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Hey, New York — Brian thinks he's our new CFO. We gave him a stage to prove it.
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TRUE or FALSE: A family has two children. You are given the information that at least one of the children is a boy. The probability that both children are boys is 1/2.
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Hedging is a risk management strategy to offset potential investment losses by taking an opposing position in a related asset. In real life, an airline hedges against rising fuel prices by buying oil futures. In machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL) is used to develop
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A stopping time is a rule for deciding when to halt a random process based only on information observed so far. In machine learning, it's the principle behind early stopping, where training halts when validation performance plateaus to prevent overfitting. In real life, it's
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TRUE or FALSE: You draw a single card from a standard 52-card deck. The probability of drawing a King or a Queen is calculated by adding their individual probabilities: P(King)+P(Queen).
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A Markov process is a model where the future state depends only on the present, not the past (the "memoryless" property). In machine learning, it's the foundational framework for Reinforcement Learning (RL), defining how agents interact with an environment. In real life, it
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Gibbs sampling is an MCMC algorithm for sampling from complex distributions. In machine learning, it's a key engine for Bayesian inference, notably in Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for topic modeling. This is used in real life to discover hidden themes in customer reviews or
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TRUE or FALSE: There are two identical bags. Bag A contains two red marbles. Bag B contains one red marble and one blue marble. You randomly choose a bag and then randomly draw one marble from it. The marble you draw is red. Given that you drew a red marble, the probability that
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Machine learning helps navigate the vast mathematical landscapes of string theory, finding patterns and potential solutions in complex geometries that are beyond human calculation. In real-world physics, ML is indispensable. At particle accelerators like the LHC, algorithms sift
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Decision trees are flowchart-like models that make predictions through a series of conditional rules. In machine learning, the algorithm learns the optimal feature-based conditions (e.g., "is age > 30?") to split the data. Each path from the root to a leaf represents a rule set
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TRUE or FALSE: A political pollster conducts an online survey and gathers responses from over 1,000,000 people to predict an election outcome. Because the sample size is extremely large, the results of this poll are guaranteed to be an accurate and unbiased representation of the
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Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a statistical method for separating a mixed signal into its independent sources. It famously solves the "cocktail party problem" by isolating individual voices from one microphone. In machine learning, it's used for blind source separation
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TRUE or FALSE: A researcher observes a strong positive correlation (r = 0.9) between monthly ice cream sales and the number of shark attacks at a coastal resort. This strong correlation proves that increasing ice cream sales causes an increase in shark attacks.
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Hierarchical clustering builds a tree-like hierarchy of clusters, visualized as a dendrogram. In machine learning, it's an unsupervised method for discovering nested structures without pre-defining the number of clusters. It's crucial in biology for creating evolutionary trees
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Bernoulli Naive Bayes is a probabilistic classifier for binary feature data (e.g., present/absent). In machine learning, it's a staple for text classification, powering applications like spam filtering and sentiment analysis. It calculates the probability of a document belonging
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TRUE or FALSE: A study with a very large sample size finds that a new weight-loss supplement results in a statistically significant weight loss (p < 0.05) compared to a placebo. This result means the supplement is a practically effective and meaningful treatment for weight loss.
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