I know you’ll be back: interpretable new user clustering and churn prediction on a mobile social application

I know you’ll be back: interpretable new user clustering and churn prediction on a mobile social application http://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/05/i-know-youll-be-back-interpretable-new-user-clustering-and-churn-prediction-on-a-mobile-social-application/ — Read on blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/05/i-know-youll-be-back-interpretable-new-user-clustering-and-churn-prediction-on-a-mobile-social-application/ Interesting paper on mobile user churn prediction at Snapchat

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You should record technical talks!

A few days ago I attended the talk “Sparsity, oracles and inference in high-dimensional statistics” by Sara van der Geer who is visiting Georgia Tech. The talk is described here. But I didn’t record the talk! I had a working iPhone! I only have an after thought photo of the white board that remained after […]

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AI and the War on Poverty

A.I. and Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty is the title of on op-ed in today’s New York Times by Elisabeth Mason. I fear that AI and Big Data is more likely to fuel a new War on the Poor unless a radical rethinking occurs. In fact this algorithmic War on the Poor […]

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AI and the Souls of Black Folk

The impact of AI on communities of color — particularly through job displacement and policing — is now undeniable. Given that HBCUs have historically been on the forefront of technology education for the Black community, I am proposing to build a list of current activities (courses, research, seminars, clubs, etc.) at the HBCUs relevant to […]

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