@petercbruce

Founder and President of The Institute for Statistics Education at https://xitter.cf/t.co/hODA5aTzi3

 Arlington, VA
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Check out my latest article: Ethical AI: Darth Vader and the Cowardly Lion linkedin.com/pulse/ethical-a… via @LinkedIn

Ethical AI: Darth Vader and the Cowardly Lion

Can we trust anything we see? Or hear? Last week saw the news that James Earl Jones was retiring from his role voicing Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, and farming it out to AI. Brief musings...

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Great insight on the role of luck and circumstance in Jason Zweig's column on GE "Management matters a lot, but it doesn’t matter as much as you think (especially if you are management)". wsj.com/articles/ge-what-wen… See also statistics.com/good-to-great… via @WSJ #BusinessStrategy

GE and the Belief in Management Magic

The breakup of an American colossus reveals an essential corporate truth: No strategy can erase decades of bad decisions—or counteract irreversible changes in how business is done.

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Natural selection at work: 1427 passengers travel on cruise ship leaving Florida March 5 for Italy
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Maybe, by "investigation" of Biden, Rudy really wanted a frameup, in line with Ukraine's Soviet-strongman traditions. Beria, Stalin's secret police chief, put it well- "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." #ImpeachmentHearing #impeachment #RudyGiuliani
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“Can I get the IPA on draft?” “No - can only.” “Ok I’ll take it. Can I get a cup, then?” “No. You have to buy a draft to get a cup.”
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#nats
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“Can I get the IPA on draft?” “No - can only.” “Ok I’ll take it. Can I get a cup, then?” “No. You have to buy a draft to get a cup.”
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Fascinating 2 minute overview of how Amazon integrates machine learning and OR optimization in fulfillment. youtube.com/watch?list=PLZXz… #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence @statisticscom
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Central Park in NYC @jetblue #wingcrushwednesday
The World Might Actually Run Out of People wired.com/story/the-world-mi… countries will be competing for immigrants
Those who remained to the very end were invited on stage for the #DCDATACON end of conference photo - thanks to EVERYONE who participated making the 2018 conference a success. #Thankful #DataDC
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“Henceforth the country’s honor is ours to sustain” - Kissinger message to the political establishment at McCain services Saturday townandcountrymag.com/societ…

Read the Full Transcript of Henry Kissinger's Eulogy for John McCain

"In the McCain family, national service was its own reward."

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Jason Gay: Baseball is too long. It’s too slow. A pair of academics offer a dramatic rule to increase competitiveness and speed up the game. wsj.com/articles/a-radical-p… via @WSJ

A Radical Pitch to Save Baseball

A pair of academics offer a dramatic rule to increase competitiveness—and cut almost a half-hour from a nine-inning game.

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Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet. Historical and taxonomic disentangling of the components of AI medium.com/@mijordan3/artifi…
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“Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet” by Michael Jordan medium.com/@mijordan3/artifi…
After Cambridge Analytica, we're “shocked” our data is traded on a massive scale online. But the real issue is mass manipulation of social and political behavior by bad actors. See statistical methods to ID them: bit.ly/2H9bvDM #CambridgeAnalytics @statisticscom
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Which superpower do you want? Females (red) want telepathy- males, not so much. At the American Statistical Association booth at US Sci & Engineering Festival DC #SciFest @statisticscom #Statistics
Biogen value drops $4 billion after sample size adjustment for an Alzheimer's drug: on.wsj.com/2sM5GFy It's part of the study's adaptive design, they say - learn more about adaptive designs, starting March 9- statistics.com/clinical-tria… @statisticscom

Biogen CEO Calls Share Slump an Overreaction to Alzheimer’s Trial

Biogen’s chief executive said investors overreacted when they pushed down the company’s share price nearly 7% on news that it was adding patients to trials of an Alzheimer’s disease drug.

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I’m Jeff Bezos, and I’m Your Dad Now newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
(2/2 continuing) Tarasco, as an outfielder with the Orioles, was the victim of the notorious Derek Jeter home run in the 1996 AL Championship - the ball was helped into the stands by 12-year-old Yankees fan Jeffrey Maier atmlb.com/2mCsaTg
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