🔥Kareem Carr 🔥
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Data science makes math concepts easier to understand. I’m going to teach you the fundamental theorem of calculus and it’s going to sound so simple that you could explain it to ki...
DATA SCIENCE CAREER ADVICE: Read this if you're interested in a data science career but feel like you might not belong.
Machine learning and statistics are extremely different activities. A lot of people still don't get this so let me explain with a simple metaphor. If data analysis was a package...
Life is often a lot riskier than we would like. Statistics, the science of uncertainty, can help with that. It empowers us to fine-tune the risk-reward structure of a given situa...
I've noticed a certain rhetorical trick that's common in tech spaces that I call "borrowing evidence from the future". It's where you call someone out for not having any evidence...
Hey new followers! It's been a while since I introduced myself. I grew up in the Caribbean on the island of St. Kitts. That's it right there👇 https://t.co/PVxFZmVoZ1
I'm still trying to process the impact of ChatGPT on my coding. At this point it seems 100% superior to googling for R code and trying to follow tutorials on random blogs (but prob...
i think AI might actually save homework not kill it. in the school system that i was raised in, homework didn’t matter for grades. there were a few high stakes tests at the end of...
The argument I made yesterday about AI sentience only superficially resembles Searle’s Chinese Room argument. So I wanted to repeat the argument in a slightly more cleaned up form...
Hot Take: People seem to think models like GPT and DALL-E imply deep learning models are special but I don't think this makes sense given what people claim about deep learning. He...
A basic misunderstanding about the difference between medicine and public health is hurting our ability to talk about covid and making us all less safe. https://t.co/6mA8trKb6r
As a Biostatistics PhD candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health, I gotta say this: ⚠️ Public health is inherently political ⚠️ https://t.co/JNDSGAUkGC