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Mindful Modeler

by Christoph Molnar·Last posted 1 months ago

About Christoph Molnar

Mindful Modeler is a love story.

The newsletter combines the best of two worlds: the performance mindset of machine learning and the mindfulness of statistical thinking.

Machine learning has become mainstream while falling short in the silliest ways: lack of interpretability, biased and missing data, wrong conclusions, … To statisticians, these shortcomings are often unsurprising. Statisticians are relentless in their quest to understand how the data came about. They make sure that their models reflect the data-generating process and interpret models accordingly.

In a sea of people who basically know how to model.