Episode #24 – Enter the Dragan (aka @draganrocks)

Where we learn all about the expressive power of Clojure running at the speed of raw machine code on CPUs and GPUs.

Main discussion – Dragan 

• Dragan’s blog: http://dragan.rocks
• Twitter account: https://twitter.com/draganrocks
• Dragan’s list of the goodies: http://uncomplicate.org
• Books to get started
  • https://www.amazon.com/Applications-Alternate-Bartlett-Publishers-Mathematics/dp/0763782491
  • https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Bayesian-Data-Analysis-Second/dp/0124058884
  • https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Probabilistic-Perspective-Computation/dp/0262018020
  • https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Machine/dp/0262035618

Finally, a few words of advice from Dragan for intrepid Clojurians:

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend any Java-specific or even Python specific book for ML, since all that I have seen concentrate on the easy part (how to call specific functions) but are superficial on the hard part (understanding particular ML techniques).

The most important advice: there is no way around the math… Moderate understanding of at least calculus and linear algebra is a must.

Credits:

We owe a lot and are grateful to the people that have helped us and continue to support the production of this podcast.

Music: Thanks to youthful exuberance of PTZERY for the intro / outro music The track name, chiming with our show theme, is Melon Hamburger

Listen to more of his work via his SoundCloud

Design: Thanks to the fabulous freelance designer, Lubov Soltan for her work on the logo.

Follow her on Twitter @moolver_sin

Check out her work at Deviant Art

Mixing: Thanks to Wouter Dullaert for all the help with mixing and fixing of the audio

Follow him on Twitter @wouterdullaert