https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/shedding-light-on-impossibility-theorems Shedding light on “Impossibility Theorems for Feature Attribution”: Is SHAP doomed?Christoph MolnarJun 18, 2024 “tl;dr: Don’t use SHAP for counterfactual questions or any questions about “slightly changing feature values
What I Read: passively learned, causality
What can be passively learned about causality?Simons InstituteAndrew Lampinen (Google DeepMind)Jun 25, 2024 “What could language models learn about causality and experimentation from their passive training?”
What I Read: artificial intelligence really hard
https://thegradient.pub/why-transformative-artificial-intelligence-is-really-really-hard-to-achieve/ Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieveArjun Ramani and Zhengdong Wang26.Jun.2023“1. The transformational potential of AI is constrained by its hardest problems
What I Read: missing data mechanisms
https://cameronpatrick.com/post/2023/06/untangling-mar-mcar-mnar/ Understanding missing data mechanisms using causal DAGsCameron PatrickJune 28, 2023 “Correctly analysing datasets that have missing data requires extra care and consideration to produce correct results.”
What I Read: ELT Schedules, Root Cause Analysis
https://www.montecarlodata.com/how-elt-schedules-can-improve-root-cause-analysis-for-data-engineers/ How ELT Schedules Can Improve Root Cause Analysis For Data EngineersRyan KearnsUpdated December 9, 2022 “In this article, Ryan Kearns… discusses the limitations of segmentation analysis when it comes
What I Read: Causal Inference
https://thegradient.pub/causal-inference-connecting-data-and-reality/ Causal Inference: Connecting Data and RealityWenwen Ding04.Sep.2022 “Causal inference is a theory that describes, discriminates, and measures causal relationships, developed from statistics.”
What I Read: Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite Work
https://nickch-k.github.io/SomeThoughts/posts/2022-01-23-overdebunked/ Overdebunked! Six Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite WorkWhen healthy skepticism of statistics turns into worse statistics (and an excuse).Nick Huntington-KleinJan. 23, 2022 “Skepticism about statistics is good. However, just
What I Read: Experiment without the wait
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/experiment-without-the-wait-speeding-up-the-iteration-cycle-with-offline-replay-experimentation-7a4a95fa674b Pinterest EngineeringJan 18Experiment without the wait: Speeding up the iteration cycle with Offline Replay ExperimentationMaxine Qian | Data Scientist, Experimentation and Metric Sciences“Online experimentation is often used to evaluate