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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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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

It surpasses blockchain and metaverse projects, which are viewed as experimental or in the pilot stage, especially by established enterprises. higher [in 2022] than in 2017.” Information governance enables enterprises to achieve strategic goals, mitigate risk, and reduce costs.

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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 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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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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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? All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. What Are the Risks? Copyright violation is another risk. That doesn’t mean that they’ve done a perfect job.

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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.