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When life throws a curve ball, what do you do?

Handling life's most heart-wrenching moments can be incredibly challenging, but here are some general steps to help you navigate them: 1. Allow Yourself to Feel: It's important to acknowledge and process your emotions. It's okay to feel sadness, anger, or grief. Photo by Nat...

When life throws a curve ball, what do you do?

Handling life's most heart-wrenching moments can be incredibly challenging, but here are some general steps to help you navigate them: 1. Allow Yourself to Feel: It's important to acknowledge and process your emotions. It's okay to feel sadness, anger, or grief.   Photo ...

Philips’ Curve (2) — Structure and Movement of Phillips Curves

The Phillips curve theory argues that “low unemployment leads to high inflation and high unemployment leads to low inflation.” The reason is explained as follows. Structure of Philips Curve Structure of Philips’ Curve Higher unemployment does not increase wages, so the...

The Learning Curve

It’s raining outside. I am listening to a song in a language I can’t understand. The leaves look heavy because of the raindrops which look like pieces of stars. I am trying to calm my nerves by writing my other escape apart from painting. The shadow of September is still with me. Soon...

Curve Magazine Helped my Closeted Teen Self Feel Less Alone

I won’t ever forget the role that Curve Magazine played for me as a closeted teen. At 16, I was strolling the magazine aisle of Barnes and Noble when the cover with The L Word cast members stopped me in my tracks. I immediately plucked it from the shelf and carried it to...

Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve?

Whenever a baby is born, doctors measure a number of vital statistics about them: height, weight, number of fingers-and-toes, etc. A newborn child is generally considered healthy if they fall somewhere near the average in all of those categories, with a normal, healthy height and weight, and with 10...

Understanding the ROC-AUC Curve

In binary classification, the threshold is indeed a pivotal aspect. When you’re predicting the probability of an instance belonging to a particular class, a threshold determines at what probability you classify an instance as the positive class (1) or the negative class (0). Imagine yo...

You deserve a better ROC curve

All source in this article is available on Github! Feel free to reuse graphics in any context without attribution (no rights reserved). Motivation Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are invaluable for understanding the behavior of a model. There is more information packed into...