have two things in common: they’re free (can be tremendously valuable) and they come suggested by your fellow readers. You can only find them on this blog. No one else does anything like this.
So let’s get started the year:
Dark Matter of the Mind
with Daniel Everett, anthropologist, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University. Link here
From the description of this course:
- Why the ‘dark matter of the mind’ shapes our ideas and attitudes.
- How epigenetics undermines the idea of genetic determinism.
- The flaws in the thinking behind universal archetypes, language and myths.
- Why neural flexibility is the key for our species’ success.
- The evolutionary importance of our relationships with animals
- How language functions as a cultural tool.
- What it means to have a sense of self.
- How we should imagine the mind as part of the body…
Introduction to Big Data (from Microsoft)
Starts today ! January 9th, 2019 !
Instructor: Graeme Malcolm,Senior Content Developer, Microsoft Learning Experiences
Introduction to Machine Learning
Started Jan. 6th, over 8 Million enrolled.
This course is offered by Stanford. Approx. 56 hours to complete.
From course description: you”ll learn Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural NetworkMachine Learning (ML) Algorithms, Machine Learning.
Link (it’s on Coursera)
Intro to Python: Fundamentals
Starts Jan. 9th. Link
What you’ll learn
- Python 3 fundamentals
- Strings and List manipulation
- Methods to Iterate through strings, lists and ranges
- Creating, reading and writing to files
Introduction to Python: Absolute Beginner
Started today, Jan 9th, also. Effort: same as previous course (3-4 hours weekly).
From the course description:
What you’ll learn: (from this course description)
- Using Python in Jupiter Notebooks
- Gathering input and manipulating input/output
- Building reusable Functions with parameters and return values
- Decisions and repetition using conditional statements and loops
We thank reader Conrad for these tips.
And a fun video from me:
Thank you for these courses.