Henry KimThe artillery problem, again…This is a fascinating article, pertaining to the problem of how we “know”:Jul 5, 20181Jul 5, 20181
Henry KimAn Article Worth Reading…The takeaway is that the questions necessarily come before the answers. The idea that we can just let the data tell us the “right answers”…Jul 5, 2018Jul 5, 2018
Henry KimThe Trouble with (New) Atheism (NOT from a believer’s perspective)Most critiques of atheists and atheism is written from a believer’s perspective and focus on God. This is problematic. If the existence of…Jun 3, 2018Jun 3, 2018
Henry KimRight Answers, Humans, and the Turing TestLong ago, I had wondered whether humans could actually pass the Turing test, given how they are “trained.” Now, there are excited talks…May 18, 2018May 18, 2018
Henry KimDiversity in Models/Institutions vs. Diversity in AnswersThis post is a reflection on this article from the Economist. One quote that baffles many who read this is the following:May 12, 20182May 12, 20182
Henry KimPersuasion and StatisticsSuppose you believe that the mean of the “truth” is X, then you see a large set of observations whose mean is Y !=X. Do you still believe…May 5, 20181May 5, 20181
Henry KimThe Paradox of Dog-Biting ManThe recent accident involving the self-driving car in Arizona made me wonder a bit about the distributional consequences of machine…Mar 25, 2018Mar 25, 2018
Henry KimError Avoidance vs. Error Reduction, or Statistics vs. Data Science (again)I don’t think I ever realized what N. N. Taleb might have meant by “My field is error avoidance” until I had a chance to reflect on Branko…Feb 5, 20181Feb 5, 20181
Henry KimBeyond Techniques: Perspectives behind Statistical Learning, Science, StatisticsOne of the things that I’ve been noticing time and again is that “data science” is not really “science,” but, in some sense, exactly the…Jan 25, 20181Jan 25, 20181
Henry KimBeyond Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Taking (Real) Variance seriouslyThe introduction to the so-called “regularization” problem always starts by invoking the bias-variance tradeoff. The intuition is fairly…Jan 25, 2018Jan 25, 2018