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Thought this was interesting. Across 160 teams of researchers, just about all failed to make good life outcome predictions on things like GPA, evictions, layoffs, and others. Data followed 4.5k families across 15 years, with 13k features (varied over time). Haven't looked at it directly yet, but will be turning the docs and data inside out... In the meantime, authors claim this as showing the limits of ML. Oh, and it's published in PNAS, so you know there's some big publication energy there.
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8398
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Funny, but I feel bad for the guy. Why didn’t they at least call him in to question him?
You live in a fantasy world if you think this can't possibly happen, more absurd things have happened
manLoad has been the name of a data set in a Fortune100 company’s financial reporting for a decade thanks to a late-night decision by me.
reminds me of our naming convention for assessed consumer/business fees: ass_bus_fee and ass_con_fee
I bet there's cumTime every time they benchmark their code
The variable name wasnt caught until 2 months later...BS
I’ve always used cumm and not cum. Never even occurred to me how it could be attributed to you know what. Some of us are really that unfamiliar with the other meanings of these words.