While Model Trains

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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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20 ideas for better data visualization

Taras Bakusevych

A list of 20 tips for great data visualization, including "Always start a bar chart at a 0 baseline" and ""Pick a color palette that matches the nature of your data".

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In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia

Colin Morris

"Prize for least popular article of 2021 is shared by two articles which received exactly 3 probably-human pageviews."

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