by Phanish Puranam I have no doubt that the hardest part, by far, of the Ph.D. student’s journey is finding a thesis topic, and then a cast of characters who are enthusiastic enough about the topic to serve as a thesis committee. How do you select a suitable dissertation topic?…Read More
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Response to “From Quasi-Replication to Generalization”
by Phanish Puranam Lori and Dan's post "From Quasi-Replication to Generalization: Making 'Basis Variables' Visible" gives us a nice way to think about generalization in terms of “basis variables”. I’d like to extend their thought with a complementary way of thinking about generalization using machine learning (ML) techniques. Generalization can…Read More