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What I Read: Improving AI Economics

By Andrew Fairless on January 18, 2021December 27, 2020

https://a16z.com/2020/08/12/taming-the-tail-adventures-in-improving-ai-economics/ Taming the Tail: Adventures in Improving AI Economicsby Martin Casado and Matt Bornstein “Many of the difficulties in building efficient AI companies happen when facing long-tailed distributions of data….Continue readingWhat I Read: Improving AI Economics

What I Read: Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End

By Andrew Fairless on January 17, 2021December 26, 2020

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/end-to-end-data-science/ Unpopular Opinion – Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End “Eric Colson of Stitch Fix was initially “lured to a function-based division of labour by the attraction of process efficiencies”…Continue readingWhat I Read: Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End

What I Read: Air pollution is worse than we thought

By Andrew Fairless on January 17, 2021December 26, 2020

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths Air pollution is much worse than we thoughtby David Roberts “The evidence is now clear enough that it can be stated unequivocally: It would be worth freeing ourselves fromContinue readingWhat I Read: Air pollution is worse than we thought

What I Read: Open-source bionic leg

By Andrew Fairless on January 16, 2021December 24, 2020

https://news.umich.edu/open-source-bionic-leg-first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-to-rapidly-advance-prosthetics/ Open-source bionic leg: First-of-its-kind platform aims to rapidly advance prosthetics “A new open-source, artificially intelligent prosthetic leg… is now available to the scientific community. The leg’s free-to-copy design andContinue readingWhat I Read: Open-source bionic leg

What I Read: Think Like an Epidemiologist

By Andrew Fairless on January 16, 2021December 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/science/coronavirus-bayes-statistics-math.html How to Think Like an EpidemiologistDon’t worry, a little Bayesian analysis won’t hurt you.By Siobhan RobertsAug. 4, 2020Updated 4:57 p.m. ET “Observing early research in March about how theContinue readingWhat I Read: Think Like an Epidemiologist

What I Read: Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward

By Andrew Fairless on January 15, 2021December 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/coronavirus-schools-tradeoffs.html When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly BackwardWe aren’t very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic.Aaron E. CarrollAug.Continue readingWhat I Read: Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward

What I Read: End-to-End Machine Learning Platforms

By Andrew Fairless on January 15, 2021December 24, 2020

https://databaseline.tech/a-tour-of-end-to-end-ml-platforms/ A Tour of End-to-End Machine Learning PlatformsIan Hellström21 February 2020 “What turns a collection of machine learning solutions into an end-to-end machine learning platform is an architecture that embracesContinue readingWhat I Read: End-to-End Machine Learning Platforms

What I Read: ScaNN, Efficient Vector Similarity Search

By Andrew Fairless on January 14, 2021December 23, 2020

https://www.googblogs.com/announcing-scann-efficient-vector-similarity-search/ Announcing ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity SearchPosted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research “Based on this intuition, we more heavily penalize quantization error that is parallel to the originalContinue readingWhat I Read: ScaNN, Efficient Vector Similarity Search

What I Read: R squared Does Not Measure Predictive Capacity

By Andrew Fairless on January 14, 2021December 23, 2020

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/07/r-squared-predictive-capacity-statistical-adequacy.html R squared Does Not Measure Predictive Capacity or Statistical AdequacyThe fact that R-squared shouldn’t be used for deciding if you have an adequate model is counter-intuitive and is rarelyContinue readingWhat I Read: R squared Does Not Measure Predictive Capacity

What I Read: Snorkel Tutorial to Predict Multiple Sclerosis

By Andrew Fairless on January 13, 2021December 23, 2020

https://medium.com/swlh/a-snorkel-tutorial-using-clinical-notes-to-predict-multiple-sclerosis-severity-scores-e3863801630f A Snorkel Tutorial Using Clinical Notes to Predict Multiple Sclerosis Severity ScoresNLP4HJul 13 “In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of using Snorkel to generate labels forContinue readingWhat I Read: Snorkel Tutorial to Predict Multiple Sclerosis

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