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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

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Given those two, plus SQL gaining eminence as a database strategy, a decidedly relational picture coalesced throughout the decade. Andrew Ng later described this strategy as the “Virtuous Cycle of AI” – a.k.a. My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

The problem with this approach is that in highly imbalanced sets it can easily lead to a situation where most of the data has to be discarded, and it has been firmly established that when it comes to machine learning data should not be easily thrown out (Banko and Brill, 2001; Halevy et al., Their tests are performed using C4.5-generated

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. Then rethink your hiring strategies w.r.t. Public Health Reports (2017-07-10). Have you run any A/B tests yet or written a one-pager describing a Minimum Viable Product?”. The best words.