While Model Trains

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How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major

Tim Hopper

"Given this description of how my schooling left me woefully unprepared for a career in data science, one might ask how I have had two jobs with that title. I can think of several (though probably not all) reasons."

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An intuition for Attention

Jay Mody

Developing an intuitive understanding of the key feature in the architecture of transformer neural networks.

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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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