Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) were its primary formulators. They both worked to establish a bridge ...

If you want to improve the generalization of a machine learning model, you should increase the L1 penalty. Many data scientists believe this.However, when you try it in practice, this 'common sense' ...

In another topic, OOM states that "Generalizations are almost as bad as statistics". I think her statement is worthy of deeper examination. OOM, by way of introduction, it may interest you as a ...

Statistical Learning Theory provides a mathematical framework for understanding how algorithms infer predictive rules from data. At its core lies the notion of risk: the expected loss of a model on ...

Both generalizations and statistics have one very limited problem, in that even if they can tell you information about the here and now, they say nothing about the future, for there are simply too ...