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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

To find optimal values of two parameters experimentally, the obvious strategy would be to experiment with and update them in separate, sequential stages. Our experimentation platform supports this kind of grouped-experiments analysis, which allows us to see rough summaries of our designed experiments without much work.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV. Adrian Weller (2017-07-29). “ That’s a risk in case, say, legislators – who don’t understand the nuances of machine learning – attempt to define a single meaning of the word interpret. Challenges for Transparency ”. Riccardo Guidotti, et al.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence). Ensure a culture that supports a steady process of learning and experimentation.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly on Data

What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? There are more that I haven’t listed, and there will be even more by the time you read this report. All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017.

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Transforming IT for cloud success

CIO Business Intelligence

So Holden, who has been CIO at Halfords — the UK’s largest retailer of motoring and cycling products and services — since 2017, developed a strategy to reorganize his tech team. ASU started its cloud journey a decade ago with experiments, before becoming more strategic and aggressive about cloud adoption when Gonick became CIO in 2017.

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Topics to watch at the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly on Data

So, we used a form of the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF/IDF) technique to identify and rank the top terms in this year’s Strata NY proposal topics—as well as those for 2018, 2017, and 2016. 2) is unchanged from Strata NY 2018, it’s up three places from Strata NY 2017—and eight places relative to 2016. 221) to 2019 (No.

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