My Facebook Page #Not – curated by @koqoo

"Εἰς τοιαύτην ὄντες ἀθλίαν κατάστασιν, στερημένοι ἀπὸ ὅλα τὰ δίκαιά μας, μὲ μίαν γνώμην ὁμοφώνως ἀπεφασίσαμεν νὰ λάβωμεν τὰ ὅπλα καὶ νὰ ὁρμήσωμεν κατὰ τῶν τυράννων.

Software developers and programmers take home an average Brazilian salary of around 1,800 USD per month (and up to 4,400 USD per month in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro for more experienced tech professionals), while the US’ average monthly income for those job titles is around 7,957 USD per month.

At the start of the 1950s, Bristol Cream was the best selling sherry in the world – which in many markets it still is until this very day. It has been sold on such a massive scale that later the entire category of sweet / blended sherries was called Cream sherry (and not the other way round as you may think).

Every machine learning student knows about the MNIST dataset. Fewer know what the acronym stands for. In fact, we had to look it up to be able to tell you that the M stands for Modified, and NIST stands for National Institute of Standards and Technology. Now you probably know something that an average machine learning expert doesn’t!

Greedy solutions The simple hill climbing solution where we only go upwards is often said to be a greedy method: it greedily optimizes the short term gain and refuses to incur some temporary loss even if it would lead to better long-term gain.