Predictive technology can improve public policy — if we use it right.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” – Frank Herbert, Dune. (more…)

This week Jonathon and Vidya are out of town, so Chris takes the helm and gives his opinionated guide to learning machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Resources mentioned this episode: (more…)

18.337 - Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning... (more…)

Clustering is the process of dividing a set of random data points into a fixed number of clusters. Clusters can be imagined as the set of similar data. Consider the set of random data points given … (more…)