Tag: standard
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Standard Transformers Achieve the Minimax Rate in Nonparametric Regression with $C^{s,lambda}$ Targets
Standard Transformers Achieve the Minimax Rate in Nonparametric Regression with $C^{s,lambda}$ Targets arXiv:2602.20555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The tremendous success of Transformer models in fields such as large language models and computer vision necessitates a rigorous theoretical investigation. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first work proving that standard Transformers can…
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In Defense of Statistical Significance
In Defense of Statistical Significance We have to draw the line somewhere Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash It’s become something of a meme that statistical significance is a bad standard. Several recent blogs have made the rounds, making the case that statistical significance is a “cult” or “arbitrary.” If you’d like a classic polemic (and…
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Scaling Statistics: Incremental Standard Deviation in SQL with dbt
Scaling Statistics: Incremental Standard Deviation in SQL with dbt Why scan yesterday’s data when you can increment today’s? Image by the author SQL aggregation functions can be computationally expensive when applied to large datasets. As datasets grow, recalculating metrics over the entire dataset repeatedly becomes inefficient. To address this challenge, incremental aggregation is often employed — a method…