Purpose of scikit-learn is to split the data

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Jiuqi Chen was born in Beijing, China, on November 19th, 1999. She went to the U.S. to study at Dartmouth College. She had a strong interest in Mathematics and computer science. During her time at Dartmouth, she took several computer science courses, including CS 74, from which she learned basic concepts and models in the area of machine learning and statistical analysis.

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Cultural Context: It is common for scenes in the cartoon Rick and Morty to be adapted into a meme. This meme origin from Season 1 Episode 9, where Rick, the old man, made the robot. The robot asked intelligently ‘what is my purpose’, and when Rick told the robot its purpose is to ‘pass the butter’, the robot sighed ‘Oh my god’ in upset. Scikit-learn (formerly scikits.learn and also known as sklearn) is a free software machine learning library for the Python programming language. It features various classification, regression, and clustering algorithms that are essential in machine learning. Splitting the data is the most basic step in machine learning models.
Social Context: train_test_split is the most commonly used function in the sklearn library, while Scikit-learn featured various complicated models. This meme is making fun of this fact, feeling unworthy that only the most basic function in such a powerful library is used.

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Collector’s Name: Jiuqi Chen

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