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Competitive Machine Learning

1. feature engineering (most important by far)!!!!!
2. simple models
3. overfitting leaderboard
4. ensembling

• predict the right thing!
• build pipeline and put something on the leaderboard
• allocate time to play with data, explore
• make heavy use of forums
• understand subtleties of algos, know what tool to use when

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• http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/
  • [http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/projects/ruby_in_100_minutes.html](Ruby in 100 Minutes)
• http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/index.html
• http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
• http://schneems.com/post/28125445535/active-record-deep-dive
• http://typing.io/pricing
• http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/
• http://devboot.wikia.com/wiki/Devboot_Wiki
• http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?version=4.0#top
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html

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PSQL -- PostgreSQL interactive terminal

sudo -u postgres psql -> postgres=#

CREATE DATABASE test_database;

CREATE USER test_user WITH password 'qwerty';

GRANT ALL privileges ON DATABASE test_database TO test_user;

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/**
 * Like, basically PERFECT scrollbars
 */

/* 
   It's pure CSS. 
   Since a quick google search will confirm people going crazy about Mac OS Lion scrollbars...
   this has no fade-out effect.
  
   In Mac OS Lion, the lowest common denominator is always showing scrollbars by a setting.