Mar 29 · 16 min read · In the MLE tutorial, we estimated a coin's bias by finding the single parameter value that maximises the likelihood. Flip a coin 3 times, get 3 heads, and MLE says \(\hat{\theta} = 1.0\) — the coin al
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Mar 26 · 15 min read · You've collected data and you have a model in mind — maybe a Gaussian, maybe a coin flip. But the model has parameters, and you need to find the values that best explain what you observed. How? Maximu
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Mar 20 · 14 min read · Everyone remembers where they were when "data scientist" was declared the sexiest job of the 21st century. It was 2012, Harvard Business Review had just published the now-legendary article, and sudden
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Feb 28 · 2 min read · Survivorship Bias: Learning From the Dead We study successful companies, winning strategies, and surviving soldiers -- but we systematically ignore the failures. This survivorship bias gives us a dangerously distorted picture of what actually works. ...
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