AlphaStar
It’s time for our latest installation in the series on artificial intelligence agents beating humans at games that we thought were safe from the robots. In this case, the game is StarCraft, and the AI...
11 Mars 201922min
Are machine learning engineers the new data scientists?
For many data scientists, maintaining models and workflows in production is both a huge part of their job and not something they necessarily trained for if their background is more in statistics or ma...
4 Mars 201920min
Interview with Alex Radovic, particle physicist turned machine learning researcher
You’d be hard-pressed to find a field with bigger, richer, and more scientifically valuable data than particle physics. Years before “data scientist” was even a term, particle physicists were inventin...
25 Feb 201935min
K Nearest Neighbors
K Nearest Neighbors is an algorithm with secrets. On one hand, the algorithm itself is as straightforward as possible: find the labeled points nearest the point that you need to predict, and make a pr...
17 Feb 201916min
Not every deep learning paper is great. Is that a problem?
Deep learning is a field that’s growing quickly. That’s good! There are lots of new deep learning papers put out every day. That’s good too… right? What if not every paper out there is particularly go...
11 Feb 201917min
The Assumptions of Ordinary Least Squares
Ordinary least squares (OLS) is often used synonymously with linear regression. If you’re a data scientist, machine learner, or statistician, you bump into it daily. If you haven’t had the opportunity...
3 Feb 201925min
Quantile Regression
Linear regression is a great tool if you want to make predictions about the mean value that an outcome will have given certain values for the inputs. But what if you want to predict the median? Or the...
28 Jan 201921min
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
When data scientists use a linear regression to look for causal relationships between a treatment and an outcome, what they’re usually finding is the so-called average treatment effect. In other words...
20 Jan 201917min
