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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. Here, $X$ is a vector of tuning parameters that control the system's operating characteristics (e.g.

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Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

Occam's Razor

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. And yet, chances are you really don’t know anyone directly who uses experimentation as a part of their regular business practice. Wah wah wah waaah.

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Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics

Depict Data Studio

— Thank you to Ann Emery, Depict Data Studio, and her Simple Spreadsheets class for inviting us to talk to them about the use of statistics in nonprofit program evaluation! But then we realized that much of the time, statistics just don’t have much of a role in nonprofit work. Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

He plans to scale his company’s experimental generative AI initiatives “and evolve into an AI-native enterprise” in 2024. Build better business alignment Multiple CIOs plan to strengthen their ties to other functional areas in ’24, building on the work they’ve done in recent years to create even more synergy. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly on Data

ChatGPT, or something built on ChatGPT, or something that’s like ChatGPT, has been in the news almost constantly since ChatGPT was opened to the public in November 2022. What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? A quick scan of the web will show you lots of things that ChatGPT can do. It’s much more.

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Uncertainties: Statistical, Representational, Interventional

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature. Among these, only statistical uncertainty has formal recognition.

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AI poised to replace entry-level positions at large financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Right now most organizations tend to be in the experimental phases of using the technology to supplement employee tasks, but that is likely to change, and quickly, experts say. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for a future of AI organizational disruptions that remain to be seen, according to the firm.