In this episode with go over the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence paper, "On Information and Sufficiency" (1951).
It introduced a measure of the difference between two probability distributions, quantifying the cost of assuming one distribution when another is true.
This concept, rooted in...
Published 12/02/24
In the 18th episode we go over the original k-nearest neighbors algorithm;
Fix, Evelyn; Hodges, Joseph L. (1951). Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties USAF School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Field, Texas
They introduces a nonparametric method for...
Published 11/25/24