Monthly Archives: April 2008

To switch or not to switch, that is the question

I recently came across a very interesting problem known as “The Monty Hall Problem.” This is a statistical puzzle named after the host of an old television show “Let’s Make a Deal” which featured a similar problem albeit a little more involved than the basic version that mathematicians use. Here is a simple description of [...]

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More data usually beats better algorithms?

Anand Rajaraman, who teaches a class on  Machine Learning at Stanford, recently wrote an interesting blog post: More data usually beats better algorithms, he claimed. The post makes for an interesting read and so do the plethora of comments on it. He made a follow-up post, which is equally interesting.
I do agree with [...]

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