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What does "Bayesian" mean?
Think of it as a simulation engine
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Thomas Vladeck

January 2022

What is the normal distribution, anyway?
It's surprisingly weird, at least in high dimensions
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Thomas Vladeck

November 2021

Enterprise value vs. market cap
The importance of knowing what your statistic means
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Thomas Vladeck
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October 2021

Friday open thread
Trying something a little bit different today: what subjects would you like to see me write about? Any topics of particular interest? Any posts …
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Prediction is all there is
The false dichotomy between prediction and inference
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Thomas Vladeck
What math stuff should we teach the kids?
Certainly not chi-squared tests of association
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Thomas Vladeck
Come work with me
Two hires at Recast: Infrastructure engineer and data scientist
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Thomas Vladeck
A win for causal inference
But a miss as well; thoughts on the Nobel Prize in Economics
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Thomas Vladeck
So, were all those multi-touch attribution models validated?
The natural experiment of the Facebook outage
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Thomas Vladeck
No, ML is not "just statistics"
Debugging an oft-repeated bad take
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Thomas Vladeck

August 2021

Going beyond probabilities
Decision-making in the face of deeper uncertainty
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Thomas Vladeck
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Making better decisions with statistics
Three principles to keep in mind
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Thomas Vladeck
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