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Can you point to a good source on that? The stats books that I've seen seem to treat it as a collection of tools, and causality in computer science (AI) seems l
by jmugan 5y ago
Can you point to a good source on that? The stats books that I've seen seem to treat it as a collection of tools, and causality in computer science (AI) seems like a separate subfield with the do operator and all that.
- jkhdigital 5y agoI guess you may be familiar with Judea Pearl’s work already, but he did write a popular treatment of the subject in The Book of Why. I’m not trying to put computer scientists on a pedestal, but there is something about the uncompromising rigor that comes with putting abstractions inside brainless machines.
- eliasmacpherson 5y agoThanks for the tip, I'd read some material of his from the 1980s that helped me to start understanding bayesian networks, it inspired me to revisit my university statistics course which was fruitful. I am a sucker for pop sci!