Alpa Jain has great experience teaching from her time as a graduate student at Columbia University, and it shows in the clarity of her descriptions of SVD and other recommendation algorithms in today’s lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSscbT7JwxY
When I asked at the end of class how many students have used one of the recommended Twitter links, nearly everyone raised their hands, so Alpa is clearly doing her job.
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