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"You may have heard the phrase the plural of anecdote is not data. It turns out that this is a misquote. The original aphorism, by the political scientist Ray Wolfinger, was just the opposite: The plural of anecdote is data." htt
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A palindromic poem for Douglas Hofstadter(juliagalef.com)
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"Machine Learning Algorithms that Matter , like Machine Translation, Spam Filter or Cat Generation, will find its way inside a Web Browser." https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/834607972923748353
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Looks like Chapter 15 in the Causal Inference Book agrees with you: “Outcome regression and various versions of propensity score analyses are the most commonly used parametric methods for causal inference. You may rightly wonder why it took
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Adam, I've been using Machine Learning Is Fun Part 1 at work, to introduce non-technical business leaders to supervised machine learning concepts. Thanks for the great series!
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AudioSet: A massive dataset of 2M manually annotated audio events(research.google.com)
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Have you seen the new paper, “Human Decisions and Machine Predictions”? http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/w23180.pdf I'm wondering if their methodology is reasonable? From the abstract: “Mil
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> I still find most of the mechanics rather shady. Interesting, can you expand on this? I have no experience with causal inference and would like to learn more. Thanks!
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The Introvert’s Guide to Status Games(medium.com)
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The Monk Who Saves Manuscripts from ISIS(theatlantic.com)
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Reproducible Data Analysis in Jupyter(jakevdp.github.io)
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Code: https://github.com/ctford/african-polyphony-and-polyrhythm
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African Polyphony & Polyrhythm(youtube.com)
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15 years later: "Police believe Hogue, a notorious con man who once posed as a high school student when he was 26 years old, built a cabin above the Shadow Mountain Condominiums atop Aspen Street near Lift 1A, and lived there for an un
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Style transfer and generative adversarial networks have worked well with images. How can these be applied to music?
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Along those lines, here's a quick read about how "life is a bandit problem." "When you have more information about what works and what doesn’t, you shift to spending the majority of your time pulling the best lever (expl
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“The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not.” —G.K. Chesterton
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Also relevant? "Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks" https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-some-men-pretend-to-work-80-hour...
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Seymour Papert's Mindstorms is now freely available(mindstorms.media.mit.edu)
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How to read research papers & math notation http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/p... http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_I_2.pdf
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I'm very excited for this in Part 2: "A key teaching goal for us is that you come away from the course feeling much more comfortable reading, understanding, and implementing research papers. We’ll be sharing some simple tricks tha
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Tuning Systems(musicinformationretrieval.com)
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https://remoteok.io/
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Nice! You might like these links too. "Machine Learning Meets Economics", uses manufacturing quality as an example. http://blog.mldb.ai/blog/posts/2016/01/ml-meets-economics/ http:/&
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For another option, similar to the Udacity course, I recommend this: http://www.dataschool.io/machine-learning-with-scikit-learn/
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Statistics for Hackers [video](youtube.com)
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Awesome, thanks for sharing! A JavaScript notebook with D3 is just what I've been wanting. I'm wondering, what are the pros & cons of Kajero compared to using JavaScript in Jupyter or Beaker? https://news.ycombinato
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> How does one 'deliberately practice' writing? See Venkatesh Rao's Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tips-for-advanced-writer... “Writing is a skill like any other, and the famous 10,000 h
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Machine Learning that Matters (2012)(arxiv.org)
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Very true. And for some skills, like juggling specifically, even the very top might not be good enough: "Why did Anthony Gatto, the greatest juggler alive — and perhaps of all time — back away from his art to open a construction busine

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