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Daily learnings

Snapshot phase is meant to say "it ain't ready to be put out at the store". A correlation coefficient of one means two numbers are perfectly correlated. A correlation coefficient of zero means the two numbers are unrelated. ENDOGENOUS: having an internal cause or origin python lambda: anonymous function that runs at runtime

Asking Questions

The keys to understanding:   Digging deep enough to find genuine questions to ask   Asking them (i.e. putting them out into the universe)   Playing around in the playground enough for the answers to eventually come back to you DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION wITh FaStMap Imagine 10 people spread across the globe. YOU want to figure out how those 10 people are related . Now, in your head, imagine smashing the world so it is FLAT. (In your head, you should now see a flat sheet of paper shaped like a circle) Then, take that FLAT circle, and jam it together to form a line.

Asking questions

The keys to understanding:   Digging deep enough to find genuine questions to ask   Asking them (i.e. putting them out into the universe)   Playing around in the playground enough for the answers to eventually come back to you   Questions for TASK A: Learning an expert's data mining system   In their configuration file they have paths, datatypes, but I don't understand why in the datatypes field they sometimes multi......and as I ask the question, the answer already flows into my brain.   [float]*4 ----> "float" datatype with length? 4 or something of the sort   In the predictor file: getProjectID, canPredict, predict, write ClustersToFile, writeToFile.   In the lib file: "Standard headers" simple low level stuff, Maths stuff         medianIQR: middle 50% of scores, the median is the middle score, aka, in the middle of the IQR         median An a...