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Aksakal

District of Columbia, DC, United States

I'm fascinated with randomness in all its manifestations from quantum mechanics to quantitative finance.

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Line of best fit does not look like a good fit. Why?
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Why use gradient descent for linear regression, when a closed-form math solution is available?
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Why the sudden fascination with tensors?
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What is a data scientist?
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Are residuals “predicted minus actual” or “actual minus predicted”
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Why doesn't regularization solve Deep Neural Nets hunger for data?
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Does a “Normal Distribution” need to have mean=median=mode?
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White Noise in Statistics
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Why was the letter Q chosen in Q-learning?
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Approximate $e$ using Monte Carlo Simulation
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Are your chances of dying in a plane crash reduced if you fly direct?
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What does entropy tell us?
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Does no correlation imply no causality?
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Why should I be Bayesian when my model is wrong?
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What does it mean for a linear regression to be statistically significant but has very low r squared?
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Is it cheating to drop the outliers based on the boxplot of Mean Absolute Error to improve a regression model
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Probability of being born on a leap day?
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What algorithm should I use to detect anomalies on time-series?
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What's a real-world example of “overfitting”?
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Does a uniform distribution of many p-values give statistical evidence that H0 is true?
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Intuitive explanation of convergence in distribution and convergence in probability
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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?
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In statistics, should I assume $\log$ to mean $\log_{10}$ or the natural logarithm $\ln$?
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How did scientists figure out the shape of the normal distribution probability density function?
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Who Are The Bayesians?
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Artificial gravity on rotating spaceship?
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Is ArXiv popular in the statistics community?
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Negative binomial distribution vs binomial distribution
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Does correlation = 0.2 mean that there is an association “in only 1 in 5 people”?
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Continuous generalization of the negative binomial distribution
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