teach yourself deep learning with tensor flow and udacity

Deep learning has become one of the hottest topics in machine learning in recent years. With TensorFlow, the deep learning platform that we recently released as an open-source project, our goal was to bring the capabilities of deep learning to everyone. So far, we are extremely excited by the uptake: more than 4000 users have forked it on GitHub in just a few weeks, and the project has been starred more than 16000 times by enthusiasts around the globe.

To help make deep learning even more accessible to engineers and data scientists at large, we are launching a new Deep Learning Course developed in collaboration with Udacity. This short, intensive course provides you with all the basic tools and vocabulary to get started with deep learning, and walks you through how to use it to address some of the most common machine learning problems. It is also accompanied by interactive TensorFlow notebooks that directly mirror and implement the concepts introduced in the lectures.

The course consists of four lectures which provide a tour of the main building blocks that are used to solve problems ranging from image recognition to text analysis. The first lecture focuses on the basics that will be familiar to those already versed in machine learning: setting up your data and experimental protocol, and training simple classification models. The second lecture builds on these fundamentals to explore how these simple models can be made deeper, and more powerful, and explores all the scalability problems that come with that, in particular regularization and hyperparameter tuning. The third lecture is all about convolutional networks and image recognition. The fourth and final lecture explore models for text and sequences in general, with embeddings and recurrent neural networks. By the end of the course, you will have implemented and trained this variety of models on your own machine and will be ready to transfer that knowledge to solve your own problems!

Our overall goal in designing this course was to provide the machine learning enthusiast a rapid and direct path to solving real and interesting problems with deep learning techniques, and we're now very excited to share what we've built! It has been a lot of fun putting together with the fantastic team of experts in online course design and production at Udacity. For more details, see the Udacity blog post, and register for the course. We hope you enjoy it!
From-http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/teach-yourself-deep-learning-with.html?m=1
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German Universities now all free of tuition fees for International Students

Universities in Germany are now free of tuition fees for all including international students. Yesterday, Lower Saxony became the last of seven German states to abolish their tuition fees, which were already extremely low.

German universities had been charging for tuition since 2006. The measure proved unpopular, and German states began dropping them one by one. It is now all gone throughout the country, even for foreigners.

This means that now, both domestic and international undergraduate students at public universities in Germany are able to study in Germany for free, with just a small fee to cover administration– usually between €150 and €250 (US$170-280)  – and other living expenses costs per semester (food, transport, accommodation, entertainment, course materials and other necessities).

Germans barely had to pay for undergraduate study even before tuition fees were abolished. Semester fees averaged around €500 ($630). It is now gone.

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Free education is a concept that is embraced in most of Europe with notable exceptions like the U.K., where the government voted to lift the cap on university fees in 2010, and tripled the tuition fees therefore. The measure has reportedly cost more money than it brought in. The Guardianreported last March that students are failing to pay back student loans.

Maybe for now, learning German might be the best financial choice an high school student can make.

Source-http://blog.migreat.com/2014/10/02/german-universities-now-all-free-of-tuition-fees-for-international-students/

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Happy New Year from Google for Education

Happy New Year from Google for Education 

Posted by Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast 

Editor's note: As we embark on this new year, we wanted to share a letter we sent to our Google for Education customers in North America celebrating the great work of 2015. Thanks to our entire education community for making 2015 such a strong year. We look forward to what we can do together in 2016 for educators and the world’s future inventors and changemakers. 

Dear Google for Education Friends and Family,

What a year we’ve shared. First: thank you to the extraordinary teachers, students, administrators and others who make Google for Education strong. We couldn’t do it without you. In 2015 you activated 30,000 Chromebooks every school day — more than all other education devices combined — and you helped us grow to more than 50 million using Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and 10 millionusing Classroom.

As educators, you put Chromebooks in the hands of 90,000 students in Charlotte and 84,000 students in Chicago; you moved the entire Montgomery County, Maryland school district to GAFE and Classroom; you improved young learners performance by 19 percent with the support of Google devices at the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy in the UK; and you brought science education to rural Australia using Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and GAFE at John Monash Science School.

And we’re just getting started: here at Google we’re committed to bringing the best of technology to education. We’re investing heavily in Chromebooks and you can expect to see many new Chromebooks created for you in education. You’ll also see new management features for administrators and pioneering Chrome tools like this year’s Share to Classroom extension. And we’ll continue to bring Google innovations to the classroom as we did in September with the Expeditions Pioneer Program — already more than 100,000 students have taken virtual field trips to places like the Great Wall of China and Chichen Itza using Google Cardboard and a phone.

Giving back to education is important to us. Along with offering the GAFE suite and unlimited Drive storage at no cost to schools. This year we contributed more than $50 million, including more than $14M to education nonprofits, $1.3M in scholarships and $21.7M funding new research. With programs like Google Science Fair, Made with Code, CS Firstand Doodle4Google, we’re working to inspire and encourage young people to solve tomorrow’s problems through curiosity, creativity and code.

Thank you so, so much. Your support in 2015 was an inspiration to us. We wish you a Happy New Year, and we hope to continue to do great things together in 2016.

Hiroshi Lockheimer
Senior Vice President for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast

Take a look through our Google for Education 2015 Year in Review.
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A Educational Argument of #NourOdeh to government

We want the government and institutions, but we don't want to pay taxes. We want an advanced education and update but we don't want to change the curriculum. We want to end the occupation wehbe popular but we want formal financing. We want to order and law and penalties apply, but what we have. We want the streets and the law of the walk, but we need someone to grant us a ticket. We want the international sympathy but I don't see anyone in the world sympathize with him. We want to friends in the world from one party, learn from them and give them. We want media professional and independent but not ready to ask the first question is difficult and not ready to publish and achieve real journalist. Can we boycott goods occupation but what we want to support the product hello mud because he's not here. We want the buildings look forward and apartments ttshţb and we want to gardens and its not about impressing us up but not ready to ask for allocation of places we demand not green belt contractors they at least fear God in their job. We want to break free from colonialism but mkyfyyn on one have delusions of grandeur and wants back days his state as the force of colonization. We want a car and mobile villa but we about loans me her constituents and we blame the government for our financial choice.... And as the poet said.... Oh my God oh my God on schizophrenia ؛) Morning is calm and free of contradictions dears.
Original FACEBOOK translated from #NourOdeh Arabic post.
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Australia | Canada | Denmark : Immigration Seminar in Dhaka(education & work)

Australia | Canada | Denmark : Immigration Seminar in Dhaka

Australia | Canada | Denmark : Immigration Seminar in Dhaka

Fill out the form below to register for Immigration abroad Seminar. This is a free seminar and can be joined by anyone who is eligible.

Date: 23 JANUARY 2016
Venue: Hotel Washington,
Gulshan 1, Road 132
Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Call us at 09678744223 for details

  • Name *
  • Must be 2 digits.   Currently Entered: 0 digits.
  • Must be 13 digits.   Currently Entered: 4 digits.
  • Last Educational Qualification *
  • Work Experience
  • IELTS
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Yale Young Global Scholars Program creates Arab Student Leadership Awards

10 Arab Student Leadership Awards will be presented to high school students from the Middle East. (Photo by Amy Shah / Yale University)

The Yale Young Global Scholars Program (YYGS) is launching the Arab Student Leadership Award, a full-tuition and travel scholarship that will be awarded to up to 10 outstanding high school students from the Middle East to attend the program at Yale this summer.

YYGS is a summer enrichment program that brings together talented high school students from around the world for a two-week academic experience on the Yale campus. The program offers six, unique interdisciplinary sessions featuring Yale University faculty focused on areas ranging from international security to biomedical engineering.

“The Yale Young Global Scholars Program is delighted to offer these 10 Arab Student Leadership Awards,” said Ted Wittenstein, executive director of YYGS. “Last summer’s cohort of Yale Young Global Scholars were nearly 50% international, representing more than 90 countries, including many across the Middle East. With these Arab Student Leadership Awards, YYGS will continue to attract the best and brightest high school students from this critical region to the Yale campus, regardless of their ability to afford this wonderful opportunity.”

YYGS combines the best elements of a Yale liberal arts education with its unique residential life experience, notes Wittenstein. Through its Yale faculty lectures, small seminars, and research projects led by Yale graduate and undergraduate students, participants in YYGS are given the opportunity to grow and be challenged academically. Supplementary programing includes presentations by the Yale College Admissions Office and career panels featuring distinguished guests, in which students gain further insight into the United States college admissions process and develop long-term academic and career goals.

In an effort to provide this opportunity to more talented students from the Middle East, YYGS will award up to 10 scholarships that will cover the full cost of attending the program, including both tuition and round-trip airfare. The Arab Student Leadership Award will be presented to high school students from the Middle East who demonstrate outstanding qualities in leadership and service in addition to academic excellence.

To be eligible to receive the Arab Student Leadership Award, students must be citizens of an Arab League country and attend school in the region. They must also complete the financial aid portion of the online application. More information on how to apply, as well as a checklist of application requirements can be found on the program website.

From-http://news.yale.edu/2016/01/12/yale-young-global-scholars-program-creates-arab-student-leadership-awards

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