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Best links of the week from April 20th to August 1st (sorry for the delay 🙂 )

Links

1. What is the difference between beta and correlation coefficient? at Quora.
2. Is linear regression obsolete? at Cross Validated.
3. Are linear models still useful at all? at r/datascience.
4. Why Momentum Really Works at Distill.
5. Who Learns Better Bayesian Network Structures: Constraint-Based, Score-based or Hybrid Algorithms?.
6. Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable (with even a cool session on Shapley values).
7. The Open-Source Movement Comes to Medical Datasets at Stanford HAI.

Blog posts

1. How, When, and Why Should You Normalize / Standardize / Rescale Your Data? at Towards AI.
2. Gentle Introduction to Vector Norms in Machine Learning at Machine Learning Mastery.
3. Taleb is wrong about IQ at jsmp’s blog.
4. Ergodicity: A Simple Explanation of Ergodic vs. Non-ergodic Systems at Taylor Pearson’s blog.
5. O que os dados de votos na câmara falam sobre os deputados federais? (depois de 2 anos de mandato) at Caio Caminoski’s LinkedIn Profile.
6. Top 10 Ideas in Statistics That Have Powered the AI Revolution at Andrew Gelman’s Blog.
7. Why convexity is the key to optimization by NVS Yashwanth at Towards Data Science.
8. Revisão por pares: ruim com ela, pior sem ela at Ciência Fundamental.
9. Introducing the do-sampler for causal inference by Adam Kelleher and Amit Sharma at Adam Kelleher‘s Medium.
10. The Data Processing Inequality at Adam Kelleher‘s Medium.
11. What do AB tests actually measure? at Adam Kelleher‘s Medium.
12. Erro de medida e ‘atenuação’ dos efeitos estimados at Análise Real.
13. Andrew Gelman was interviewed here about a comment he submitted to Nature and was in the link above.

Videos

1. MINI-LESSON: Breaking down intuitively the concept of standard deviation. Why people don’t get it at N N Taleb’s Probability Moocs (YouTube Channel).
2. MINI LESSON: Correlation, the intuition. Doesn’t mean what people usually think it means at N N Taleb’s Probability Moocs (YouTube Channel).
3. Intransitivity of correlation, another mistake in psychoBS at N N Taleb’s Probability Moocs (YouTube Channel).
4. Medidas de ASSIMETRIA: Para que servem e como calculá-las? – Noções de Estatística #9 at A Ciência da Estatística.
5. Quais são as principais medidas de DISPERSÃO? – Noções de Estatística #6 at A Ciência da Estatística.
6. Coeficiente de CURTOSE: para que serve e como calculá-lo? Noções de Estatística #10 at A Ciência da Estatística.
7. Regression: Homoscedasticity (Every observed value has a friend) Playlist 1 at The Essence of Regression.
8. Testing the Homoscedasticity and Linearity Assumptions (Playlist 1) at The Essence of Regression.
9. Multicollinearity (Playlist 1) at The Essence of Regression.
10. Causalidade de Granger: ovo, galinha e causalidade at Prof. Diogenes S. BIDO’s YouTube Channel.
11. Videos about correlation [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9] at Prof. Diogenes S. BIDO’s YouTube Channel.

Podcasts

1. Correlação não implica em causalidade (Ciência Sem Fio #09).

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