Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 10 Feb 2025 19:44:42 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <655acbf6-05e5-69ff-8a44-9f7075aafa2e@example.net> <9f3323c0-5035-1172-e0d9-13ab2544b321@example.net> <651979e3-922f-e41d-8cfe-37ed476e9bff@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7/MhIv3nnbI1cD5ueUw3TQHrBCwxz9q1mAW9GzlUAjhpKyxAvH Cancel-Lock: sha1:yBJLxKB1Q3uNYTK0G7j4X2we2XE= sha256:KTl/QW2HHLImcvnO+5QqbmY0KYoYi8VMToYF8RvngYw= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 2980 On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:08:46 +0100, D wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 22:41:32 +0100, D wrote: >> >>> Some days I think about going back to study psychology, and other days >>> I think about getting a law degree for the pleasure of suing the state >>> when I can, but I can do that without a law degree, so why bother? >> >> I gave it some thought years ago but I would have to move and that's >> not happening. >> >> > Isn't it possible to go to school remotely? I think this would not be > impossible in sweden. At most you probably have to show up in person > once or twice a year or so. It is, and I have taken several courses remotely. If you poke around there are quite a few offerings that are free to audit. I'm currently doing a ML course from Duke. Like IRL courses some are much better than others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy I'm using that as a brush up on linear algebra. ML depends on it but most ML tutorials gloss over the underlying math. Numpy, Sci-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and the like handle the grunt work but if you're curious yu need some familiarity with linear. Like differential equations I haven't had a need for it for 50 years or more so a review helps.