Mar 24, 2021

Best of Last week 📆

By Apoorv Tyagi • Issue #7 • View online

Welcome to another issue of The Trojan’s weekly newsletter 🗞

Here we are again, Issue 7 of this newsletter and this time I am going slightly change the format.

🔗 I will share some links from the last week to the articles/videos/tweets that I found really interesting and I am sure you’ll love them too.

So let’s begin ⏬

1. Monte Hall Paradox☯

The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, which is more like a probability puzzle.

The problem statement goes like this 👇

Assume that a room is equipped with three doors. Behind two are goats🐐, and behind the third is a new car 🚗

You are asked to pick a door, and will win whatever is behind it. Let’s say you pick door 1.

Before the door is opened, however, someone who knows what’s behind the doors opens one of the other two doors, revealing a goat, and asks you if you wish to change your selection to the third door (i.e., the door which neither you picked nor he opened).

The Monty Hall problem is deciding whether you do it or not.

If you think that you have the same opportunity to win no matter what decision you make, then without even thinking twice you should checkout Jose‘s thread below.

I am sure you’ll be surprised after knowing the correct answer🤯

Jose Jorge

@josejorgexl

Let's have a little talk about the Monty Hall "paradox"

Do you know it?

Whatever your answer is, this thread might interest you

It won't be lengthy... So, let's get started

🧵 👇

12:17 AM - 18 Mar 2021

2. Chamath Palihapitiya's take on various important pieces 🛑

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. He was also an early senior executive at Facebook.

🗣 During his interview at Stanford, he discussed how money is an instrument of change, social media’s affect on our society & capitalism etc. There are lot of learnings for me personally in it.

It’s a one hour long interview but if one important part I want you to watch is at Timestamp - 21:23 where he discusses how all of us are being programmed. He told how back in early days of Facebook a lot of people knew how this whole social media thing will turn out.

Just spend those 5 minutes watching that part, if not the whole interview. It is just amazing 💪

Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change

3. Deep Learning: when and why is it useful? 🤖

Have you ever wondered WHY do we need deep learning when we already had algorithms like decision tree, linear regression etc.?

OR When will a neural network will be your best choice to make predictions on any data?

If you have ever intrigued by these question then I recommend you to check this blog post out by Madeline.

In this 10 minute read, you will learn about so many cool things about neural network 🧠

If you’re someone starting out with Machine Learning, then I highly recommend you to read it once.

Deep Learning: when and why is it useful?

Deep learning, neural networks, ANNs, CNNs, RNNs—What does it all mean? And why would we want to use deep learning when a decision tree or linear regression works just fine? Well, the short answer is, we wouldn’t. If your simple machine learning appr…

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4. Nullish Coalescing Operator (??) vs Logical OR (||)

Also yesterday, I published a new blog where I have explained the basic difference between a Nullish Coalescing operator and Logical OR in Javascript 💻

And why I wrote about it is because I got multiple responses when a published a tweet and a post on LinkedIn about the nullish coalescing operator saying that “We already have OR operator to do that”, which is incorrect.

I have also explained how combining the nullish coalescing operator with optional chaining operator prove to be a powerful novelty in some cases.

JavaScript -Better way to check for "Nullish" Value Only!

When should you use ?? (nullish coalescing) and when || (logical OR)?

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5. Finally a Meme 😜

Jagdish Patil

@jagdishpatil02

@apoorv__tyagi When somebody talks about NFT

Apoorv with his blog: https://t.co/M3ZZv9Op3Z

12:24 AM - 20 Mar 2021

And yeah, I checked my twitter timeline for this month and more than 50% of my tweets are filled with writings related to NFT and Jagdish was very kind enough to observe it and make a meme about it 😜

The text in the image roughly translates to “I… I Know everything. I am an expert” (In a very excitement tone) 🤣

👋 That’s it for this week. I hope you enjoyed it.

If you have more suggestions on how can I make this newsletter better for you, I’d love to hear about them as well.

See you on the Internet next Wednesday!

-Apoorv;

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