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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.
Posts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
Many is not enough: Counting simulations to bootstrap the right way
Previously, I encouraged readers to test different approaches to bootstrapped confidence interval (CI) estimation. Such testing can done by relying on the definition of CIs: Given an infinite number of independent samples from the same population, we expect a ci_level CI to contain the population parameter in exactly ci_level percent of the samples. Therefore, we run “many” simulations (num_simulations), where each simulation generates a random sample from the same population and runs the CI algorithm on the sample....
Software commodities are eating interesting data science work
The passage of time makes wizards of us all. Today, any dullard can make bells ring across the ocean by tapping out phone numbers, cause inanimate toys to march by barking an order, or activate remote devices by touching a wireless screen. Thomas Edison couldn’t have managed any of this at his peak—and shortly before his time, such powers would have been considered the unique realm of God. Rob Reid After On Being a data scientist can sometimes feel like a race against software innovations....
A day in the life of a remote data scientist
Earlier this year, I gave a talk titled A Day in the Life of a Remote Data Scientist at the Data Science Sydney meetup. The talk covered similar ground to a post I published on remote data science work, with additional details on my daily schedule and projects, some gifs and Sydney jokes, heckling by the audience, and a Q&A session. I managed to watch it a few months ago without cringing too much, so it’s about time to post it here....