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Bing's interpretation of _an otter coding furiously in an attempt to pass a coding test_

How hackable are automated coding assessments?

Exploring the hackability of speed-based coding tests, using CodeSignal’s Industry Coding Framework as a case study.

May 26, 2023 · Yanir Seroussi
[Mage](https://www.mage.space/)'s interpretation of _horse versus car minimalistic_

Remaining relevant as a small language model

Bing Chat recently quipped that humans are small language models. Here are some of my thoughts on how we small language models can remain relevant (for now).

April 21, 2023 · Yanir Seroussi
[Mage](https://www.mage.space/)'s interpretation of _human brain expanding_

ChatGPT is transformative AI

My perspective after a week of using ChatGPT: This is a step change in finding distilled information, and it’s only the beginning.

December 11, 2022 · Yanir Seroussi
[DALL·E](https://labs.openai.com/)'s _steampunk painting of a data scientist reading a book about causal machine learning_.

Causal Machine Learning is off to a good start, despite some issues

Reviewing the first three chapters of the book Causal Machine Learning by Robert Osazuwa Ness.

September 12, 2022 · Yanir Seroussi

The mission matters: Moving to climate tech as a data scientist

Discussing my recent career move into climate tech as a way of doing more to help mitigate dangerous climate change.

June 6, 2022 · Yanir Seroussi

Building useful machine learning tools keeps getting easier: A fish ID case study

Lessons learned building a fish ID web app with fast.ai and Streamlit, in an attempt to reduce my fear of missing out on the latest deep learning developments.

March 20, 2022 · Yanir Seroussi

Analysis strategies in online A/B experiments: Intention-to-treat, per-protocol, and other lessons from clinical trials

Epidemiologists analyse clinical trials to estimate the intention-to-treat and per-protocol effects. This post applies their strategies to online experiments.

January 14, 2022 · Yanir Seroussi
If you don't think about your modelling context, you're gonna have a bad time.

Use your human brain to avoid artificial intelligence disasters

Overview of a talk I gave at a deep learning course, focusing on AI ethics as the need for humans to think on the context and consequences of applying AI.

November 22, 2021 · Yanir Seroussi

Migrating from WordPress.com to Hugo on GitHub + Cloudflare

My reasons for switching from WordPress.com to Hugo on GitHub + Cloudflare, along with a summary of the solution components and migration process.

November 10, 2021 · Yanir Seroussi

Some highlights from 2020

My track record of posting here has been pretty poor in 2020, partly because of a bunch of content I’ve contributed elsewhere. In general, my guiding principle for posting is to only add stuff I’d want to read or cite, e.g., because I haven’t seen it discussed elsewhere. Well, no one has compiled a meta-post of my public work from 2020 (that I know of), so it’s finally time to publish it myself....

April 5, 2021 · Yanir Seroussi