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When models are everywhere

O'Reilly on Data

Many of the models you interact with are mediated through screens, and there’s no shortage of news about how many of us spend our lives glued to them. David Foster Wallace had the general structure of the user–product interaction correct. Let’s start by looking at how models impact us. SCREENS, FEEDBACK, AND “THE ENTERTAINMENT”.

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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

The benefits are numerous. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. "So what if no one interacted with your Twitter feed, at least they saw it!" The opportunity cost.

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Deep Learning Illustrated: Building Natural Language Processing Models

Domino Data Lab

During their data preprocessing steps, Maas and his coworkers decided to leave in stop words because they are “indicative of sentiment.” [Note: In more technical machine learning terms, the cost function of the skip-gram architecture is to maximize the log probability of any possible context word from a corpus given the current target word.]