我可以唔可以同一年級學生解釋到點解主成分分析(principal component analysis)係條特徵值問題(eigenvalue problem)?
Wish me luck—I am going to try to explain intuitively to first-year econ majors why principal component analysis is an eigenvalue problem.
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在經濟系教一年級數學並不容易,因為文科出身的學生不會無條件接受數學的重要性。上星期有學生問matrix transpose有何用,今個星期就有另一名學生就determinant問同一個問題。我記憶之中,自己在數學系上課時從來都沒有學生會問這樣的問題。
Teaching a first-year mathematics course offered by the economics department is not easy, because students will not unconditionally accept the usefulness of mathematics. This is particularly true for students with an arts background. I had, for example, received questions doubting the usefulness of matrix transpose and determinant. I have never heard of such questions back when I took similar classes from the mathematics department.
網絡安全專家Mathy Vanhoef今日公開了一個影響*全部*Wi-Fi裝置的漏洞,這個漏洞讓駭客可以在沒有Wi-Fi密碼的情況下解密透過Wi-Fi傳遞的信息。雖然沒有證據顯示這個漏洞已被廣泛利用,但在漏洞公開後相信這只是時間問題。目前的最佳自保方法:
一,連上加密網頁(HTTPS)才好登入網站;
二,最好連上Wi-Fi後登入虛擬私人網絡(VPN)。
A protocol-level vulnerability allows an attacker to decrypt protected messages by attacking the four-way handshake of WPA1 and WPA2. Now more than ever: use HTTPS and VPN!
The sequential write speed of #SanDisk #Ultra #128GB #microSD is surprisingly fast, over twice that of the other 128GB card I have in hand, a Toshiba Exceria 128GB, in the Q32T1 benchmark. The figures seem too good to be true, but I have already repeated the tests 3 times for a total of 15 runs and the results still hold.
「請早夜特替紅減100」這句如果要以英文表達要用多少個字?
“Hiring [for] morning, evening, overnight [and] substitute [shifts], 100 [dollars] off [on] red.”* That’s how many words you need to translate that phrase printed on the left of this taxi.
* ‘Red’ represents public holidays, because the latter are marked in red on calendars.
Bloomberg Workshop
終於搞得成。#Bloomberg
First Bloomberg workshop for CUHK economics majors.