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Who introduced the term hyperparameter?
I am trying to find the earliest use of the term hyperparameter. Currently, it is used in machine learning but it must have had earlier uses in statistics or optimization theory. Even the multivolume ...
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Do these distributions have a name already?
In playing with some math finance stuff I ran into the following distribution and I was curious if someone had a name for it or has studied it or worked with it already.
To start, let $\Delta^n$ be ...