By Will Moss
John Joo is an Insight alumnus from the August 2013 session with a PhD in applied physics from Harvard. He recently…
Mohammad Shahangian | Pinterest Head of Data Science
Big data plays a big role at Pinterest. With more than 30 billion Pins in the system, we’re building the most comprehensive collection of interests online. One of the challenges associated with…
In the early years of Wheel of Fortune, the finalist in the Bonus Round was only allowed to choose 5 consonants and 1 vowel. R, S, T, L, N, E were the most commonly chosen letters, and with good reason, too. If you look at the 1,000 most common…
When it comes to function minimization, it’s time to open a book of optimization and linear algebra. I am currently working on variable selection and lasso-based solutions in genetics. What lasso does is basically minimizing the loss function and an penalty in…
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