7:00 – ASRC MKT

• Executing gradient descent on the earth
  • But the important question is: how well does gradient descent perform on the actual earth?
  • This is nice, because it suggests that we can compare GD algorithms on recognizable and visualizable terrains. Terrain locations can have multiple visualizable factors, height and luminance could be additional dimensions
• Minds is the anti-facebook that pays you for your time
  • In a refreshing change from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the rest of the major platforms, Minds has also retained a strictly reverse-chronological timeline. The core of the Minds experience, though, is that users receive “tokens” when others interact with their posts, or simply by spending time on the platform.
• Continuing along with the Angular/PHP tutorial here. Nicely, there is also a Git repo
  • Had to add some styling to get the upload button to show
  • The HttpModule is deprecated, but sticking with it for now
  • Will need to connect/verify PHP server within IntelliJ, described here.
  • How to connect Apache, to IntelliJ
• Installing and Configuring XAMPP with PhpStorm IDE. Don’t forget about deployment path: