Happy Hour Virus | Courtesy of TDA_Boulder Single-Step Income Statement B. Expenses and Losses 1. Expenses involved in primary activities are expenses that are incurred in order to earn normal operating revenues. Under the accrual basis of accounting sales commissions expense should appear on the income statement in the same period that the related sales are reported, regardless of when the commission is actually paid. Costs used up (or expiring) in the accounting period shown in the heading of the income statement are also considered to be expenses of that period. The above examples reflect the matching principle and show that under the accrual basis of accounting, expenses on the income statement are likely to be reported at different times than the cash expenditures/disbursements. It is common for expenses to occur before the company pays for them (e.g., wages earned by employees, employee bonuses and vacations, utilities, and sales commissions). Cash payments do not always mean that an expense has occurred. Here's a Tip 2. 3. Additional Considerations
Everything You Wanted to Know About Machine Learning, But Were Too Afraid To Ask (Part One) Recently , Professor Pedro Domingos, one of the top machine learning researchers in the world, wrote a great article in the Communications of the ACM entitled “A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning“. In it, he not only summarizes the general ideas in machine learning in fairly accessible terms, but he also manages to impart most of the things we’ve come to regard as common sense or folk wisdom in the field. It’s a great article because it’s a brilliant man with deep experience who is an excellent teacher writing for “the rest of us”, and writing about things we need to know. And he manages to cover a huge amount of ground in nine pages. Now, while it’s very light reading for the academic literature, it’s fairly dense by other comparisons. How Does Machine Learning Work? We know that supervised machine learning models (the ones you build at BigML) can predict one field in your data (the objective field) from some or all of the others (the input fields). Not so fast. Stay Tuned
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek) Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before. Since the moment I was offered the job, I’ve been markedly more careless with my money. I’m not talking about big, extravagant purchases. In hindsight I think I’ve always done this when I’ve been well-employed — spending happily during the “flush times.” I suppose I do it because I feel I’ve regained a certain stature, now that I am again an amply-paid professional, which seems to entitle me to a certain level of wastefulness. What I’m doing isn’t unusual at all. It seems I got much more for my dollar when I was traveling. A Culture of Unnecessaries “You can manipulate consumers into wanting, and therefore buying, your products.
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Python Tools for Machine Learning | CB Insights - Blog Python is one of the best programming languages out there, with an extensive coverage in scientific computing: computer vision, artificial intelligence, mathematics, astronomy to name a few. Unsurprisingly, this holds true for machine learning as well. Of course, it has some disadvantages too; one of which is that the tools and libraries for Python are scattered. If you are a unix-minded person, this works quite conveniently as every tool does one thing and does it well. This post aims to list and describe the most useful machine learning tools and libraries that are available for Python. We do not aim to list all the machine learning libraries available in Python (the Python package index returns 139 results for “machine learning”) but rather the ones that we found useful and well-maintained to the best of our knowledge. Scikit-Learn Scikit Learn is our machine learning tool of choice at CB Insights. Statsmodels PyMC PyMC is the tool of choice for Bayesians. Shogun Gensim Orange PyMVPA Theano
Parents Just Don't Understand Misperceptions are a natural part of parenting. Mothers and fathers see their children as they want to see them—often, as they've seen them since birth. They also persist in envisioning long-imagined futures for their kids. There is no single cause of parental misperceptions, but one place to start looking, experts agree, is in the mirror. We also make highly subjective judgments about ourselves. Parents, for better or worse, can extend these positive illusions to their children, believing, consciously or unconsciously, that their offspring possess special qualities that also happen to reflect favorably on their own parenting skills. Of course, to feed our self-serving bias, it helps to see our children in the best positive light. Biology also plays a powerful role in parental bias. That may not sound especially sentimental. Following are seven of the most common parental misperceptions, and their sources: Long-term societal changes have also had an impact. Absolutely.
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Statistics books for (free) download This post will eventually grow to hold a wide list of books on statistics (e-books, pdf books and so on) that are available for free download. But for now we’ll start off with just one several books: The Elements of Statistical Learning written by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman. you can legally download a copy of the book in pdf format from the authors website! Several of these books were discovered through a CrossValidated discussion: Know of any more e-books freely available for download? Related
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