For yesterday’s battle (Jim Thorpe vs. John Oliver), I’ll have to go with Thorpe. We got a couple arguments in Oliver’s favor—we’d get to hear him say “Whot?”, and he’s English—but for Thorpe we heard a lot more, including his uniqueness as greatest athlete of all time, and that we could save money on the helmet if that were required. We also got the following bad reason: “the chance to hear him say, ‘I’ve been asked to advise those of you who are following this talk on social media, whatever that means, to use “octothorpe talktothorpe.”‘” Even that bad reason ain’t so bad, also it’s got 3 levels of quotation nesting, which counts for something right there. What iced it for Thorpe was this comment from Tom: “Seeing as he could do everything better than everyone else, just by giving it a go, he would surely give an incredible seminar.”

ByGhazaleh Beigi andHuan Liu, Arizona State University

Now that every company out there is doing artificial intelligence (AI) - or at least claims to be - it’s becoming more and more clear that it’s *way *too easy to fall into a few simple traps that can discredit any well-intentioned efforts. With trust becoming a big topic in the field of AI for 2019, it’s time to be prudent about approaching machine learning-powered initiatives smartly.

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While working on a variation of the RcppDynProg algorithm we derived the following beautiful identity of 2 by 2 real matrices:

Well, I recently decided to do a quick overview of some of the funds I am invested in as part of a retirement annuity. Its been almost 4 years since I started the RA and thought I would just view the fund’s performance, its asset composition and the fees that have been charged over the period.

Last year we took our annual data science survey to the next level by turning over the results to YOU through an open-ended Kernel competition.