When you think of a machine learning algorithm, the first metric that comes to mind is its accuracy. A lot of research is centered on developing algorithms that are accurate and can predict the outcome with a high degree of confidence. During the training process, an important issue to think about is the stability of the learning algorithm. This allows us to understand how a particular model is going to turn out. We need to make sure that it generalizes well to various training sets. Estimating the stability becomes crucial in these situations. So what exactly is stability? How do we estimate it? Continue reading “Measuring the Stability of Machine Learning Algorithms”
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What Is External Sorting?
Sorting is one of the most common things we do in programming. We are given a bunch of numbers and we want to arrange them according to some rule. Let’s say we want to arrange them in ascending order. To sort these numbers, people tend to use a sorting algorithm that takes place entirely within the memory of a computer. The memory we are talking about is the RAM. Here, we take all the numbers and store them in the memory so that we can sort them. This is possible only when the amount of data is small enough to be stored in the memory. What if we have a hundred trillion numbers to be sorted? It’s too big to be stored in the computer’s memory. How do we do it? Continue reading “What Is External Sorting?”
Perpetual Enigma 