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The name of the game is staying in the game.

Everything is a skill.

Little & Often, Over The Long-haul
— Dan John

Things that matter:

1. Consistency
2. Focus

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Bouldering grade scales

Font	V
3	VB
4	V0
5	V1
5+	V2
6A	V3-
6A+	V3

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Climbing Drills

• Doubles
  • First lap, ideal. Second, lap drill
• Latch, then wave down relaxation
• Breathing
  • nose only
  • deep exhale
• Positioning
• No hip drop

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1. Review Prompts
   • Summarize in 2-3 setences traditional meaning representation (i.e., video 4.1-4.4).
   • Summarize in 2-3 setences Statistical Machine Translation (MT)
   • Why are Neural Machine Translation systems more popular right now than than traditional meaning representations?
   • Why are attention-based architectures the current SOTA (state of the art)?
2. Discussion Prompts
   • If you know a langauage other than English:
     • What is the most difficult phrase or idea to translate into English?
     • How well Google Translate perform?

• If there is a Google Translate error, what could be the cause of it?

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Review Prompts

1. Word Embeddings

• Why are word embeddings useful?
• What are the inputs?
• What are the outputs?

2. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)

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select f.foo,
  b.bar,
  case
      when f.foo = 'hello'
      then 'goodbye'
      else b.bar
    end as something_calculated, 
    some_long_expression
from fooz f
  join baz b

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#!/usr/bin/env python
""" Print text to terminal in color!
The way of the future.
"""
 
import sys
 
# Define ASCII color codes
BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE = map(lambda x: x+30, range(8))
 

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Criteria for picking job portfolio projects

Employers often have higher value for pojects that are:

• Individual
• Custom
• Novel
• Contemporary
• Domain-specific

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Install Spark

Run all of these commands at the command line (not in a Jupyter Notebook). The command line will have more informative error messages and if we need complete additional steps, we'll get the messages.

Spark is a framework within the Scala programming language. Scala uses the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) so you'll need install Java.

If you use homebrew: