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Every once in a while, an actual hip-hop star mentions one of our humble candidates. Big Sean, who called out Biden, is pretty well-known. But Jeb Bush -- whose mentions often center around his relationship to his brother, which he ought to be used to by now -- got a mention from ra... Hip-hop has already vetted the 2016 candidates - The Washington Post

Jeb Bush was mentioned as early as 1999, back when he was the Governor of Florida. He also recently squashed the “family beef” with Ludacris after the rapper insulted his brother in 2008 on “Politics As Usual”, so he’s definitely no stranger to the hip hop world.

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added at May 20th, 2015 13:12
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Most of the lyrics mentioning Biden center on his being Obama's second in command. Hip-hop has already vetted the 2016 candidates - The Washington Post

Joe Biden was first mentioned in a song in 2009, the same year in which he became vice president, so you could say that all of the lyrics mentioning him are centered on his role as #2 of the POTUS.

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Jay-Z, left,  President Obama and Bruce Springsteen appear at a campaign event at Nationwide Arena on Nov. 5, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press) Hip-hop has already vetted the 2016 candidates - The Washington Post

No hyphen!

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...They were the shallowest team in the playoffs, and it was all by design. It was all just one long episode of Doomsday Preppers. Those countless runs forfeited by the reserves were famine simulations. The trauma of Game 6 against the Rockets became a rallying cry: survive the Spurs, survive this, and you can survive anything. In end times, you can rely on only those you can trust. The Clippers bench — a round of Russian roulette with a revolver that’s got five loaded chambers — was anything but trustworthy. It was high-sta... NBA Shootaround: Do the Collapse «

https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/600067321328181250

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...ent of the time, which would have been the highest of any championship contender since the 2005-06 Suns and Pistons. Only three of the last 20 NBA champions have won playing their starters that much. The last time it happened was 2004. NBA Shootaround: Do the Collapse «

The 2004 Pistons didn’t even have a backup shooting guard! No wonder Phil Jackson took a year off after losing in 5 games to them in the Finals..

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...trauma of Game 6 against the Rockets became a rallying cry: survive the Spurs, survive this, and you can survive anything. In end times, you can rely on only those you can trust. The Clippers bench — a round of Russian roulette with a revolver that’s got five loaded chambers — was anything but trustworthy. It was high-stakes survival training. But we could call it that only if they’d survived. They didn’t. NBA Shootaround: Do the Collapse «

A revolver can hold 6 bullets, which means you’d have a 16.67% chance of surviving. Which is even higher than Turkoglu’s percentage from behind the arc, a stunning 15.4%.

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. Third, C4.5 can work with both continuous and discrete data. My understanding is it does this by specifying ranges or thresholds for continuous data thus turning continuous data into discrete data. Finally, incomplete data is dealt with in its own ways. Top 10 data mining algorithms in plain English | rayli.net

There are several methods used by various decision trees. Simply ignoring the missing values (like ID3 and other old algorithms does) or treating the missing values as another category (in case of a nominal feature) are not real handling missing values. However those approaches were used in the early stages of decision tree development.

The real handling approaches to missing data does not use data point with missing values in the evaluation of a split. However, when child nodes are created and trained, those instances are distributed somehow.

I know about the following approaches to distribute the missing value instances to child nodes:

– all goes to the node which already has the biggest number of instances (CART, is not the primary rule)

– distribute to all children, but with diminished weights, proportional with the number of instances from each child node (C45 and others)

– distribute randomly to only one single child node, eventually according with a categorical distribution (I have seen that in various implementations of C45 and CART for a faster running time)

– build, sort and use surrogates to distribute instances to a child node, where surrogates are input features which resembles best how the test feature send data instances to left or right child node (CART, if that fails, the majority rule is used)

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First, C4.5 uses information gain when generating the decision tree. Second, although other systems also incorporate pruning, C4.5 uses a single-pass pruning process to mitigate over-fitting. Pruning results in many improvements. Third, C4.5 can work with both continu... Top 10 data mining algorithms in plain English | rayli.net

A better document to get started with information gain would probably be this pdf by professor Moore.

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User-agent: * Disallow: /plenum/data/5510903.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/5697203.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/07822203.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/07822803.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/7111903.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/7714403.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/7714903.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/7715303.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/7118203.doc Disallow: /plenum/data/7118303.doc What one may find in robots.txt

Wow, you’d think that they’d host transcripts of meetings on a private enclosed network, not in a non-encrypted doc file online…

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• I thought the Rockets were only capable of blowing teams out or getting blown out. I didn’t think there was a middle ground. I thought when the going got tough, the tough went out to dinner. Turns out they have a five-man lineup of Trevor Ariza, Jason Terry, Corey Brewer, Josh Smith, and Dwight Howard that does a very decent imitation of the 2009 Magic. And those five guys HATE QUITTING. They came back from 19 down with three minutes remaining in the third quarter, going on a 24-2 run. NBA Shootaround: Red Glare «

Trevor Ariza: terrific defender, was labelled as the anti-Kobe from lots of people a couple years ago. Decent shooter from behind the arc that can give you some solid minutes off the bench. 8 years of experience in the playoffs.

Jason ‘Jet’ Terry: helped the Mavs set a record for 3 pointers in a playoff game against my Lakers in a game 4 while up 3-0. Went on to win it all with Dallas. He NEVER gives up (And is super annoying when he does the plane celebration)

Corey Brewer: he was average these past years, especially in the playoffs with Denver. He was with Terry on the Mavs 2011 roster.

Josh Smith: straight out of the NBA garbage bin, Smith brought his A game to Houston. That step back 3 on Jordan’s face late in the 4th? Damnnnnnn son. 6 years of experience in the playoffs.

Dwight Howard: I don’t think he had a big impact on the comeback really, he missed a few FTs as well, but he’s still a big presence on both sides of the court, drawing coverage and box outs. He also has tons of playoffs experience. 7 years of experience in the playoffs.

Who would have thought these guys could outscore the Clippers bench!? I can’t remember which game it was but this same lineup brought back a 20+ points deficit against the Warriors during the regular season in the 4th quarter and Steve Kerr had to put the starters back in to close out the game.

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This is like the island of misfits that only McHale can coach. Such a strange lineup that is surprisingly working, and yet not working. If they make the finals with this group, I can see them all sticking together for a few years, if not I can see Houston making a ton of trades.

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