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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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Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half

David Robinson

An analysis of tweets from Donald Trump and his staff during the 2016 US Election campaign.

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3 levels of complexity: How I approach data science storytelling

Susan Shu Chang

A framework for crafting storylines in talks: help the audience understand real life impacts, bridge the context to abstract or technical, technical deep dives exist to do something.

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