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I'm fascinated with randomness in all its manifestations from quantum mechanics to quantitative finance.

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114 Line of best fit does not look like a good fit. Why? Mar 11 '18
113 Why use gradient descent for linear regression, when a closed-form math solution is available? May 10 '17
75 Why the sudden fascination with tensors? Feb 23 '16
47 Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning? Sep 6 '17
46 Are residuals “predicted minus actual” or “actual minus predicted” Apr 24 '18
44 Why doesn't regularization solve Deep Neural Nets hunger for data? May 11 '18
42 What is a data scientist? Feb 11 '16
41 Does a “Normal Distribution” need to have mean=median=mode? Sep 17 '18
41 White Noise in Statistics Oct 24 '17
36 Approximate $e$ using Monte Carlo Simulation Feb 5 '16
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