Matthew Mayo

Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Ottawa

Data Scientist | AI Engineer | Digital Strategist Managing Editor for Guiding Tech Media's family of professional data-oriented websites

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Articles

7 Statistical Concepts Machine Learning Engineers Misunderstand

1 week ago | f.mtr.cool | Matthew Mayo

Image by Editor | MidjourneyMachine learning engineers live and breathe data, but that doesn’t mean their statistical foundation is always solid. With libraries doing the heavy lifting, it’s easy to plug in an algorithm and forget to ask whether the underlying assumptions even make sense. The danger? Misleading insights, poorly performing models, and bad calls on what’s actually significant.
Feel The Vibe: Why AI-Dependent Coding Isn't The Enemy (or is it?) - KDnuggets

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Matthew Mayo

The battle over dogs on beaches is heating up again in Australia, with locals divided over whether our furry friends belong on the sand or off it. As …
Feel The Vibe: Why AI-Dependent Coding Isn't The Enemy (or is it?) - KDnuggets

1 week ago | kdnuggets.com | Matthew Mayo

Is vibe coding the future? Or a way for non-coder to dabble? Or a tool for programmers to make their lives a little easier? Or none of these things? You've heard of it; it's all the rage. It's vibe coding!Simply prompt a language model, get high-quality, working, professional-grade code in return. We're at another crossroads, folks, and are experiencing yet another game-changer. This time that game-changer is vibe coding. But mild sarcasm aside, is vibe coding all it's cracked up to be?
Feel The Vibe: Why AI-Dependent Coding Isn't The Enemy (or is it?) - KDnuggets

1 week ago | f.mtr.cool | Matthew Mayo

Image by Author (that's not supposed to be me) | ChatGPTIntroduction You've heard of it; it's all the rage. It's vibe coding!Simply prompt a language model, get high-quality, working, professional-grade code in return. We're at another crossroads, folks, and are experiencing yet another game-changer. This time that game-changer is vibe coding. But mild sarcasm aside, is vibe coding all it's cracked up to be?
Implementing Bayesian Inference in Statistical Modeling: A Practical Guide

3 weeks ago | f.mtr.cool | Matthew Mayo

Image by Editor | MidjourneyBayesian inference has become an increasingly practical tool in statistical modeling, especially as data grows more complex and computational power continues to expand. Unlike traditional frequentist methods, Bayesian inference integrates prior knowledge and evidence to update our beliefs, providing a powerful approach to modeling that is both flexible and intuitive.
Concise Guide to Survival Analysis

4 weeks ago | f.mtr.cool | Matthew Mayo

Image by Editor | MidjourneySurvival analysis might sound like something out of a wilderness reality show, but it’s actually a powerful statistical method used to analyze the time until a specific event occurs. That event could be anything from a customer churning, a machine breaking down, or a patient relapsing. The common thread? We’re looking at time-to-event data. So, if you’ve ever asked, “How long until X happens?” and wanted to back that up with solid data, you’re in the right place.
Math, Machine Learning & Coding Needed For LLMs - KDnuggets

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Matthew Mayo

NowScience of Knots Could Help Us Imagine Our Universe's Weird ShapeWhen you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you're living on a flat plane.
Math, Machine Learning & Coding Needed For LLMs

2 months ago | kdnuggets.com | Matthew Mayo

The goal of this article is to guide you through the essential mathematical foundations, machine learning techniques, and coding practices needed to work with LLMs. Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science — to name a few — offering groundbreaking capabilities in natural language processing. However, effectively developing, fine-tuning, or deploying these models requires a multidisciplinary skill set.
Correlation, Causation, and Confounding: Decoding Hidden Relationships in Data

2 months ago | statology.org | Matthew Mayo

Image by Author | Midjourney & CanvaYou can’t go very long without encountering a variety supposed statistical relationships and correlations on news outlets, in academic papers, and across social media. But as anyone statisitcally-oriented will tell you, not every correlation tells a story of cause and effect. Misinterpreting these hidden relationships can lead to misguided decisions and erroneous conclusions.
Applications of SpaCy in Real-World Text Analytics Projects

2 months ago | statology.org | Matthew Mayo

OverviewWe’ve reached the next instalment of our spaCy series. In this article, we will focus on practical use cases, showcasing how spaCy can be applied end-to-end in real-world scenarios. From building a text classification model to extracting insights from customer reviews or social media posts, we’ll walk through an example workflow that leverages spaCy’s tokenization, linguistic features, custom components, and more.