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

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Why use gradient descent for linear regression, when a closed-form math solution is available?
May 10, 2017
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Line of best fit does not look like a good fit. Why?
Mar 11, 2018
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Why the sudden fascination with tensors?
Feb 23, 2016
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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?
Sep 6, 2017
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Are residuals "predicted minus actual" or "actual minus predicted"
Apr 24, 2018
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Why doesn't regularization solve Deep Neural Nets hunger for data?
May 11, 2018
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Approximate $e$ using Monte Carlo Simulation
Feb 5, 2016
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What is a data scientist?
Feb 11, 2016
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Does a "Normal Distribution" need to have mean=median=mode?
Sep 17, 2018
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White Noise in Statistics
Oct 24, 2017
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Do answers with equations and formulas in them get more votes?
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How to make math/stats discussion friendly to blind people?
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How should we celebrate reaching 100,000 questions?
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Should we do something about cyclicality of questions related to MOOC sessions?
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Does it make a sense to create the reference questions for popular topics?
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