MidsizeBlowfish

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by MidsizeBlowfish 9y ago
Monetate Labs | Data Scientist | Conshohocken, PA (outside Philadelphia) | Full Time | ONSITE Monetate Labs is currently looking to hire a data scientist. We are a small team (currently two) that are responsible for R&D on machine lear
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by MidsizeBlowfish 10y ago
Ah, right you are! Thanks for correcting my mistake :)
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by MidsizeBlowfish 10y ago
There is also the interesting interpretation of logistic regression as a latent choice/utility model, where unobserved variation in utility is modeled using the logistic distribution. In this interpretation, the sigmoid function arise
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Reservoir Sampling for Streaming Data(austinrochford.com)
1 points by MidsizeBlowfish 12y ago|0 comments
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by MidsizeBlowfish 12y ago
Eliminating side effects is about a lot more than variable scope. One example would be reading from/writing to a file.
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Verifying Typeclass Laws in Haskell with QuickCheck(austinrochford.com)
2 points by MidsizeBlowfish 12y ago|0 comments
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Duplicating Spheres and the Banach-Tarski Paradox(austinrochford.com)
3 points by MidsizeBlowfish 12y ago|0 comments
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Matrix Diagonalization and the Fibonacci Numbers(austinrochford.com)
1 points by MidsizeBlowfish 12y ago|0 comments
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Nonparametric Bayesian Progression with Gaussian Processes(austinrochford.com)
1 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|0 comments
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An inside look at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference research paper contest(statsbylopez.wordpress.com)
1 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|0 comments
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Euler's Formula in sympy(austinrochford.com)
3 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|0 comments
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The Mathematics of Building a Heap in Linear Time(austinrochford.com)
2 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|0 comments
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
This. She worked to accommodate your dream, have the decency to to swallow your pride for a bit.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
I never set out specifically to donate, but every year I end up giving to pit bull rescues, local animal shelters, and Oxfam.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
I was just about to say that this is what about four out of the six years of my math PhD have felt like. (And it's not quite done yet...May cannot get here soon enough!)
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
A PhD worth getting should not involve you paying tuition. Much of the time your tuition is waived and you earn a small stipend (just enough to live frugally off of) teaching/working in a lab. From a university's perspective, gra
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
Just noticed that on my iPad, will look into it.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
I'll put a follow up on some other sequential tests into my list of blog-posts-to-do and let you know when it happens.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
Haha, yes, I am the author. I do have a very formal style, an unfortunate product of too many years in grad school. The SPRT is a nice toy test, but only useful for point hypotheses. There are generalizations to more realistic composite h
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The Importance of Sequential Testing(austinrochford.com)
19 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|6 comments
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There Are Almost No Rational Numbers(austinrochford.com)
2 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|1 comments
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
In addition to the preposterousness of investing more than a company's market cap, I'd be interested in seeing this strategy backtested. Lots of random crap works over short time scales.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
This post is fantastic and the paper is fascinating. I particularly enjoyed his writing: > This is why God, in Her wisdom and mercy, gave us the bootstrap.
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Polynomial Regression and the Importance of Cross-Validation(austinrochford.com)
6 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|1 comments
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
The http://arxiv.org/ is a pretty good source. You can get an RSS feed for whichever fields you are interested in.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
That's great. I had never seen/considered that.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
No problem.
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by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago
OP here, I have actually not read TAOCP at all. It's just a derivation I sometimes use to pass a few minutes while waiting/bored and I thought I'd blog about it.
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Generating Functions and Fibonacci Numbers(austinrochford.com)
24 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|10 comments
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The Median-of-Medians Algorithm(austinrochford.com)
115 points by MidsizeBlowfish 13y ago|31 comments

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