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Brian Borchers
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I'm a mathematics professor at New Mexico Tech.

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Solving for regression parameters in closed-form vs gradient descent
Feb 20, 2012
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Applying ridge regression for an underdetermined system of equations?
Jan 21, 2014
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Interpretation of ridge regularization in regression
Dec 24, 2014
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What do/did you do to remember Bayes' rule?
Jun 14, 2015
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Why is the L2 regularization equivalent to Gaussian prior?
Jul 27, 2015
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What's the underlying algorithm used by R's lm?
Oct 8, 2015
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How to calculate relative error when the true value is zero?
Feb 15, 2014
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Gradient descent: compute partial derivative of arbitrary cost function by hand or through software?
Feb 10, 2016
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Interpretation of eigenvectors of Hessian inverse
Apr 20, 2015
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Ridge regression – Bayesian interpretation
Apr 27, 2014
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Two-thirds of my class colluded. Should I report them to the academic offences committee?
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How to handle a student who will not accept that he is wrong?
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Elsevier production team messed up my paper. What should I do?
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What are the motivations for publishing new editions of an existing textbook, beyond new discoveries in a field?
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why is A*v+B*v faster than (A+B)*v?

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