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This is most likely due to a selection process that favors either newsworthiness or trustworthiness. It’s a statistical artifact, see e.g. https://twitter.com/rlmcelreath/status/13…

Most implementations are actually moving in the opposite direction. Previously, there was a tendency to look to aggregate words into phrases to better capture the "context" of a wo…

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No reason to oversimplify and ignore a lot of important details — they're doing that for you!

I keep hearing about this surging tech scene around here but rarely hear about any new startups. Who is building something up here in Vancouver?

Survival modeling is exactly what's needed for these situations. It allows you to (a) consider censored data (i.e., active customers who you know stay for at least X months) and, (…

A quantile-based confidence interval from bootstrapping can yield a 100% confidence interval that does not contain 0, i.e., with 100% of cases positive/negative. But that does not …

Data security is hugely important. Here are a couple things we do to deal with it: (1) We cleanse the data of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) as quickly as possible (i.e., …

We were all drawn to applying the statistical, experimental, and algorithmic approaches we learned in graduate school (and in our spare time) to a range of problems in industry. Ev…

Author, here. In this post, I review the various ways that we put our email marketing optimization algorithm to the test, starting from simple sim environments in R, to scrappy rea…

Hey thanks! I'm Jacob's co-founder at Optimail. We only just launched yesterday, so I think we are still working to find that exact product-market fit. At the moment, however, we'r…

I'm excited to announce the public release of Strong Analytics' new product, Optimail.io. Optimail uses AI to send, manage, and optimize your drip email marketing campaigns. It's a…

To your first point, I'm not sure how this helps the sufferers. What they have shown is that there is a different neural signature correlating with a different emotional response. …

I never said it wasn't the first step, but it's heralded (by the media at least) as much more than that -- an explanation or a conclusion.

How is this an "explanation" or "cracking" the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been? More broadly, it…