
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
Here’s a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), “If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the invariant ones […]
Who made this? ??…??…?? pic.twitter.com/TgTiYBpMMy — Drew Conway (@drewconway) June 22, 2018 This meme which heads today’s post (see discussion under this tweet a modification of an original cartoon) expresses the true […]
We discussed this before, but since it has come up recently in personal discussions, I wanted to offer this clarification. Suppose we’re in a standard epidemiological situation, or even a planned experiment, […]
Item Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women (Thanks to Mark Charters for the tip.) Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine […]
Dear reader, though you won’t believe it, there is such a thing as the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. When you search its name, Google shows you this: The Journal […]
Yep I’ve disagreed with Judea Pearl before on causality, and I do so again below; but first some areas of agreement. Some deep agreement at that. Pearl has a new book out […]
As we learned before, hate facts “are true statements about reality that our elites demand remain occult and unuttered.” The problem is that hate facts will routinely pop up in statistical (a.k.a. […]
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