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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

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the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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The AIgent: Using Google’s BERT Language Model to Connect Writers & Representation

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In 2013, Robert Galbraith?—?an The most powerful approach for the first task is to use a ‘language model’ (LM), i.e. a statistical model of natural language. One way that we can get around this is to use the proportion of tags that fall into a given class as a measure of our degree of confidence in that class association.