AI is progressing at a fast and furious pace. Over twenty years ago, IBM’s Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov at chess. Seven years ago, IBM’s Watson beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy. Last year, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat world champ Ke Jie at Go. And just two days ago, moving to…

One of the first things people working in data science / machine learning have to grapple with is that our claims are predictive, not inferential. Instead of making careful, logical moves from one clear, proven claim to another, we mix together a set of features, build a model, and then…