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What Universal Optmization Works Best? No-Free-Lunch Theorem
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of algorithms and statistical methods. When I first started in this field, the first method I tried in every single dataset was K-means. It was my go-to algorithm.
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I am a veteran. I spent years in intelligence analysis, where being confidently wrong carried a cost, and that is where I learned to separate what evidence shows from what it suggests. I have a master's in journalism and communications, and I am finishing a doctorate in data science on how findings get communicated. I work in English and Portuguese.