Statistics
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11 statements about Statistics, every show
Sanchez: Stanford Finds Stories Are Remembered 22% More Than Statistics
“The Stanford researcher found that people remember stories, 22% more than statistics alone.”
Dwivedi: LLMs handle semantics while statistics must handle time series
“The agent is not good at looking at time series data, so that's, that is what statistics needs to take care of. But statistics doesn't understand what is the relationship between latency and memory usage and disk utilization. So that is the LLM part.”
Housel: Stories serve as emotional leverage for statistics
“So because it's just so much easier to remember a story than a statistic, and it's easier to contextualize it within your own life, and because there's so much emotion embedded in it, stories are like leverage for good statistics.”
Wiggins: 'Statistics' entered English to mean statecraft, not math or data
“Statistics entered the English language to mean statecraft. It had nothing to do with math, and it certainly had nothing to do with data.”
Partovi: Only 5% of people use calculus in daily life, compared to statistics
“Everybody uses statistics in their daily lives and maybe five percent of people use calculus in their daily lives.”
Balaji: CS and statistics are the 21st-century equivalent of physics
“Computer science and stats is to this century, because physics was awesome for, you know, understanding the natural world... Now, today, because so much of the world is a constructed virtual world... CS and stats becomes, I mean, it was valuable before, but it…”
Tawakol: AI development teams require statistics experts, not just software engineers
“So these kinds of judgment errors are just very commonplace, and that's why you obviously need people on the team who aren't just You know, ah, really good at writing the code, and you also knew people very familiar with statistics.”
Marcus: AI is stuck due to over-reliance on statistics and big data
“And I have a three-part diagnosis, which is that it's fallen in love with statistics, it's fallen in love with big data, and it's forgotten its roots.”
John Rauser says many software engineers fake their understanding of statistics
“What I want to claim today is that many of you are faking it when it comes to statistics.”
John Rauser: Classical analytical statistics relies on assumptions that are rarely true
“The analytical approach is not better. This is an approximation to a distribution under a model with a whole bunch of assumptions which are rarely true and are almost always ignored anyway.”
John Rauser says programming gives developers superpowers for learning statistics
“If you can program a computer You have superpowers when it comes to learning statistics, because being able to program allows you to tinker with the most fundamental ideas in statistics, the way you might have tinkered with electronics when you were a kid, or …”