Are all highly liquid securities within the same class?

Not all injections are the same.

To the Editor: In metaphorical terms, a problem arises when good apples are pooled with bad apples; they all get tarred with the same brush. This principle applies when all studies pertaining to spinal injections of steroids are pooled, as if they are all equal. Subsequently, the lay press publicizes sweeping conclusions such as “injecting any liquid, even plain saline solution, works just as w...

“ Happy Families Are All The Same ”

All valve malfunctions are not the same.

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Are Loss Functions All the Same?

In this letter, we investigate the impact of choosing different loss functions from the viewpoint of statistical learning theory. We introduce a convexity assumption, which is met by all loss functions commonly used in the literature, and study how the bound on the estimation error changes with the loss. We also derive a general result on the minimizer of the expected risk for a convex loss fun...

Are We All In the Same "Bloat"?

“Bloat”, a term that has existed in the technical community for many years, has recently received attention in the popular press. The term has a negative connotation implying that human, or system performance is diminished in some way when “bloat” exists. Yet “bloat” is seldom clearly defined and is often a catch-all phrase to suggest that software is filled with unnecessary features. However, ...