- Dec 2023
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pythonspeed.com pythonspeed.com
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Technique #1: Changing numeric representations
For most purposes having a huge amount of accuracy isn’t too important.
Instead of representing the values as floating numbers, we can represent them as percentages between 0 and 100. We’ll be down to two-digit accuracy, but again for many use cases that’s sufficient. Plus, if this is output from a model, those last few digits of “accuracy” are likely to be noise, they won’t actually tell us anything useful.
Whole percentages have the nice property that they can fit in a single byte, an int8—as opposed to float64, which uses eight bytes:
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- Jun 2023
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css-tricks.com css-tricks.com
- Oct 2021
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blog.gdeltproject.org blog.gdeltproject.org
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Announcing The Global Numeric Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-global-numeric-graph/
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blog.gdeltproject.org blog.gdeltproject.org
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A Timeline Of Infection, Death And Vaccination Count Mentions In The News During Covid-19 Using The Global Numeric Graph – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/a-timeline-of-infection-death-and-vaccination-count-mentions-in-the-news-during-covid-19-using-the-global-numeric-graph/
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- Oct 2020
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stats.idre.ucla.edu stats.idre.ucla.edu
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autorecode gender /into ngen. execute.
Auto recode a string variable into a numeric variable... the most effective way
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- May 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2020). UK and US policies for communicating probability in intelligence analysis: A review [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kuyhb
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