Unanswered Questions
14 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Where should I ask a question about numerical issue about the EM algorithms?
I was trying to implement the EM algorithm (on GMM) in code, however, I was getting that in high dimension, I get numerical issues when computing the E-step:
$$p(j|x^{(t)}) = \frac{ p(j) N(x^{(t)} | ...
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Would question seeking advice on software design involving probabilistic programming be on-topic?
I just wanted to try and see if I can cook up some simple Python routines to allow translation of commonly used models into code that we can then use some inference engine on. So, basically I am ...
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Should my two part question be asked separately?
I've asked a question about error analysis and included a follow up question which is strongly related to the first one. I'm unsure whether it would be best to post them as separate questions.
I'm ...
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How to ask questions new learners would not easily understand but experienced persons feel trivial?
Sometimes I feel I have some questions that people that just learned from book will not understand what I was asking, but some really good people feel it is no need to explain. How can I ask those ...
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What to do about "sounds like spam" error?
I attempted to post a detailed question, focused on conceptual and statistical issues, not coding. The site rejected my post with an unexplained error message that my post looked like spam.
I also ...
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Follow-on to a question with too much scope
I am really enjoying working through the problem here. I could write a dozen articles for my question. It is a good question, but it is extensible. It addresses a big area.
Do you recommend that I:...
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How to improve from too broad question to answerable question
I have asked in a general/broad way here thinking that as related to What skills are required to perform large scale statistical analyses? would be well received and useful for me. Then the comments ...
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Dead end Questions
I use several Stack Exchange sites, with Stack Overflow being the most usual for me. I strongly agree with the points threshold (needed for every action in the Stack Exchange sites). I've never had ...
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Is there an area to ask a question about how a company uses data science?
My question is: What data science tools does Khan Academy use to track student performance? More specifically: I'm curious as to how they track their performance in relation to a student that is not ...
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How to improve the following question
A new user asked this question:
Neural Network for Foreign Exchange Prediction
In my opinion it's quite good as a first question, but it's hard to answer. I'd like the help the OP improve it. ...
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Why is "How to stop genetic algorithm population converging to a single value" not being answered
I posted the question "How to stop genetic algorithm population converging to a single value" 11 days ago but it has received very little interest - only a single comment and my response to that ...
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Difficulty finding an answer to a specific question and difficulty with wording
3 months ago I asked Probability Mass Function making the Truncated Normal Discrete
I can't seem to get enough attention to get multiple attempts to answer the question probably because of my poor ...
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Finding a question similar to this one
I recall seeing a question on VAEs last week, similar to this one but more verbose:
Variational Autoencoder VS Normal Autoencoder
I remember the term "understand the basic math behind [them/VAE]" so ...
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Increasing visibility to questions by upvoting comments = cheating?
I have begun posting questions in CrossValidated and recognized that many go almost unnoticed.
I realized that by periodically upvoting the corresponding comments the question may reappear as active,...
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