While Model Trains

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Choose boring technology

Dan McKinley

On avoiding the excessive adoption of new technologies solely for the sake of it.

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A better lesson

Rodney Brooks

"So my take on Rich Sutton’s piece is that the lesson we should learn from the last seventy years of AI research is not at all that we should just use more computation and that always wins. "

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Prediction intervals for Random Forests

Ando Saabas

Prediction intervals are commonly used for linear models but are often underused for random forests. Leveraging the fact that a random forest can provide a conditional distribution instead of just the conditional mean makes prediction intervals relatively straightforward to use in this context.

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