小王子的領悟
周保松 / 2016
童心: 小王子沒有逃離社會或拒絕社會，依然認真地活著，同時也是在改變世界。
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Beta distribution
If we have a coin, how do we know it is fair? Indeed we never know for sure. But if we flip it enough time, we may learn enough about the coin to tell with certain confidence that the coin is fair or not. That is how beta distribution comes...
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Probability distributions
This is a summary of common probability distributions in engineering and
statistics. This chart has the plots of the pdf or pmf
(LaTeX source):
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Outlier removal by slope bound
The Lipschutz continuity definition inspired me on how to distort a curve to “smooth out” outliers. Smoothing out means that we want to retain most characteristics of a curve if it falls within proximity of the mean (for whatever definition of proximity and mean) and for the part that the...
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Malherbe & Vayatis (2017) Global optimization of Lipschitz functions
A paper on optimization of a Lipschitz continuous function. Algorithms
provided. Useful if the evaluation of function is expensive.
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