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Entertainment

I spent the last few days/weeks computing some R functions for automating a multiple variable selection of linear models using the LASSO and the SCAD penalties. It took me time to create my code, but at the end of the day, it is freshly automated and it is able to perform a statistical task in [...]

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Do you know/remember websites like “Hot or not” or even “Goth or Not”. In the case of “Hot or not”, the primary goal of this website is simple; the main thing you need to do is judge whether or not someone is “hot” on a 1 to 10 scale. The concept is simple but addictive. [...]

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For the last few days, I worked hard on the modeling of networking interactions in viral contests and with the start of the National Hockey league (NHL) season on October 1st, I thought it would be a nice idea to share my vision of how a sport, in this case hockey, is importantly influenced by [...]

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Andy Warhol’s famous quote “in the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” have become true for some of us in this Web 2.0 era (even 3.0 or 4.0) due mostly to the existence of video sharing websites such as YouTube, Metacafe and Dailymotion. These websites have given the opportunity to anyone on the [...]

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