Obsession with Regression

Monday, September 3, 2018

Playboy, kittens, and deep learning

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It was nearing midnight and it had been a long day, but I was excited. In the morning I had been reading about conv nets, a powerful deep le...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Is Work Enough?

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I wrote this piece three years ago and never published it. But I returned to it recently and it still resonates with me (though a lot has c...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Disagreeing without disliking each other

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...increasingly seems to be impossible. Democrats dislike Republicans; Republicans dislike Democrats; even within liberal enclaves, very li...
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Friday, December 8, 2017

No, Scott Alexander, the focus on powerful men’s sexual assaults is not “a hit job” on men

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I want to rebut a recent piece in which Scott Alexander, a widely read blogger, criticizes the focus on sexual assaults committed by power...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Testing for discrimination in college admissions

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Recently, the Trump administration’s investigation into racial discrimination in college admissions has brought the topic back into the ne...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

Proving discrimination from personal experience

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Here’s an interaction you might’ve participated in: Member of minority group: I just had [negative interaction] with John. I don’t th...
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Emma Pierson
I love using statistics to make sense of the world. I'm at Stanford doing a PhD in computer science after spending a year studying statistics at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and a year as a researcher at Coursera and 23andMe.
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