Introduction to Deep Learning This is the first course in Coursera’s Deep Learning Specialization. I will try to summarize the major topics presented in each week of each course in a series of posts. The purpose of this is to both deepen my own understanding by explaining, but also to help people who have not taken the specialization. Hopefully, these posts will inspire you to do so. This week’s topics are: ...
VSCode is very popular A lot of people like VSCode, 74% of respondents in StackOverflow’s 2022 Developer Survey said that VSCode is the IDE that they’ve used in the past year and also plan to keep using it. Why is VSCode liked so, and what do people like about it is not the focus of the post; but for sure it has to do with its extendable functionality, much of which comes from extensions. ...
This is a working paper with Anaïs Fabre, Tomas Larroucau, Christopher Neilson and Ignacio Rios. The paper explores how information and beliefs have an effect on outcomes within the tertiary education market in Chile, which is a centralized college admissions system. The paper includes two waves of surveys done in 2019 and 2020 and an RCT done in 2021 with both government and NGOs. The abstract is below, and you can find the latest version of the working paper here. ...