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A deeper theory of testing
- stevebmark 11y agoThere's a strange correlation between having an academic background and having poor communication skills to non-academics, for example writing a blog post like a white paper. This needs some major editing to make it approachable.
- JesperRavn 11y agoThere is also a correlation between having an academic background, and having specialized knowledge that is inherently hard to communicate with non-academics. Just because the format was a blog post, doesn't mean that the author was aiming at a general audience. Even if it was possible and desirable, the author might not have had time to flesh out all the concepts that are taken for granted in their field. I liked the general ideas in the blog. People think about these things informally all the time, but it's nice to see the ideas laid out systematically. Maybe you can wait for someone to write a blog expanding on these ideas for a more general audience, or write one yourself.
- ot 11y agoI highly recommend watching his talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Rn3EOEjGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Rn3EOEjGE), IMHO it was one of the best talks at the SF Data Science Summit earlier this year (if you care about the "why" more than the "how" :) )
- mallamanis 11y agohttp://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-reusable-holdout-preserving.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-reusable-ho... this seems relevant to the article.
- jmount 11y agoMoritz Hardt's work is really awesome. Hardt is co-author two of the newer approaches to re-using test data, which I think is going to be a very big thing in machine-learning/data-science.