PredictorX1

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by PredictorX1 3y ago
Language or platform standardization for data science is over-rated. Most often, analysis is performed remotely, and resulting models and other work product are deployed, "frozen" on production platforms. There is seldom need to m
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
This article indicates that the Super Mario Brothers game for the Nintendo console (1987) was the original title in the Super Mario Borthers franchise, but it's worth noting that there was at least one earlier game, Mario Brothers (not
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
According to the BLS, workers earning the federal minimum wage or less represented only 1.4 percent of all hourly paid workers in 2021. Taking into account all workers (not just those who are hourly paid), this small fraction would shrink e
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
Someone once said that "A hundred fools do not make one wise man."
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
"How AI reduces the world to stereotypes" I find this interesting, in that there are any number of A.I. systems other than deep learning and large language models. Contemporary usage in the nontechnical press, though, uses "A
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
I agree regarding training: Police officers are expected to deal with all members of the public, some of whom have disabilities or other challenges which should be accommodated accordingly. Having enough police who are sufficiently trained
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
The variation of the "important variables" lists across model types is interesting. While logistic regression trails a little in test performance, the other two are roughly equivalent, yet all three lists are rather different.
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
What of the unemployment provoked by legally forcing the price of labor higher? Think about it: WHen the price of something goes up, do you buy more or less of it? One might as well call the minimum wage the "ceiling employment&qu
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
This is more of a challenge with newer, larger technologies (deep learning and large language models). The operation of older, smaller scale A.I. systems (rule induction, tree induction, [smaller] neural networks) are much more clear. I&#x2
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
I've seen published estimates of statistical efficiency for a few test distributions for the trimmed mean, but not the Winsorized mean. Can anyone suggest references on this?
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by PredictorX1 3y ago
This is a great way to exercise programming skills in preparation for "more serious" projects.