Doug Whitehead
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Doug Whitehead - data scientist, entrepreneur, developer - AI for healthcare - Azure cloud - Python, Spark, R.
USA
Joined October 2009
Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end up with different ways of crawling. Sometimes people tell me, "you say AI isn't intelligent until
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If you see yourself as a victim, you'll be convinced that the world views you that way too. The Dartmouth Scar Experiment reveals that. Participants thought they'd be interviewed for jobs with a fake scar on their face, which they saw being applied by a makeup artist. However,
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My "new book" is short textbook (volume 6), and is getting close to publication real soon now. But authors are chronically over-optimistic about when a book will be finished. My rule of thumb is multiply an estimate of finishing (say, two months) fourfold (8 months).
From my new book about Nonfiction and Truth. Data graphics on television, advertising, and second-rate news reports are going for cute. We've got a big truth problem, not a lack of cuteness problem.
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NLP grad students, don’t despair. ChatGPT is not the end of NLP research, it’s the beginning.
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OpenAI now gets more traffic than Twitch, Pinterest and Discord 😯
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Is this real?
My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby
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Some good points from a fellow old-timer https://t.co/t0LkH6vJpM
opendatascience.com
Here are 4 reasons that data science development tools suck, and a roadmap for how to fix it with ease. Get started today!
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Paid courses completely failed to teach me how machine learning works. I used to just import scikit-learn and call model. fit. So I spent 6 months studying the most popular models. Here are the 7 resources I used to get ahead:
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My first thought was, ok you have my attention now, that is going to change my workflow.
There was an audible "WOW" from the audience when @juliesquid showed how you can paste in DOI and automatically generate a citation.
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If there are 17 year olds here, me too
I just realised that I’ve been using #rstats for longer than some of the #rstudioconf attendees have been alive 😱
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Quant Theorists Are Paid to Delude Themselves, Cam Harvey Says - Bloomberg
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A hedge fund pursuing a trading strategy based on fantasy goes broke. A market researcher who does it, on the other hand, is apt to get tenure.
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During the past 80 years, the Fed has never lowered inflation as much as it is setting out to do now—by four percentage points—without causing recession. https://t.co/SvjvQx90HB
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Apple’s semiconductor operation is so big that it would rank as the world’s 12th-largest chip company by revenue. Here’s the risky road that got it there. https://t.co/ZZfu8NgjyQ via @WSJ
wsj.com
Apple’s risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon paid off when supply-chain disruptions left competitors scrambling.
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I love how things get spun. Musk offers to buy Twitter with cash he doesn’t really have. It’s reported as a hostile takeover.
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Registered. I'm looking forward to doing this seminar. I want to know ALL the econometrics. https://t.co/qV097ABdl8
statisticalhorizons.com
Explore causal inference in econometrics by analyzing observational data with regression, fixed effects, and IVs in this online course taught by Nick Huntington-Klein, Ph.D.
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