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PredictorX1

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    Comment #38070145

    Language or platform standardization for data science is over-rated. Most often, analysis is performed remotely, and resulting models and other work product are deployed, "frozen" …

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    Comment #38057945

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    Comment #38032856

    This article indicates that the Super Mario Brothers game for the Nintendo console (1987) was the original title in the Super Mario Borthers franchise, but it's worth noting that t…

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    Comment #38004142

    According to the BLS, workers earning the federal minimum wage or less represented only 1.4 percent of all hourly paid workers in 2021. Taking into account all workers (not just th…

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    Comment #37969765

    Someone once said that "A hundred fools do not make one wise man."

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    Comment #37965724

    "How AI reduces the world to stereotypes" I find this interesting, in that there are any number of A.I. systems other than deep learning and large language models. Contemporary usa…

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    Comment #37960176

    I agree regarding training: Police officers are expected to deal with all members of the public, some of whom have disabilities or other challenges which should be accommodated acc…

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    Comment #37951196

    The variation of the "important variables" lists across model types is interesting. While logistic regression trails a little in test performance, the other two are roughly equival…

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    Comment #37951011

    What of the unemployment provoked by legally forcing the price of labor higher? Think about it: WHen the price of something goes up, do you buy more or less of it? One might as wel…

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    Comment #37945415

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    Comment #37945289

    This is more of a challenge with newer, larger technologies (deep learning and large language models). The operation of older, smaller scale A.I. systems (rule induction, tree indu…

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    Comment #37942732

    I've seen published estimates of statistical efficiency for a few test distributions for the trimmed mean, but not the Winsorized mean. Can anyone suggest references on this?

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    Comment #37942675

    This is a great way to exercise programming skills in preparation for "more serious" projects.