While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

Legible SQL

Vicki Boykis

Some tips on how to write SQL queries that are legible to other humans.

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Understanding the beta distribution (using baseball statistics)

David Robinson

"The beta distribution is best for representing a probabilistic distribution of probabilities- the case where we don’t know what a probability is in advance, but we have some reasonable guesses."

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The Bitter Lesson

Richard Sutton

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."

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