Troubling Trends In Machine Learning Scholarship
There's a lot of great machine learning papers coming out every day--and, if we're being honest, some papers that are not as great as we'd wish. In some ways this is symptomatic of a field that's grow...
6 Aug 201829min
Can Fancy Running Shoes Cause You To Run Faster?
The stars aligned for me (Katie) this past weekend: I raced my first half-marathon in a long time and got to read a great article from the NY Times about a new running shoe that Nike claims can make i...
29 Jul 201828min
Compliance Bias
When you're using an AB test to understand the effect of a treatment, there are a lot of assumptions about how the treatment (and control, for that matter) get applied. For example, it's easy to think...
22 Jul 201823min
AI Winter
Artificial Intelligence has been widely lauded as a solution to almost any problem. But as we justapose the hype in the field against the real-world benefits we see, it raises the question: Are we com...
15 Jul 201819min
Rerelease: How to Find New Things to Learn
We like learning on vacation. And we're on vacation, so we thought we'd re-air this episode about how to learn. Original Episode: https://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2017/5/14/how-to-find-new-thin...
8 Jul 201818min
Rerelease: Space Codes
We're on vacation on Mars, so we won't be communicating with you all directly this week. Though, if we wanted to, we could probably use this episode to help get started. Original Episode: http://line...
2 Jul 201824min
Rerelease: Anscombe's Quartet
We're on vacation, so we hope you enjoy this episode while we each sip cocktails on the beach. Original Episode: http://lineardigressions.com/episodes/2017/6/18/anscombes-quartet Original Summary: A...
25 Jun 201816min
Rerelease: Hurricanes Produced
Now that hurricane season is upon us again (and we are on vacation), we thought a look back on our hurricane forecasting episode was prudent. Stay safe out there.
18 Jun 201828min
