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Tag: statistics
Why Deep Learning Works Even Though It Shouldn’t
Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.
MinHashing
Clustering in linear time with a key-value store and a few lines of code.
Logs, Tails, Long Tails
Learn the shape of the logs of probability distributions, and you’ll be able to guess how they behave.
A Short, Simple Introduction to Information Theory
Information Theory is one of the most useful things for Computer Scientists to understand about statistics, and it’s deeply related to things we do every day. If you are comfortable writing code but sometimes intimidated by math, this should give you an overview of the main concepts in information theory, and hopefully an understanding of why they work.
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