Udacity Machine Learning Nanodegree - Concept - Error - Sum of Squared Errors

• Useful for measuring errors in linear regression
• The goal is to minimize the sum of squared errors

How to Launch Your Startup at SXSW

Did you know that plenty of startup founders choose to launch their products and startups at SXSW? In this Austin, Texas music festival, tech founders can find early adopters, investors, co-founders and more. Here are some ways for you to hustle at SXSW.

Hustle like Uber, Airbnb and Lyft

Uber, Lyft, Airbnb have released their new features and pricing models at SXSW events in the past, capitalizing on the crowd, the demand and the tech savy "tester" consumers of this progressive music and game festival. 

http://www.ibtimes.com/uber-out-sxsw-banned-airport-pickups-lyft-strikes-deal-city-1842492

Participate in a Hackathon or Competition

Previously, SXSW sponsored Eco environment, social entrepreneurship as well as educational startup competitions, pitch events, and hackathons. Participate and get amazing exposures to the tech elites and YC startups, investors who frequent these events.

http://sxsweco.com/news/2015/launch-your-startup

http://www.sxswedu.com/launch

Participate in Release It SXSW Pitch

Participate in a special edition pitch event judged by industry experts at the SXSW startup village. This event is open to all new startups. 

https://www.sxsw.com/apply-to-participate/sxsw-release-it/

Data Science Joke Fun - Data Scientists versus Creationists

Just a really clever screenshot from Imgur. How data scientists data analysts see data versus how creationists see data points. No political view intended. Just a fun image.

Google IO Android Developer Conference Photo Highlights 2016 Mountain View Edition

Women Who Code community group female programmer, women programmer, women developer community picture at the giant conference logo. 

Women Who Code community group female programmer, women programmer, women developer community picture at the giant conference logo.

Take a photo with the giant Google IO logo and claim some bragging rights as an Android fan Google Android geek. at the worlds largest Android Google Developer conference.

Meet the Udacity team and course booth at the Google IO developer conference, android fan festival. Udacity and Google has a Android nanodegree partnership. You can meet the team and get your questions answered here.

Meet the Udacity staff from your online course
and nanodegree in real life at the Google IO

Udacity team at the Google IO 2015 San Francisco

Pokémon GO where to get holiday edition Pikachu

While these super cute Santa hat wearing Pikachu's are limited edition, they are not hard to find at all in any major cities and their town center landmarks. Keep in mind, Niantic uses Google Map API and the augmented reality game studio and its Ingres testers prefer artistic cultural centers. In San Francisco, it is easy to find holiday Christmas Pikachu from Pokémon GO at the performance arts center, symphony hall and city street art, city murals.

Some players have been saving extra Pidgey's to evolve during Christmas hoping for another bonus XP event when XP is automatically doubled even without a lucky egg.

Starting Christmas Day, special event, holiday pikachu will appear with much higher frequencies.

I have been playing Pokémon GO religiously. While I am still only at level 29. I have collected nearly all the Pokémon's in the pokedex only missing the legendary, regional (I got mr mime during my visit to the U.K.), and a couple of normal ones. 142 pokemons!

Expression - Emoji Fist Bump 👊

• Emoji fist bump 👊
• Tech change every day, every day there's an opportunity for new developers
• Emoji ML crystal ball 🔮
• Interesting emojis in app store : emoji pocket jesus

Complex concepts

• Bamboo ceiling : glass ceiling but for Asian Americans :( preventing capable Asian Americans from reaching senior management positions. 
• Anything that's free you are the product. Data monetization

Interesting words and meaning

• Pilot : means first episode, usually to gauge interest, test market
• Lores around the world
• Inner score card

Machine Learning Concept - Cross Validation

• Split data into chunks and subsequently use one part as testing and all others as training then switch to the next set. 

Machine Learning Concept - Supervised learning versus unsupervised learning

• Unsupervised learning : data with no labels

Machine Learning Concepts - Classification versus Regression

• Regression result is continuous
• Classification result is discrete. Often encoded as numbers 0 to 1 to n in Sklearn. For example, having tumor is 1, not having tumor is 0

Pokemon Go tips to find Christmas Pikachu

Have you heard? Niantic the Pokemon Go team released limited edition Christmas Pikachu into the wild. These cute Pikachu's will not increase your Pokedex count but comes animated with a red mini Christmas hat. It's super cute and you can keep it in your pocket unless your transfer it away. Super cute! How do you get them? First you have to be playing the game. Next be sure to find the landmark spots in your city! No.1 tourist spots like the Eiffel Tower? A great idea! The city's architectural wonder library? Probably! Small town? No problem. Google (Niantic's map partner and previous parent company) really encourages appreciation for nature, arts and culture (many pokestops are arts, sculptures, landmarks and parks). Visit your local art houses - operas, symphony hall, giant wall murals. These are great places to find Christmas Pikachu's! In our city -  San Francisco, you can find it near the Civic Center performance arts center and Roots an art collective with a giant illustration mural on its side wall in SOMA.

From 0 to 1 Getting to your first sales on Shopify

You have set up your Shopify store, now what? It's time to get your first sales. How? While there are many opportunities to make sales online (the entire ecommerce market is huge), it's hard to get a slice of the big pie. At first. Here are a few tips for you. My store was featured in Christmas 2015 by UberRUSH (Uber postmate delivery) as a top 50 San Francisco small business store on the Shopify platform. www.at-lotus.com we sell high quality gifts that you often find in modern art museum stores!

Message to fellow sellers
Hi sellers, I just wrote this blog post. Please give me some feedback if you can. This is my advice to future sellers on Shopify platform. My store was featured on UberRUSH San Francisco as a top 50 small business seller. They featured my store last Christmas. 2 of my products reached the top 5 list!Among my tips mentioned in the above blog post, 1. generating noise on social media (using hashtags is very important) and 2. frequently checking and making discount offers in abandoned carts are two top tips that generate the most increase in sales. 

Generate some noise on Social Media

Social media is your grassroots marketing. Spread the word about your products on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Enable store function on Social Media

Did you know that you can sell your products directly on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter? Shopify platform allows you to partner up with the big guys: run a Facebook store and enable Buyable pins in minutes. Don't forget Wanelo.

Spread the words to friends and family

I personally emailed my friends to ask them to consider my store for their Christmas shopping. I offered free gift wrapping, tax discount 10% off purchase, steep discount for slow items... They were doing me a favor but also gained value by getting free delivery, free advice and discounts. 

Use the #ShopifyPicks hashtag

Shopify's social media account will feature cool meaningful products on the Shopify platform. You can potentially get them to pay attention to you by using the #ShopifyPicks hashtag. Do not spam. Play nice.

Post to relevant forums

How did you find my blog post? You likely saw it in the Shopify forum just now. Special interest forums guarantees you perfectly targeted audience, who are also supportive and responsive. They are your most relevant audience. Selling  special skateboard and parts, better look for the best forums. You are guaranteed thousands of visitors and some great feedback if you ask.

Check abandoned carts often

Initially when your store needs time to mature and perfect, customers may visit your store and lose trust, interest or encounter difficulties. Use the Abandoned Cart feature to identify these potential customers, write them messages and offer a timely discount code.

Hustle and don't give up. 

I bought startup and entrepreneurship posters and posted them on my wall. I even wrote XyzName Hustles on my coffee mug. Whenever things get difficult, I get a mini boost from those entrepreneurship quotes.

I live and eat in the Silicon Valley. I write about everything Silicon Valley including startup, tech, learn to code, food and ecommerce. 

101 Learn to Code websites resources

Free websites, resources, classes for learning to code. #CsforAll computer science education for all

This post is a work in progress

1. Google CS First https://www.cs-first.com/en/overview Computer Science education for kids by Google. 
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Social Media Growth Hacking Resources Blogs

If you are interviewing as a social media manager or growth hacker, your interviewer may ask you which blog do you follow on a regular basis. You may want to visit these blogs below and mention them during your interview:

(this post is a work in progress)

• the Unbound blog 

Youtube Creator Monetization: Youtube Tiers

Social media, youtube monetization, influencer marketing basics series. 

• Graphite benefits - 1 subscriber or more 
• Resources: 
• Creator Studio
• Creator Academy
• Support
• Opal benefits - 1000 subscribers or more
• Creator Day
• Local Meetups
• Workshop at Youtube spaces
• Bronze benefits - 10,000 subscribers or more
• Shoot at Youtube spaces
• Channel consultation (phone)
• Become an ambassador 
• Enter Youtube NextUp
• Silver Gold Diamond benefits - 100,000 subscribers or more
• Your own partner manager
• Win a glittering play button
• Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghtP8dXEouE

Khan Academy Machine Learning Class Review

• Video 1
• Academic, professional, jargons, hard-to-understand for beginners
• Gives real world examples, helpful, thorough
• Gives an overview of the machine learning landscape

Khan Academy Machine Learning Class on Youtube

• Notes on Video 1:
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• Classification y belongs to a finite set of choices
• Regression y belongs to an n dimensional space