Tag: Important

“Important” and “Good” Are Not Synonyms The concept of “feature importance” is widely used in machine learning as the most basic type of model explainability. For example, it is used in Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), to iteratively drop the least importan...

“Important” and “Good” Are Not Synonyms The concept of “feature importance” is widely used in machine learning as the most basic type of model explainability. For example, it is used in Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), to iteratively drop the least importan...

When my 87-year-old mother was dying in my arms, after years of Parkinson’s disease stole her mobility and health, I found myself saying three words softly by her ear. “I’ve got you.” I repeated these three words over and over, as her breathing slowed, and her beautiful...

I used to work with this dude Matt E. at a company called Virtuoso. I sat in Texas. He sat in Seattle. I guess I had sounded “slow” on my interviews with this company, although I still got the job and took it, so for a while he was calling me “Stoner Ted” behind my back. (At ...

Business is also frozen. Companies are waiting for the elections before making any major decisions. I even have a friend who wants to buy a German car but the company is stalling him. If Erdogan happens to win, they’re expecting a huge financial collapse, and the Turkish Currency to lose a ...

Isthat glass of water sitting on the edge of your table half-empty or half-full? While a thirsty person may call the glass half-empty, someone less eager to take another sip may call the glass half-full. It's more than a matter of perspective but also one of context. When it comes to American po...

Perception somehow allows us to survive the bombardment of information around us. It forms a holistic process together with all the factors that shape our character and ideologies from childhood to adulthood. Design not only guides life, but also supports the processes of ordering and raising aware...

When it comes to language learning, grammar gets all the attention. Most theories about second language acquisition focus primarily on how we acquire syntax — the way we put words together to form sentences. Vocabulary, in contrast, has historically been outside of the spotlight. This is un...