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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

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These are the so-called supercomputers, led by a smart legion of researchers and practitioners in the fields of data-driven knowledge discovery. As of 2017, the fastest computers have reached a speed of 93 PetaFLOPS, which is: 93×1015, or 93,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second. Certainly not!

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

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note that this variant “performs worse than plain under-sampling based on AUC” when tested on the Adult dataset (Dua & Graff, 2017). Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 73–79. Using the adap learning algorithm to forecast the onset of diabetes mellitus.