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Interests: Nonlinear multivariate dynamic stochastic global optimization (everything else is a special case, an approximation, or a compromise)

Simulation Optimization, baby. Bring it on!!

Se habla Nonlinear SDP

Nonlinearly optimizing for three eighths of a century ... and quadratic convergence is about to kick in any moment now.

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Do we need gradient descent to find the coefficients of a linear regression model?
Jul 31, 2015
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How does the L-BFGS work?
Jun 13, 2017
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Why are optimization algorithms defined in terms of other optimization problems?
Jan 2, 2017
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Bootstrapping Generalized Least Squares
Sep 21, 2016
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Why is logistic regression called a machine learning algorithm?
Jun 25, 2015
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Why not use the "normal equations" to find simple least squares coefficients?
Apr 27, 2018
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Expected value vs. most probable value (mode)
Aug 14, 2016
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For i.i.d. random varianbles $X$, $Y$, can $X-Y$ be uniform [0,1]?
Aug 11, 2016
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Intuitive explanation for dividing by $n-1$ when calculating standard deviation?
Aug 28, 2015
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Is it meaningful to calculate standard deviation of two numbers?
Aug 17, 2016
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