“The highest reach of human science is the scientific recognition of human ignorance.”–William Rowan Hamilton A T & T had a slogan “back in the day”. “Reach out and touch someone.” Remember when you had to PAY for long distance calls? Now you have to explain about paying for lo...
KNN is not optimum for web applications, such as the one we discuss in this paper, since all the processing is performed at test time (there is no training), this means that in a real application all the computation would be performed when the news arrive and need to be redirected. kNN...
This essay is the third and last in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in the logical and scientific errors, the informational errors, that can result from what I have playfully coined “The Laws of Averages”. Averages As both the word and the ...