svasan

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by svasan 14y ago
I'd be curious to know if kaggle measures/publishes model performance, model degradation, etc., for the models that the companies/institutions ended up incorporating in their business activities. edit - for clarity.
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by svasan 14y ago
A data dump would not really help because the data could have been influenced by 1) a key company policy 2) specific business activity 3) input coming from another model It is better to a) define the problem, b) collect the data, c) build
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by svasan 14y ago
>> Everything is data at the end of the day. But you have to interpret the data within the context of the business need/requirement. Building a credit risk model is vastly different from building a (personal) insolvency/bankruptcy m
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by svasan 14y ago
Winning a kaggle contest and how a particular statistical model performed under normal business conditions are totally different. (metrics of interest for evaluating the model - how much money was saved, did the model bring about requisite
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by svasan 14y ago
Side note about f.lux. I installed f.lux on my windows XP laptop and it kind of messed up the settings. The funny thing is even after uninstalling f.lux, my laptop retained the brightness settings that were set by f.lux. (Thankfully, it is
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by svasan 14y ago
The ancient Indians perfected memory retention of large bodies of knowledge (called Vedas dating back more than 4000-6000 years) with the help of very elaborate schemes. The Vedas are composed in a language called Vedic Sanskrit (althought
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by svasan 14y ago
> 'interesting trivia' In the above - grammar, rhetoric, logic - formed the "trivium" and - arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy - formed the "quadrivium". Also "trivium" represented the place where three roads would intersect. Pe
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by svasan 14y ago
India has achieved quite a bit with its space exploration. It is the same space programme that has provided Indians with satellites that are applied to agriculture. The IRS-P6 Resourcesat has been deployed for studying cropping patterns [1]