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It was gusting at 33kts. 33kt/hr * 1.15mi/kt * 1.609km/mi ~= 61km/hr. The weather app was right. Just different units.

There was an interesting problem about qanats and excavation cost minimization in the 2015 ICPC World Finals problem set. (Problem H) https://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/problems/i…

You can probably get away with undergraduate degree graduation year as a rough proxy for age. age(grad_year) ~= (2016 - grad_year) + 22

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You generally don't know if you've reached a suitable maxima, which is why it is good to run a nondeterministic optimizer a few times (if computation power allows) and see if there…

Cool! I think this project is really awesome and your blog is full of interesting things. Keep up the great work!

Is there any way to set tcpKeepAlive=true, ssl=true, and specify a sslrootcert (for Redshift use)?

CART forms the basis of the decision trees used by scikit-learn's implementation of random forests [1]. CART may be old, but definitely not outdated. [1] https://github.com/scikit-…

I would argue that an increase in ride-sharing usage reduces traffic congestion.

You're right. But it's already known that the actual dress is "blue and black" as someone found it on amazon. It's essentially the picture that is creating the ambiguity.

I did some basic color analysis here. http://shahidchohan.com/resolving-the-dress-color-debate/

I skimmed the source and didn't see anything regarding leader election. Am I missing something or is this implementation encapsulating some of the underlying terminology/analogies …

One common approach is to look for the elbow in the curve vs K (number of clusters). This is essentially finding the number of clusters after which the rate of information gained/v…

Current UCLA student. I just sent a request. Waiting to see what happens.

I think it is more accurate to say that data science isn't Kaggle. The process of taking a data set and fitting it to the most robust model is certainly machine learning.