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

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110 Line of best fit does not look like a good fit. Why? Mar 11 '18
77 Why use gradient descent for linear regression, when a closed-form math solution is available? May 10 '17
73 Why the sudden fascination with tensors? Feb 23 '16
42 What is a data scientist? Feb 11 '16
42 Are residuals “predicted minus actual” or “actual minus predicted” Apr 24 '18
41 Why doesn't regularization solve Deep Neural Nets hunger for data? May 11 '18
41 Does a “Normal Distribution” need to have mean=median=mode? Sep 17 '18
40 White Noise in Statistics Oct 24 '17
35 Why was the letter Q chosen in Q-learning? May 16 '18
34 Approximate $e$ using Monte Carlo Simulation Feb 5 '16
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