Nearest Neighbors: An Algorithm You Know

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 10:10 in Psychology & Sociology

You are the first to arrive to a dinner party and must choose the table where to sit, relying on your past experience of how handsome members of the opposite sex (you're straight) usually choose their seat. You need to buy stocks based on past performances and trends. You travel to some distant location and would like to know what's the weather like there, but there is no forecast for that particular place. What do you do ? read more

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