User ffriend - Cross Validated

ffriend

Member for 12 years, 3 months
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7 Questions

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553 votes

15 answers

234k views

What is the intuition behind beta distribution?

asked Jan 15, 2013 at 15:31

41 votes

1 answer

22k views

Step-by-step example of reverse-mode automatic differentiation

asked Jul 16, 2016 at 22:28

11 votes

2 answers

339 views

Voting system that uses accuracy of each voter and the associated uncertainty

asked Dec 5, 2012 at 10:22

8 votes

1 answer

4k views

Clear description of PCA using SVD of covariance matrix

asked Oct 7, 2012 at 15:21

6 votes

1 answer

2k views

Estimating standard error of parameters of linear model fitted using gradient descent

asked Oct 13, 2014 at 22:09

5 votes

1 answer

1k views

Is value of ELBO a scalar or a distribution?

asked Jan 2, 2018 at 22:01

4 votes

0 answers

748 views

Can (loopy) belief propagation be used to learn from a data set?

asked May 19, 2016 at 22:02