Monthly Archives: August 2009

I learned this technique in a lecture I saw by Ron Kohavi. The idea is that we want to create a random sample but we want to make sure that if a value appears multiple times, it is either always sampled or never sampled. Let’s look at a specific example – let’s say we have [...]

Last Spring, as I was looking for a summer job, one of my friends back home asked if I would be interested in applying for an internship at Rapleaf. He had worked there previously and had really enjoyed it. At the time, I really had no idea what was in store for me, but looking [...]