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Our Last Hope Before The AI Bubble Detonates: Taming LLMs
  Originally published in Forbes To know that we’re in...
The Agentic AI Hype Cycle Is Out Of Control — Yet Widely Normalized
  Originally published in Forbes I recently wrote about how...
Predictive AI Must Be Valuated – But Rarely Is. Here’s How To Do It
  Originally published in Forbes To be a business is...
Agentic AI Is The New Vaporware
  Originally published in Forbes The hype term “agentic AI”...

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Measuring Invisible Treatment Effects with Uplift Analysis

  Models make predictions by identifying consistent correlations in what has been observed, but we usually require more than predictions to know what action we should take. For example, knowing that older people are more likely to have heart disease is a good first step, but knowing behaviors or treatments that will reduce the risk

Election Analytics Falacies: “Moneyball” Doesn’t Always Win

 Originally published in CivicHall.org For the past week or so, an article titled “The Data That Turned the World Upside Down” has been following me around like a bad headcold. The article tells a compelling “whodunit” story...

Numbers Game: Will Predictive Analytics Decide September’s Federal Election?

 A week after November’s United States presidential election and Nate Silver was everywhere. Already an established member of the American political commentariat via his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Silver’s name went into the stratosphere after he correctly predicted the...