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Shedding light on AI’s black boxes

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Susannah Shoemaker

A recent special issue in Science highlights the increasingly important role that artificial intelligence (AI) plays in science and society. Providing a small but compelling sample of the types of challenges AI is equipped to tackle—from aiding chemical synthesis efforts … Continue reading →

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False Positive vs. False Negative

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Sarah K. Salmon

A guest post by Long Nguyen: Not all results of medical tests are absolutely correct. Scientists can make mistakes when they conclude that something is true when it is actually false or that something is false when it is actually … Continue reading →

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OKCupid: The Math Behind Online Dating

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Matthew Simonson

Guest Author: Michalina Malysz “Like you use sentences to tell a person a story; you use algorithms to tell a story to a computer” (Rudder 2013). In today’s day and age, we have the world at our fingertips. The internet … Continue reading →

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Math vs. Stats: A Fight to the…Bank?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Samantha Tyner

Hi there!  This is my first time writing a blog post, so I hope you enjoy it!  My name is Samantha Tyner, and I’m a first year grad student in Statistics at Iowa State University.  I graduated from Augustana College … Continue reading →

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