In the News
Why too much evidence can be a bad thing
Fascinating look at the "paradox of unanimity." When the evidence seems too good to be true, it just might be.
Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal?
Bayes’s theorem, touted as a powerful method for generating knowledge, can also be used to promote superstition and pseudoscience
Inside OpenAI: Will Transparency Protect Us From Artificial Intelligence Run Amok?
OpenAI has lofty goals and a billion dollars in initial funding. In this interview, Andrej Karpathy discusses the origins of the project and what its nascent team really hopes to do.
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Projects
Combine Python scikit-learn with Unity3D. And Stir Vigorously.
Immersive Analytics is an open community that aims to design and build data worlds. Check out this post about using scikit-learn with the Unity 3D game engine and then head over to the home page for more info about the overall vision. There are some interesting opportunities here.
Tools and Techniques
Guesstimate - A spreadsheet for things that aren't certain
Guesstimate is a spreadsheet that works for uncertain values. For any cell you can enter confidence intervals that can represent full probability distributions. 5000 Monte Carlo simulations are performed to find the output interval for each equation, all in the browser.
Machine Learning is Fun!
This two-part tutorial is for anyone who is curious about machine learning but has no idea where to start. The goal is be accessible to anyone, which means that there are a lot of generalizations but this is a worthwhile introduction. The newly released Part 2 uses neural nets to create Super Mario Maker levels. Fun read!
Jobs
Recent Listings:
- Data Scientist at SparkBeyond.
- Senior Algorithm Developer at Adience.
- Data Facility/IT Systems Engineer at NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress.
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