Glancing through the table of the Beijing 2008 olympic medals count made me curious about what is more important to be near or right at the top. Actually what triggered curiosity was the fact that India had only one medal at the time. And India’s population is enormous. Just like China’s. Just that China is leading. Another trigger is the fact that I come from Slovenia, a country with a population just above 2M. And we have 5 medals.
Those not familiar with the contest can find the details here. After three weeks of work i managed to score 0.9422 rmse, which brings positions just above the 1000th place. how? Not too hard, but not too easy either.
I’ve put the k-nearest neighbours algorithm on work. The algorithm finds the nearest k samples to the [...]
Having trouble explaining your non-programmer boss that the whole story of creating software is just going too fast? Or tried to convince someone you need more time to plan software, not just to write software? Show these people some graphs. They’ll get it. Or at least you’ll get it they’ll never get it.
The title should [...]