that annoys me is the countless people online, in person, and even in my comments section saying “how AI will replace data scientists.”
I find this frustrating since it often comes from individuals who...
forecasting roughly $50 billion in promoting revenue using econometrics, time-series models, and causal inference. When a senior VP asked how confident we ought to be in a number, I couldn’t hand them a...
Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, pushes that analogy himself. “I believe 2026 might be for AI and science what 2025 was for AI in software engineering,” he said at a press...
is having an identity crisis.
Indications of this crisis have been around for years. As an example, the inaugural issue of found it easier to define what data science is just not reasonably than...
“That’s actually a desirable place to be,” says Weil. “When you say enough mistaken things after which any person stumbles on a grain of truth after which the opposite person seizes on it and...
is an annual advent calendar of programming puzzles which might be themed around helping Santa’s elves prepare for Christmas. The whimsical setting masks the proven fact that many puzzles call for serious algorithmic...