Software systems, more than any other engineering activity, create a technological world that results from social dynamics and constructs.
This is because the space of possibilities is much wider, and there are many more objects interacting than in other industrial endeavors.
Big thinkers of urban planning, designing spaces and cities accounting for interactions connected their thinking with sociology and related.
People thinking software at the ecosystem level probably should do the same.
Avec la #LoiImmigration, le gouvernement manie la xénophobie, et veut inscrire la discrimination dans la loi.
C'est le programme de l'extrême droite, un programme de division et non de construction, un programme qui met notre démocratie sur une pente dangereuse.
Une interview sur scikit-learn : la vision du projet, comment penser à l'impact, au lien avec la société, à la dynamique open-source... 45mn où je parle de ce qui nous motive, de ce que nous avons appris sur les données et l'humain...
Sphinx-gallery comes with awesome features such as
◼online execution with binder or jupyterlite
◼mini-galleries eg to link an object's docstring to its examples
Sampling bias in practice: conducting a survey on the Paris metro platform...
if you ask people where they get off, you'll get a different distribution depending on where on the platform you stand: people choose their position close to the exits at arrival.
I’ll be giving the online lecture on "Representation learning on relational data to automate data preparation" on November 15th, 7pm EEST at AIHouse Ukraine.
📑 "healthwashing": verb [ I or T ]
to make people believe that your computer-science grant or paper is about trying to improve health, while it really is an excuse to do maths and maybe you have a few biomedical signals on a thumb drive
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Selecting models for causal inference, choice of variables for best bias-variance tradeoff, and choice of a relevant summary statistics (not risk difference for binary outcomes)
Tomorrow in the Causal Machine Learning for Operational Decision Making workshop, I'll be giving a keynote on various results on individualizing treatment effet: how to select models, to choose covariates, and summary statistics https://upliftworkshop.ipipan.waw.pl