Dan Shiebler

A solid laptop computer in 2018 has about 1TB (1000GB) of disk space, and the capability to store about 16GB of memory in RAM. In comparison, internet users in the United States generate about 3000TB of data every minute 1. An enormous amount of this data takes the form of... [Read More]

Introduction There’s a famous scene in the HBO show “The Wire” where the unscrupulous Deputy Commissioner Rawls is addressing the police colonels and majors, and he says: Gentlemen, the word from on high is that the felony rates district by district will decline by five percent before the end of... [Read More]

There are 2 closely related quantities in statistics - correlation (often referred to as \(R\)) and the coefficient of determination (often referred to as \(R^2\)). Today we’ll explore the nature of the relationship between \(R\) and \(R^2\), go over some common use cases for each statistic and address some misconceptions.... [Read More]

Deep neural networks are some of the most powerful learning algorithms that have ever been developed. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most complex. The hierarchical non-linear transformations that neural networks apply to data can be nearly impossible to understand. This problem is exacerbated by the non-determinism of neural... [Read More]

Let’s talk about making assumptions. Each time you form an opinion on something, you don’t re-examine each of the beliefs that contributed to that opinion. For example, when you order food at a restaurant, you pick the foods that you think will taste good. You don’t spend hours questioning the... [Read More]