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You will find here a few tables of random digits, used for simulation purposes and/or testing or integration in statistical, mathematical, and machine learning algorithms...
Below is my contrarian answer to one question recently posted on Quora. It depends on what you mean by “no experience”. An NASA scientist who has processed petabytes ...
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Back to the basics. Here we are dealing with the oldest data set, created billions of years ago — the set of integers — and mostly the set consisting of two n...
The Waring conjecture – actually a problem associated with a number of conjectures, many now being solved – is one of the most fascinating mathematical proble...
This question was recently posted on Quora: What is a full stack data scientist? Below is my answer. Most answers focus on the technical skills a full stack data scientis...
Updated on Dec 12, 2018. An error was fixed when g(x) is not equal to x, and a new section “Generalization” was added. A link to a large collections of intrig...
The impact of a change of scale, for instance using years instead of days as the unit of measurement for one variable in a clustering problem, can be dramatic. It can res...
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