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Intuition is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning, bridging the gap between the conscious and nonconscious parts of our mind, and also between instinct and reason.

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Ultra-Minimalist Visualization for Term Frequency Table (Alternative for Tag Cloud)

Disclaimer: I have no background in Data Science or Statistics. I used AI to extract a vast list of topical keywords, from thousands of news articles, published by dozens of Tech News Publications, over a period of one year. For each publication I…
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How would you explain Data Science to someone in simple layman terms?

Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a…
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Intuitive explanation of Adversarial machine learning

How would you explain Adversarial machine learning in simple layman terms for a non-STEM person? What are the main ideas behind Adversarial machine learning?
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Why does scaled dot-product attention use softmax?

I am trying to understand the reasoning behind the Transformer architecture. In "Attention is all you need", the weights for the scaled dot-product attention is defined as the scaled dot-product of the keys and values, passed through a…
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Intuition behind catboost encoding techniques

Can anyone please help me in understanding the effect of various bucketing techniques used in CatBoost Algorithm for categorical features? Like there is border, buckets, binarized target mean, counter encoding techniques, I am not able to get proper…
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