While Model Trains

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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model

Erik Bernhardsson

"People estimate the median completion time well, but not the mean."

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Confession of a so-called AI expert

Chip Huyen

"Even though I’m one of the beneficiary of this AI craze, I can’t help but thinking this will burst. I don’t know how and when, but I have this belief that the system is currently being rigged in favor of people whose resumes dotted with fancy keywords like mine, and a rigged system can’t be sustainable."

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From both sides now: the math of linear regression

Katherine Bailey

A journey starting from the standard formulation of linear regression, moving on to the probabilistic approach, and then progressing to Bayesian linear regression.

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