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Welcome to my site is a personal blog at duboue.net about startups, career and ai. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a companion to Breiman's 'Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures' paper, which it discusses. One commenter cites it for the point about out-of-sample predictive accuracy.
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What Hacker News says?
This is a great paper. Very long, but worth every bit of it. BTW, here is a recent blog post about the paper: http://duboue.net/blog27.html One of the key insights I took away was the importance of using out-of-sample predictive accuracy as a metric for regression tasks in statistics—just like in ML. The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient (based on data of the sample), which is akin t…
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on “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001) [pdf]”Submitted Have Humans Evolved to Be Inaccurate Decision Makers? as a story · 75 points
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