Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman was American singer-songwriter (and novelist, humorist, politician, and magazine columnist) Richard Samet Friedman (born in Chicago on 31 October 1944; died 26 June 2024) remembered for how he styled himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain. His nickname "Kinky" was because of his curly hair. He also performed and recorded as Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. Born to Jewish parents, Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and his wife Minnie (Samet) Friedm

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5 total works indexed

1. The Elements of Statistical Learning

   · 2009 · cited 22,207x

2. Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.

   · 2001 · cited 20,548x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,157x

4. Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent

   · 2010 · cited 13,917x

5. The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

   · 2000 · cited 11,603x

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Quotes

• “Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.”
• “"Poly" means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.”
• “Find what you like, and let it kill you.”

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