1. grab the nearest book.
2. open the book to page 23.
3. find the fifth sentence.
4. post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
"Consider N data points uniformly distributed in a p-dimensional unit ball centered at the origin."
(From Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning. Yes, I admit to being a geek.)
is the answer, my friend, really blowing in the wind?(disclaim this question)
April 16 2004, 18:58:48 UTC 11 years ago
How many seas must the white dove sail before she can sleep in the sand?
How many times must the canon balls fly before they are forever banned?
Re: is the answer, my friend, really blowing in the wind?(disclaim this question)
April 17 2004, 00:20:10 UTC 11 years ago
(Well, the last one may be limited by obsolescence of cannonballs. People's habit of trying to kill one another with fast-moving large objects is likely to outlast that by a good deal, I'm afraid.)
Re: is the answer, my friend, really blowing in the wind?(disclaim this question)
April 17 2004, 17:28:27 UTC 11 years ago
maybe you could help out with the rest of the song...heh I joke