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jwimberley
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  • Cambridge, MA, United States
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Former physics graduate student who studied experimental particle physics; current software engineer.

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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?
Dec 29, 2016
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What is the name of the distribution with a probability density like $1/(1+\exp(x))$?
Dec 15, 2016
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Linear model where the data has uncertainty, using R
Sep 19, 2016
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If I have the expected value of the logarithm of a RV, can I obtain the expected value of the RV itself?
Sep 19, 2016
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Is there a formal name for this statistical fallacy?
Sep 30, 2021
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Null model AIC lower than full model AIC in logistic regression in R
Feb 27, 2017
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Generating random numbers that are log-normally distributed
Aug 5, 2020
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Relationship between binomial regression link function and goodness-of-fit tests [now with link to R code]
Nov 3, 2016
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Relationship of Poisson regression to determining proportions in a mixture distribution
Dec 2, 2016
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Can we really sample from a Continuous distribution (Scipy function) and what does it mean?
Sep 19, 2016
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What justifies dimensional analysis?
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Generating random boolean
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Collatz-like properties of finite fields
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Why do almost all nuclear reactions release energy?
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Why is linear search so much faster than binary search?