Eric Alpert retweeted
1/ The year is 2003, and I’m in a bar questioning my life choices.
After months of travel and $100k+ in fees, our machine learning model failed badly on the test set.
Most ML efforts create no value. We should learn from those failures.
Here is a favorite of mine.
(attempt #2)
Eric Alpert retweeted
New blog post: For the past couple years, I've been telling people who ask me for advice not to go into data science. Here's why: The data science job market is way oversaturated. Here's what they should do instead.
veekaybee.github.io/2019/02/…
Eric Alpert retweeted
Data science leaders: there are too many of you! Here's why medium.com/@kozyrkov/data-sc…
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So proud of our amazing and ever-growing department! Faculty, staff, students, & alumni. #humblebrag cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-s…
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New data scientist definition: A data scientist is a statistician who is wearing a bow tie 😝
Eric Alpert retweeted
Got a useful reminder via email from @BaumerBen: good research starts with an interesting/important question, not a fancy tool or large data
Eric Alpert retweeted
As technologists, it's so important we learn from, & try not to reproduce, the inherent injustices of existing social structures #TCDisrupt teapawt.net/techcrunch/status/8057…
How do we train AI to not make the same mistakes that humans do? #TCDisrupt snpy.tv/2fZ7PXK
Eric Alpert retweeted
This is everything that is wrong with empirical economics. How can you confidently isolate an effect like this? Faux science. teapawt.net/ezraklein/status/80149…
