Archive - arg min

Patterns, Predictions, and Actions (revisited)

The syllabus for this semester's graduate course on machine learning.

6 hrs ago •

Just When I Thought I Was Out

They pull me back in! Time to teach machine learning again.

Aug 22 •

Inference From the Best Prediction?

The allure of equating simplicity and linearity.

Aug 20 •

Selecting for complexity

Do machine learning researchers actually care about simple baselines?

Aug 18 •

All our games turn into Calvinball

Why lessons from chess don't apply to machine learning

Aug 13 •

The Negroni Variation

Revisiting Sutton’s Bitter Lesson essay in the light of GPT5

Aug 11 •

Announcing The Irrational Decision

A book about how we gave computers the power to decide for us

Aug 4 •

July 2025

Digging in the crates

A guided tour of the argmin archives

Jul 22 •

The unpredictability conundrum

How do we establish the limits of prediction?

Jul 17 •

Metascience of pull requests

Advocating for open data without bureaucratic statistics.

Jul 15 •

Are developers finally out of a job?

Jul 11 •

An open mindset

The commitments required for fully open source machine learning

Jul 10 •

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