I think he makes a pretty good case for why they're wrong in the article. He also specifically addresses that question:
> I don’t know if it’s true that a plurality of people doing logistic regressions are using L2 regularization and lambda = 1, but the point is that it doesn’t matter. Unregularized logistic regression is the most obvious interpretation of a bare bones logistic regression, so it should be the default
> Why is this a problem? Because one might expect that the most basic version of a function should broadly work for most cases. Except that’s not actually what happens for LogisticRegression. Scikit-learn requires you to either preprocess your data or specify options that let you work with data that has not been preprocessed in this specific way.
Most people running an unparameterized logistic regression would expect that regression to work just fine on un-normalized data. However, a regularized LR is not going to work at all unless your data has been normalized. This is deeply counter-intuitive and has probably tripped thousands of people up who have no idea it even happened.
Not sure why this is downvoted. I think it's great and we may see users deliberately do such things to get companies to ban them, which leads to bigger publicity and awareness at little expense.
In this case, the player sacrificed the prize money and some e-status, but for the publicity it got, it was probably worth it.
While most users in China don't have access to Facebook, it is still pretty cheap/easy† for Chinese citizens to buy access to a VPN that allows them to use services by Western companies (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter)
You are right in regards to the current movement. In the 5 demands it says, "...implementation of universal suffrage for Legislative Council and Chief Executive elections"
Which could feasibly be done within the confines of the basic law. It is true many pro-democratic HKers don't want independence.
But I should also be complete and let you know there is a fledgling and growing movement, the so-called "Republic of Cantonia", who believe all Guangdong should be break into its own nation. You can see the flag here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_active_autonomis...
