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| When Marvel Comics signed an exclusive contract with Penguin Random House, it was for comic book sales to comic book stores in the direct market – but also expanded that direct market to include bookstores that previously hadn't had access to it. However, Marvel's graphic novels and collections distributed to the sale-or-return bookstore market were still behind handled exclusively by Hachette. So we were left with the word position where comic shops and bookstores went to Penguin Random House for most of the comics…

The comics distribution wars are still going strong. Marvel Comics announced today a new exclusive book market distribution deal with Penguin Random House Publisher Services. The deal will see PRHPS exclusively distribute Marvel collected editions and graphic novels to the bookstore market. The publisher’s titles have previously been distributed to bookstores by Hachette since 2010. The announcement comes over a year after Marvel announced they would be shifting their direct market distribution for single issue comics…

| Penguin Random House Comcis Retail is the exclusive Marvel Comics distributor for the direct market of comic books, but thy still let Diamond Comic distributors sub-distribute to comic shops who prefer to stay with them. I have been aware, in recent months of a number of retailers returning to diamond at as middle-man even though there are higher costs associated with that, for more reliability and less paperwork, sometimes just as a back up for when there are problems with PRH. Well, Penguin Random House appears to…

What is a decision tree? What is a random forest? How do they decide to split the data? How do they predict class labels in classification tasks? Everything explained in 10 minutes.A visual example of a random forest consisting of 3 decision trees (Source).Hi folks! I hope you are doing well. I have intented to write this post for a long time, so here it is! Let’s get started!Random forests is an ensemble learning method for classification, regression and other tasks . It is a very well-known machine learning (ML)…

LCE: Local Cascade EnsemblePhoto by David Bruyndonckx on Unsplash.Over the past years, Random Forest and XGBoost have emerged to be the best performing machine learning methods in addressing many challenges of classification and regression. Practitioners are faced with the recurrent question: which one should we choose for our given dataset? Local Cascade Ensemble (LCE) is a new machine learning method which proposes to answer this question. It combines their strengths and adopts a complementary diversification…

DNA is known to mutate regularly, for better or worse, driving both evolution and disease. Researchers at the University of Surrey have now found evidence that some of these spontaneous mutations could be caused by the spooky realm of quantum mechanics.DNA gets its famous double helix shape from molecules called bases that pair up through hydrogen bonds. These bases, denoted by the letters A,C, T and G, usually follow strict rules about how they link up – A bonds to T and C bonds to G. But sometimes these hydrogen bonds…