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Making Sense of Data: From Statistics to AI

In today's data-driven world, the terms statistics, data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are often used interchangeably, yet each field...

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Oct 12, 2024 3 min read

From Mendel’s Peas to ChatGPT: A History of Machine Learning

The journey of machine learning is a captivating tale that spans centuries, from the humble pea plants in a 19th-century monastery...

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Oct 9, 2024 6 min read

What is Machine Learning? A Beginner’s Guide

Your phone’s camera doesn’t just take pictures anymore. It decides when to use night mode, adjusts focus automatically, and can even...

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Oct 3, 2024 2 min read

Welcome to Machine Learning Advocate

ChatGPT answering your questions, your iPhone sorting photos by face, Netflix deciding what to show you next. All of it is...

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Sep 28, 2024 43 sec read

Foundations

Machine Learning Foundations Part 4: Understanding Hardware

When your phone slows down because too many apps are open, it lags, gets warm, and everything takes twice as long...

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Dec 29, 2024 2 min read

Machine Learning Foundations Part 3: Understanding Algorithms

This is Part 3 of our Foundations series. In Part 1, we covered data. In Part 2, models. Now we’re looking...

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Dec 17, 2024 2 min read

Machine Learning Foundations Part 2: Understanding Models

This is Part 2 of our Foundations series. In Part 1, we covered data. Now we’re looking at models: what they...

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Dec 8, 2024 2 min read

Machine Learning Foundations Part 1: Understanding Data

Data: The Foundation of Machine Learning This is the first post in a 4-part series that takes you behind the scenes...

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Nov 22, 2024 10 min read

Mental Models

Bias vs. Variance: Why Your ML Model Can’t Have It All

For years, every time I fixed one problem with my models, I created another one. Make the model more sophisticated to...

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Apr 24, 2025 3 min read

Training vs. Testing: Why Your Model Needs to Prove Itself on New Data

Does this sound familiar? You’re tutoring a student for an upcoming math test. You help them solve dozens of practice problems...

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Mar 30, 2025 5 min read

Prediction vs Inference: Different Goals in ML Analysis

Some machine learning applications can make accurate recommendations but can’t explain the reasoning. Others provide clear explanations but aren’t quite as...

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Mar 22, 2025 2 min read

Classification vs Regression: Predicting What vs. How Much

In our previous post, we explored supervised vs. unsupervised learning. Now we’re diving into another fundamental choice you’ll face in every...

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Feb 28, 2025 5 min read

Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning: The Two Main Ways Machines “Learn”

Remember learning to ride a bike? Some of us had a parent running alongside, holding the seat and shouting guidance: “Pedal...

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Feb 15, 2025 5 min read

Mathematics and Statistics

Machine Learning Math: Start Simple, Learn as You Go

Last year a data analyst I work with told me she’d closed a machine learning tutorial after the first page. Too...

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Jan 21, 2025 1 min read

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