While Model Trains

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How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter

Rohit Supekar

How Dynamic Meter, the New York Times ML model that sets personalized meter limits and makes the paywall smarter, works.

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Why do we minimize the mean squared error?

Alex Molas

A refresher on the theory behind Mean Squared Error.

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Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation

Gwern

"Despite this admonition, people are overconfident in claiming correlations to support favored causal interpretations and are surprised by the results of randomized experiments, suggesting that they are biased & systematically underestimate the prevalence of confounds / common-causation."

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