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Stuck in the middle
Unavoidable tradeoffs in detection theory
Sep 11
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Ben Recht
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How Snake Oil Becomes Normal Technology
A Brief History of American Capitalism
Sep 10
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Ben Recht
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Justify your answer
Three different views of optimal decisions
Sep 9
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Ben Recht
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The Actuary's Final Word
Resolving the legacy of Paul Meehl's troubling little book.
Sep 8
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Ben Recht
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Your noise is my signal
Actuarial prediction from samples without features
Sep 4
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Ben Recht
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Learning from clairvoyance
The best case for future evaluation fixes our methods in the present.
Sep 2
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Ben Recht
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August 2025
The Banal Evil of AI Safety
Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?
Aug 28
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Ben Recht
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Patterns, Predictions, and Actions (revisited)
The syllabus for this semester's graduate course on machine learning.
Aug 26
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Ben Recht
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Just When I Thought I Was Out
They pull me back in! Time to teach machine learning again.
Aug 22
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Ben Recht
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Inference From the Best Prediction?
The allure of equating simplicity and linearity.
Aug 20
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Ben Recht
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Selecting for complexity
Do machine learning researchers actually care about simple baselines?
Aug 18
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Ben Recht
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All our games turn into Calvinball
Why lessons from chess don't apply to machine learning
Aug 13
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Ben Recht
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