Bintong Chen is Thinking About Posting on Twitter
Here is a picture of Bintong: He is one of the most brilliant minds on the planet. Reach out to him and tell him you want him to post on Twitter. His thoughts need sharing.
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Penetrating machine learning’s black box
“Despite widespread adoption, machine learning models remain mostly black boxes. Understanding the reasons behind predictions is, however, quite important in assessing trust, which is fundamental if one plans to take action based on a prediction, or when choosing whether to… Continue Reading
Betancourt: Insights into prior distributions
Michael Betancourt – Github Repo Getting a prior distribution to mimic your beliefs is not always that easy. Michael Betancourt addresses two big isuses: 1) Weakly infomative priors for principled regularization 2) Mixture models to integrate multiple data generating processes.… Continue Reading
Helpful links on teaching decision theory and Bayesian statistics
This post will be updated on an ongoing basis. For now, I wanted to create a repository to store Andrew Gelman’s teaching ideas that I came across: Gelman, A., & Glickman, M. E. (2000). Some class-participation demonstrations for introductory probability and… Continue Reading
100 Problem Statements for FinTech
(source: Hackcelerator) These problem statements were used to provide an overview of how the financial industry is looking to use technology in financial services and is a catalogue of 100 industry problem statements. They are separated by 10 topics and a… Continue Reading