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Could Shopify be right in requiring teams to demonstrate why AI can’t do a job before approving new human hires? Will companies that prioritize AI solutions eventually evolve into AI entities with significantly fewer employees? These are open-ended questions that have puzzled me about where such transformations might leave us in our quest for Knowledge and ‘truth’

In regression models, the independent variables must be not or only slightly dependent on each other, i.e. that they are not correlated. However, if such a dependency exists, this is referred to as Multicollinearity and leads to unstable models and results that are difficult to interpret. The variance inflation factor is a decisive metric for

As data professionals, we’re comfortable with tabular data… Tabular data. Image by Author. We can also handle words, json, xml feeds, and pictures of cats. But what about a cardboard box full of things like this? (Image by Annie Spratt, Unsplash) The info on this receipt wants so badly to be in a tabular database

Is there anything more frustrating than building a powerful data model but then struggling to turn it into a tool stakeholders can use to achieve their desired outcome? Data Science has never been short on potential but is also never short on complexity. You can refine algorithms that shine on curated datasets but still face

This article is part of a series of articles on automating data cleaning for any tabular dataset: Effortless Spreadsheet Normalisation With LLM You can test the feature described in this article on your own dataset using the CleanMyExcel.io service, which is free and requires no registration. What is Data Validity? Data validity refers to data

This is the first in a multi-part series on creating web applications with Generative Ai integration. Table of Contents Introduction The Virtues of the Application Layer Thick Wrappers The Return of Clippy Getting Stuff Done While You Sleep Introduction The AI space is a vast and complicated landscape. Matt Turck famously does his Machine Learning, AI,

Recently, Sesame AI published a demo of their latest Speech-to-Speech model. A conversational AI agent who is really good at speaking, they provide relevant answers, they speak with expressions, and honestly, they are just very fun and interactive to play with. Note that a technical paper is not out yet, but they do have a

In my previous articles, I have spent a lot of time talking about the technical aspects of an Image Classification problem from data collection, model evaluation, performance optimization, and a detailed look at model training. These elements require a certain degree of in-depth expertise, and they (usually) have well-defined metrics and established processes that are within our control. Now it’s time

This article is co-authored by Felipe Bandeira, Giselle Fretta, Thu Than, and Elbion Redenica. We also thank Prof. Carl Scheffler for his support. Introduction Parameter estimation has been for decades one of the most important topics in statistics. While frequentist approaches, such as Maximum Likelihood Estimations, used to be the gold standard, the advance of