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, […]
Statistics Vs. Artificial Intelligence
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 […]
Another AI Exaggeration: It Can Say Why There Is Religious Conflict
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 […]
Amazon’s AI Proves Men Better Than Women At Tech Jobs
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 […]
Judea Pearl Is Wrong On AI Identifying Causality, But Right That AI Is Nothing But Curve Fitting
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 […]
Researchers Forced To Teach Algorithms To Reject Hate Facts
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. […]
Free Data Science Class: Predictive Case Study 1, Part V
Review! This class is neither frequentist nor Bayesian nor machine learning in theory. It is pure probability, and unlike any other class available. And for the right price! We have all we […]
Predictive Probability Resources, Why Frequentism Fails & Uncertainty
From the mailbag, reader I.W. writes: Dear Professor, I represent social science (but of a priori bent), and I recently got really hooked on frequentialism. After all, prof. Mises employed it as […]
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