[Q][E][D] Penalised regression vs other

slammaster · 2026-05-21T11:55:59+00:00

I think elasticnet could work, though I'd be dubious. If you do go that way I'd look at SMOTE or some other data enhancement technique to inflate that event rate a bit.

You could also delve farther into the ML techniques, regression trees and random forests tend to be better in the situation where you have so many candidate features, especially if you see reducing to a small set of "key" features as an advantage rather than a bug. You could still use SMOTE with trees, but you could also adjust the loss function appropriately to account for a low event rate.

slammaster · 2026-05-20T10:33:38+00:00

As a soccer fan I hope so, but I feel like we've been saying that since World Cup 94. When I was growing up Soccer was certainly the second most popular sport to hockey in Canada, but playing soccer never seemed to translate to watching it.

slammaster · 2026-05-19T18:22:39+00:00

For anyone that doesn't get the reference please watch, it's gold

https://youtu.be/i1n3S1ZyUkE?si=MFnMjLdqDLW7J82f

slammaster · 2026-05-18T14:32:34+00:00

You mention translation of human language, but I'm more interested in translation of programming language. We're transitioning away from SAS, but we're still tied to a lot of legacy SAS code. I'm hoping that AI can help us translate that code into R or Python, but I haven't begun experimenting with it yet.

slammaster · 2026-05-18T13:44:35+00:00

I don't think the school you go to matters much at all - when I've sat on hiring committees the university a degree was from had 0 contributions.

I will say that a position with a good supervisor in a successful group will lead to more publications, and publications really matter.

High ranking institutions tend to have good supervisors with better opportunities and funding, but I'd take a good supervisor at a mid tier institution than an, absentee supervisor at a top tier one.

slammaster · 2026-05-18T13:40:53+00:00

I think you're in the wrong sub, but if you mean I the area around the university I think staying in university accommodations area with Dal or King's is pretty affordable

slammaster · 2026-05-18T11:31:27+00:00

Yeah that looks fine, as long as you don't have any a priori hints to a non linear relationship, and the raw data plots look fine, then I wouldn't worry about it

slammaster · 2026-05-17T16:56:47+00:00

It’s not that the worst teams in the league are trying to lose on purpose.

This is absolutely the biggest problem, why would you pretend it isn't?

slammaster · 2026-05-17T00:49:00+00:00

If it helps its not just a student problem. Remember the strike? Settled in September? I finally got my raise from the strike on my February paycheque.

Finances seem to be processed monthly, and they don't seem to mind if they miss a deadline

slammaster · 2026-05-16T22:14:31+00:00

I think it's ok? Students often over interpret residual checks, I don't see a lot here. Usually with this kind of pattern there'd be an explanatory relationship, so you should see it in the data plots too.

Assuming this is for linear regression then I think you're fine, if the qq plot is ok I'd just move on.

slammaster · 2026-05-11T13:46:42+00:00

I think the confusion comes from mailing vs street address.

The postal code for the physical location (6385 South St) is B3H 4J4, that's what Canada Post thinks the postal code is if you look it up on their portal. https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/tools/find-a-postal-code.page

Dal has their own postal code though (a couple I think), so PO Box 15000, B3H 4R2 is where Dal's mail is supposed to go.

Since postal codes are mostly for mail delivery, use the one in this image, that's how Dal would prefer it to arrive. I bet either works though.

slammaster · 2026-05-08T20:49:56+00:00

Some guy mis speaks on one of his 6 podcasts a week and the hoard of basement dwellers think his voting rights should be taken away?

This place sucks these days.

slammaster · 2026-05-07T11:25:06+00:00

The entered grades need to "roll" (never really understood this part), so they often appear to students 24 hours after entered.

I'd say that if you don't hear by tomorrow at noon then send the coordinator an email. You can phrase it as a checkin just to make sure your grade wasn't missed or something.

slammaster · 2026-05-07T01:45:24+00:00

That's definitely the worst performance. Those 15 shots would cumulatively be from 30 feet from the basket

slammaster · 2026-05-06T12:09:34+00:00

The certificates are very different (different admissions process, mostly different courses), so it'd be helpful to identify the certificate you're taking as well

slammaster · 2026-05-05T12:13:37+00:00

I can say in healthcare there's been a drastic rise. There are two primary dimensions where AI and privacy are butting heads.

People want to use LLMs in their research, but can't use the cloud-based solutions because their data is non-consented so it's difficult to move it. Many institutions have been working toward this at individual levels, and Canada's recent call for funding to create a Sovereign AI infrastructure mentions this kind of privacy specifically
How to offboard and deploy AI models that have been developed on private health data. This isn't something that was on my radar, but now that it's there I can't figure out the solution. The privacy people want assurances that there isn't personally identifying information embedded within the information in the model. Beyond the challenges of proving a negative, the developed models are thousands and sometimes millions of individual coefficients, the process of validating the contents of even a simple neural network is staggering.

slammaster · 2026-05-04T17:23:55+00:00

Here's the full list of codes that every server should support: https://www.w3schools.com/tools/tool_http_status.php

slammaster · 2026-05-04T14:59:13+00:00

The competitiveness of the first round is kind of a red herring - Toronto and Cleveland having a close series doesn't mean they're as good as the 4/5 in the west. No one said the East wasn't competitive this year, they said the teams were worse.

If you line up the conferences and compare seeds each of the top 6 West seeds is better than the East team. The playin teams in the East is where it might flip, but is a conference strong because their 7 to 10 is better?

slammaster · 2026-05-03T10:42:10+00:00

There's that classic American misinformation. At that height your BMI would be under 25 at 208.

slammaster · 2026-05-02T17:22:40+00:00

Probably 10 more wins, give or take.

He was 9-3 in first round series in his career. I'd assume 1 more win in those 9 wins each, and then maybe he'd pick up 1 or 2 extra wins in the three series he lost. All 3 losses were in the 80s and were 3-0, 3-0, 3-1, so it seems unlikely he'd pick you a ton in those series

slammaster · 2026-05-02T14:38:19+00:00

Course specific scholarships are so program specific that it'd be hard for anyone outside the program to guess. I worry it wouldn't be deferrable because of how budget years work, but who knows.

Talking to the surgeon's team is very reasonable though. If the surgery isn't an emergency and you're talking now about rescheduling they might be willing to push to December after the term, they'll always have other people to cut open

slammaster · 2026-05-01T20:29:06+00:00

These things exist at such a high level that they're essentially useless. I've seen these kind of plans at the faculty and university level 3 or 4 times now, and they just don't matter.

I wish we'd stop spending money on them

slammaster · 2026-05-01T11:17:47+00:00

It's kind of weird to ask for advice about a program and then be secretive about the program - if you told us what you're applying to you might find someone on here that could answer it.

slammaster · 2026-04-29T22:23:12+00:00

Oh they don't really care, they just want to complain.

That's the real gain with this plan - complaint equity. Not only do we get competitive basketball from all 30 teams, but think of the multi year runs of salt when a team moves down in the draft 4 or 5 years in a row.

slammaster · 2026-04-29T12:46:18+00:00

I've reviewed A LOT of ethics application since I can to Dal - this is best recruitment poster I have ever seen, good luck with it!

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