Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 24, 2023

2— Collect Data to Memory Once The most common mistake for spark novices is misunderstanding lazy evaluation. Lazy evaluation means that no data transformations will be performed until you invoke a collection to memory. Spark is lazily evaluated! Increase the RAM to core ratio in your compute. cast("int")).drop(c)

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DataRobot

JULY 21, 2022

Data scientists need to understand the business problem and the project scope to assess feasibility, set expectations, define metrics, and design project blueprints. Define the business problem. Investigate whether the business problem can be solved with machine learning and has sufficient business impact to warrant such an approach.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s kept the same 90 percent screen-to-body ratio.). Microsoft’s Surface devices have been using the 3:2 aspect ratio for years, and I’m glad that the Spectre line is finally making the switch. That means if your daily tasks are similar to mine, the Spectre should make it through your workday with no problem.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

The good news is that this is not a problem because open rates are fool’s gold. The problems start when your organization claims your email strategy is a success based only on a high open rate. A high open rate to click-thru rate (CTR) ratio helps you determine the efficacy of your content. Clicks and Conversions Matter.

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OpenAI

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Our plan in the shorter term is to use AI to help humans evaluate the outputs of more complex models and monitor complex systems, and in the longer term to use AI to help us come up with new ideas for better alignment techniques. That said, it’s important that the ratio of safety progress to capability progress increases.

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NTEN

AUGUST 24, 2011

What is the problem? When someone in your organization, or on your team, comes to you with a solution or a new feature request, the first thing for a CTO to do is define the problem. Now that you and your team have defined the problem, take a step back and examine the solution. IT problems are typically not unique.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. Asking, before implementing a new technology – what problem is really attempting to be solved?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

But a technique first tested in the ’20s soon solved the problem. Anamorphic lenses squeeze a wide field of view from the sides so it fits in the film frame, and when projected using an anamorphic projector, the process was reversed — the image is stretched back out to the desired aspect ratio.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Evaluating Ideas for Fundraising Events When you’re evaluating a potential fundraising event, don’t just look at the potential revenue. But if you’re surviving on little fundraisers, you’ve got a bigger problem. Or the one that’s easiest to organize and promote, practically selling itself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . This is evaluating your performance in relation to other blogs in your space using the same metrics. . Feedburner doesn't provide those. What is the referral traffic?

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 26, 2023

Posted by Eleni Triantafillou, Research Scientist, and Malik Boudiaf, Student Researcher, Google Deep learning has recently made tremendous progress in a wide range of problems and applications, but models often fail unpredictably when deployed in unseen domains or distributions. Illustration of the "focal → soundscapes" shift.

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DataRobot

JULY 28, 2022

This article presents a case study of how DataRobot was able to achieve high accuracy and low cost by actually using techniques learned through Data Science Competitions in the process of solving a DataRobot customer’s problem. Ultimately, the evaluation is based on whether or not the model delivers success to the customers’ business.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

Identify key problems faced – This could be budgetary constraints, logistics concerns, or lack of volunteers. Overcoming problems prove competency in your abilities. Armed with this information, you can evaluate keywords that present an area of opportunity. There’s just one problem. . Congratulations!

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

In sum, a training and development audit looks into the effectiveness of the training functions and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses with supporting recommendations. An audit will help identify problem areas that need corrective measures and actionable plans. Evaluates and improves training effectiveness; 8.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

In sum, a training and development audit looks into the effectiveness of the training functions and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses with supporting recommendations. An audit will help identify problem areas that need corrective measures and actionable plans. Evaluates and improves training effectiveness; 8.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

In sum, a training and development audit looks into the effectiveness of the training functions and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses with supporting recommendations. An audit will help identify problem areas that need corrective measures and actionable plans. Evaluates and improves training effectiveness; 8.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

But when you’re evaluating a device that starts at $279, the question isn’t “Is this a perfect device?” The display does have a 16:10 aspect ratio, which I appreciate — and if you’re used to using 16:9 panels, you’ll notice the extra vertical space. Docs and Spotify each crashed once or twice, but it wasn’t a rampant problem.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation. Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. .

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 3, 2025

Our goal with the paper was to provide a single rigorous data point when evaluating the utility of SAEs. For both of these reasons, some future benchmark that looked at a problem like having to do a bunch of interpretability-based work in a short time frame might show that SAEs outperform.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For instance, you could: Evaluate various aspects of your website against industry-standard checklists such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. checklist recommends color contrast ratios of 4.5:1 To solve this problem, place a color overlay on the photo so the text background is all one color. The WCAG 2.1

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2022

If you’re seeing lower email open rates, declining donations, and fewer donors giving, it’s time to take a step back and evaluate where things are off track. It’s part of following the 3-to-1 Ratio and it helps donors feel valued, not over asked. Start with your fundraising communications. Here’s an example.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Posted by Sergio Boixo and Vadim Smelyanskiy, Principal Scientists, Google Quantum AI Team A full-scale error-corrected quantum computer will be able to solve some problems that are impossible for classical computers, but building such a device is a huge endeavor. While some (e.g., QC-QMC 2022 ) have had high impact and others (e.g.,

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

Evaluate each nonprofit on the list and determine the best candidates. Further evaluation can be conducted on each partner after step 5) and once both sides have agreed to meet for the first time. Specific areas to evaluate are: signs of unmanageable financial problems, negative trends, or anomalies.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

So I am intimately acquainted with the problem that Foundation Center programmers are trying to solve with their machine learning approach. It does seem as much a collaboration problem as a data problem to get so many stakeholders to share their data. Each equation, and each program, is continually evaluated and improved.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Ensure Your Font Size is Large Enough Many web users have vision problems, whether they just have strong prescription eyeglasses or have some type of visual impairment. The higher the contrast ratio of text color to background color, the easier it will be to read.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One of our biggest efficiency improvements this year is the CollectiveEinsum strategy for evaluating the large scale matrix multiplication operations that are at the heart of neural networks. However, building a new hardware accelerator incurs high initial cost and requires significant development and deployment time. compared to TPU v3.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The efficiency ratio , also known as the revenue to cost ratio. The best part of the efficiency ratio is that it doesn’t involve any complex math. Use the efficiency ratio to calculate the ROI of your marketing activities. Ask the candidate/vendor to evaluate areas of improvement on your site.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 10, 2023

However, new sequencing technologies (such as consensus sequencing and phased assembly methods ) have driven exciting progress towards solving these problems. Training and evaluation schematic for DeepVariant. Effect of alignment loss function in training evaluation of model output.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

This ratio addresses how efficiently you are in adding revenue. If you have a churn problem, a growth challenge, a product-market fit issue, it’s all baked into burn multiple. If you have a churn problem, a growth challenge, a product-market fit issue, it’s all baked into burn multiple. The number doesn’t lie.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Mosaic wants to flip that ratio on its head. . We started off by solving the really, really hard problem of how do you collect at scale in a really compliant manner or really compassionate but still really effective manner, and that enabled us to solve some of the larger problems in the industry,” CEO Jake Cavan told TechCrunch. “We

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

I think it is a mistake to think of these as finite problems [12] they are infinite. If we were to make the measure time-dependent, Id maybe instead want to say an infinite endeavor can only be (lets say) [ 1 3 ] -completed/solved, and maybe instead call it a forever-elusive/slippery/escaping question/quest/problem/endeavor.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Identify the problems your nonprofit is facing when it comes to collecting data and search through your database, noting unhelpful and inconsistent information. Providing that for your donors can illustrate how your nonprofit has taken an active role in identifying a problem and working to solve it. We all have that family member.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so fundamentally, it’s you care about this cause because of what you’ve already done in the community, you’ve met some of the people that we felt will inspire others to give, and you’ll solve our community problems or kind of summarizing this. . Harvey: You got a gun problem in America, I think. .

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

A third said he didn’t think the gender ratio mattered. They know there’s a problem with how much energy the blockchain uses and care about the resulting carbon emissions. It also had the best ratio of men to women of all the parties; there was even a line at the women’s room. One person told me it was too depressing.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The company has since fixed the problem. Evaluate the tech CEO’s hearing fashions. “The companies as they exist today have monopoly power,” he said. Some need to be broken up. All need to be properly regulated.”. It was not nearly enough. But it was true, and it was a beginning. Back off the soft focus. Remember books? Here’s one.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Up to a certain point, one of your users complaining that they got locked out of their account is just a customer service problem. Pinterest sent an email to staff saying it will add a person of color to its board and will start evaluating managers based on diversity hiring. Do you have the right to speak? Tom Warren / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

The civil rights group put up a web page with some “recommendations,” starting with hiring a “C-suite level executive with civil rights expertise to evaluate products and policies for discrimination, bias, and hate.” (My Tech companies are asking their black employee groups to fix Silicon Valley’s race problem for free.

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