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An Appreciation of Cover's Universal Portfolio in Python(github.com)
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by jmount 5y ago
And an older classic in coloration: Turing, The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing...
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by jmount 5y ago
I really recommend taking a look at the "A=B" identity solver: https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html . The accompanying book is amazing.
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by jmount 5y ago
Idiocracy is in indeed the easy case. Notice there is no villain in the movie. Even the sports drink company isn't pressing hard.
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Exploring the Xi Correlation Coefficient(win-vector.com)
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I share some notes on reading/explaining the basic definition here: https://win-vector.com/2021/12/26/how-to-read-sourav-chatter...
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How to Read Sourav Chatterjee’s Basic Xicor Defenition(win-vector.com)
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For those interested, James Renegar also had some great stuff on Newton's method ("A polynomial-time algorithm, based on Newton's method, for linear programming" 1988). It seems there are a lot of great algorithmic oppor
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Show HN: Data algebra, going back to Codd's relational operators(win-vector.com)
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If you love hummingbirds, I suggest https://www.hummingbirdspot.com (no connection).
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In my opinion, that is the thing with theoretical computer science. Many of the ideas are comprehendible. And if one has the opportunity to do the work: you may get the result.
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I haven't seen the source. But I am guessing the anger is temperature is a number that doesn't make since to blindly add. Example: 2 boiling pots are not 200 degrees C. Or more technically temperature is the mean molecular kinetic
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by jmount 5y ago
In the US many companies publicly share their EIN (the equivalent of SSN for companies), and somehow the laws are set up that this isn't a source of identity theft.
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by jmount 5y ago
Good point. But we have brought in so many systems, that the analogy might be: we are routinely using the highway system to move content form one room to another in our home.
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My Opinion on “5” == 5(win-vector.com)
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Using with for Neater SQL(win-vector.com)
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Data_algebra 0.7.0 What is New(win-vector.com)
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by jmount 5y ago
I'd like to share a video I prepared on Kelly betting: https://youtu.be/6xhjbgREGDA
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by jmount 6y ago
I have some notes I share on ergodicity here: https://win-vector.com/2012/02/04/ergodic-theory-for-interes...
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What Is Statistics?(youtube.com)
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When Profitable Betting Systems Are Not Possible(github.com)
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Kelly Thorp Betting Example(win-vector.com)
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Plotting Multiple Curves in Python(github.com)
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Neat. I've been working on my own "piped-Codd" style system I call the "data algebra" https://github.com/WinVector/data_algebra I use method chaining as the composing notation.
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What Is a Good Test Set Size?(win-vector.com)
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Rule 42 Software(win-vector.com)
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Variable Utility is not Intrinsic(win-vector.com)
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The Dual Numbers(youtube.com)
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The Hyper Dance(win-vector.com)
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The Nature of Overfitting(win-vector.com)
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