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“A word people use as a last resort to defend the status quo after they realize that their hundred variable regression model is an arbitrary representation of reality that is less accurate, robust, and interpretable than the modern, ah, alternatives.”

“And, ah, the shortage of data scientists will be solved by a combination of pragmatic education, practical education, and, ah, tools that automate the modeling process and automate data science to levels which are, right now, probably most of us in the room th…”

“I would argue, though, that even very complicated models can be interpreted using modern techniques.”

“It's a phrase people use when they're scared of technology they don't understand and want to keep doing the same thing they've been doing for the last 20 years.”

“Basically, over the last three years, somebody from our company has been number, ranked number one almost the entire time.”

“I love this book so much that I would use it in interviews, so I, when somebody would come in for an interview, I would ask them, if you had to go on a desert island And do modeling consulting for the rest of your life, and you can bring one book, what would i…”

“One of our advisors, who's not a data scientist, knows nothing about insurance he came in fifth place. And this is out of six hundred-something people including thirty-something Liberty Mutual employees that have competed.”

“Gradient boosted trees tends to be you know, the, one of the top algorithms, like 40 plus percent of the time.”

“But there's still armies of people mostly in big companies you know, building regression models manually, taking months to do that.”