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Evolution of ML Fact Store

Vivek Kaushal

How Netflix designed Axion, their fact store utilized for computing ML features online, and the lessons learned throughout the process.

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How Dangerous Is Biking in New York?

Gregory Gundersen

Estimating the probability of a fatal injury occurring during bike commuting to work in New York.

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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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