While Model Trains

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Your first recurrent neural network (RNN)

Rodrigo Girão Serrão

A hands-on introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks in PyTorch.

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Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation

Gwern

"Despite this admonition, people are overconfident in claiming correlations to support favored causal interpretations and are surprised by the results of randomized experiments, suggesting that they are biased & systematically underestimate the prevalence of confounds / common-causation."

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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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