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Math Rocks – how to place equations into your WordPress Posts
In experimenting with math and WordPress I discovered two different methods for embedding readable equations into my text. One plugin is called Optimized LaTex and it allows me to write LaTex within...
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Introduction to Probability; Free Dartmouth eBook
Introduction to Probability is one of those books that is immediately graspable. It is one of those book you wish the rest of text books could be like. It has clear examples and very understandable...
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Two more free science books
Many thanks to the @MathematicsProf for posting these two books this morning! The first book is about mathematical concepts concerning space. It is from CalTech and I’d suggest even young students to...
View ArticleTutorial on Singular Value Decomposition
In working up an implementation of Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis for Cicayda I’ve had to review some techniques. Some of the review has involved finding tutorials and how-to articles....
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Why Noise Control is so important to Big Data
The Only Principle that Matters in Unstructured Analysis There is a principle which I consider to be the most important in any analytic work. Noise control must be made a priority before any analytic...
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Were the Russian Meteor and 2012 DA14 Asteroid Unrelated Events?
This question came up shortly after Russia was struck by a large meteor that caused 1,200 injuries. DA14′s close pass was a once in 40 years event. The Chelyabinsk meteor was a once a century event....
View ArticleIndiscreet: When your typical Bayes Classifier just won’t cut it
I was faced with a problem recently. I had to detect a class of document that was screwing up my NLP pipeline. My log file was getting filled with ominous notes about files that were taking 7000%...
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Floating Points and Prediction Accuracy
There is an interesting chicken and egg issue with data scientists; which came first the statistician or the programmer? See, no one is just born a data scientist. They find themselves in this position...
View ArticleGreat video; Pi is not Infinite
This discourse on irrational numbers and Pi is extremely entertaining and somewhat informative. It won’t apply to most viewers of this website but Its a great one to pass along. Enjoy! Anti-Pi Rant: Pi...
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