The Wall Street Journal ran an intriguing story last month about Netflix’s management overriding recommendations coming from the company’s algorithms. Analysis showed that promotions for the comedy “Grace and Frankie” were more successful when they only featured one of the two stars of the show. Apparently fearful of alienating one of their stars, Netflix’s management […]
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
The absurdity of hypothesis testing
Data versus decisions
Skin in the game
I tend to listen more to opinions when people have placed money on their espoused outcome—having “skin in the game”, as Nicholas Taleb calls it in his latest book. However, this robotics developer seems to have gone one better. He literally has skin in the game. Good scientists aren’t supposed to experiment on themselves, but […]