Tutorials12 min read
Forecasting inventory without a data team
The simplest useful forecast takes four lines of code, and it is the bar every clever model has to clear.
Writing
Tutorials, explanations, and opinions, mostly aimed at people who want to understand this field without a mathematics degree.
Technical writing8 min read
What embeddings are, for people who run businesses
Text goes in, a list of numbers comes out, and similar meanings produce similar numbers. That is the whole idea.
Tutorials6 min read
Reading a confusion matrix without the jargon
Every classifier gets graded on four numbers, and the two kinds of wrong cost you very different amounts.
Editorials7 min read
Most businesses do not need a model yet
The unglamorous truth is that clean data and a spreadsheet solve more problems than machine learning does.