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Achin: Compliance is used to defend outdated, inaccurate regression models
“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.”
Bindu Reddy considers H2O.ai and DataRobot to be non-competitors to Abacus.AI
“So if somebody actually knows our space, but HTO and data robot are really, we, I mean, maybe they consider themselves our competitors. We like to think of them as non-competitors. The reason for that is their real focus, as you probably may know, is on the au…”
Douetteau: DataRobot focuses primarily on AutoML and ML automation
“Company like DataRobot are mostly about automating and especially the ML part of the process and meaning the AutoML part of the process.”
Achin: DataRobot employees held Kaggle's top rank almost continuously for three years
“Basically, over the last three years, somebody from our company has been number, ranked number one almost the entire time.”
Achin: Non-data scientist advisor placed 5th in Kaggle competition using DataRobot
“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.”
Achin penalized job candidates for choosing the wrong modeling textbook
“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…”