While Model Trains

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Why is machine learning 'hard'?

S. Zayd Enam

"The difficulty is that machine learning is a fundamentally hard debugging problem. Debugging for machine learning happens in two cases: 1) your algorithm doesn't work or 2) your algorithm doesn't work well enough."

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Are Airbnb guests less energy efficient than their host?

Max Halford

A comparison of energy consumption between Airbnb guests and their host in the same apartment during 2022. Guess who consumes more!

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The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

Eugene Yan

Before applying machine learning, you should get to know the data and build heuristics.

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