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Mad (Data) Scientist
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Mad (Data) Scientist is a personal blog at matloff.wordpress.com about data and programming. Since 2014, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Musings, useful code etc. on R and data science
Most-linked posts?
- Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-12
- R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R? (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-18
- Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-18
What Hacker News says?
> Also one could argue that the polynomial model is just a perceptron One also can argue otherwise [1]. [1] https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/neural-networks-are...
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on “You might not need machine learning”Submitted Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018) as a story · 173 points
HN discussionI've had a low opinion of Matloff since at least https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/neural-networks-are...
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on “Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)”Submitted Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression as a story · 122 points
HN discussionIncidentally, yesterday I submitted a wordpress blog post about some of these issues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817666 https://matloff.wordpress.com/2020/11/11/the-notion-of-doubl...
Comment linking /2020/11/11/the-notion-of-double-descent/
on “A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning”Submitted Simpson's Paradox is Back as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThey revised the paper in response to earlier, uh, response. https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/update-on-polynomia... https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06850
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on “Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression”Submitted R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R? as a story · 42 points
HN discussionThe actual blog post: https://matloff.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/neural-networks-are...
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on “Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression”Submitted R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R? (2014) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionin R loops are generally frown upon due to this issue. BUT R is not slow when it comes to parallel processing or using Revolution Anayltics also has speed ups if you need it. R also has dplyr is speedy and the data.tables is even faster. I think the original Julia speed claims were a little biased to Julia and well there is plenty of awesome things about R, but "slow" isn't a far statement. There is a reason why R h…
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on “Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language”Submitted Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThis blog post by the same author looks pretty good too. "What Can Go Wrong: My Favorite Example" (27 April 2014) http://matloff.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/what-can-go-wrong-my...
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on “Simpson's Paradox is Back”Submitted Some Comments on Donaho’s “50 Years of Data Science” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do DL networks work well in spite of being drastically overparameterized? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Latest on the Julia Language (vs. R) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Partools: A sensible R package for large data sets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comments on the New R OOP System, R7 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statistics vs. CS as a story · 1 points
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