Author Archives: Vinodh Ravindranath

04 Nov

Small Vs Random Samples: Understanding Underlying Probability

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Suppose you are asked to prove how useful a feature could be. Let's say you have to estimate the number of users on your platform that would benefit from a certain feature or change on your product. You pick a “random uniform sample” of 1% of the users. They are now exposed to the feature.…

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28 Sep

A Data Science Question In The Times Of Akbar and Birbal

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A lot of us, particularly those who grew up in India, may have heard the Akbar — Birbal story, where the great Mughal emperor Akbar poses a seemingly impossible question to answer — “How many crows are there in our kingdom?”. Birbal, the witty and intelligent minister of Emperor Akbar, retorts with a random number…

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15 Apr

The World Of Cost Functions — Inclusivity, Majoritarianism And Oligarchy

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Most machine learning problems boil down to fitting a set of observations(points) to some mathematical curve (simplistically referred to as the “model” in machine learning parlance). That yields a compressed representation that can be used for applications including prediction and pattern recognition. The process of fitting typically involves minimising what is called the cost function…

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15 Apr

The World Of Cost Functions — Inclusivity, Majoritarianism And Oligarchy

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Most machine learning problems boil down to fitting a set of observations(points) to some mathematical curve (simplistically referred to as the “model” in machine learning parlance). That yields a compressed representation that can be used for applications including prediction and pattern recognition. The process of fitting typically involves minimising what is called the cost function…

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