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2023

» Unpacking what it means to be an interim leader

» What I wish someone had told me

» My top 3 entrepreneurship lessons

» How to lead in tough times

» My favorite go-to growth tactics

» 10 simple steps to build wealth and retire early

» Tech is going to get much bigger

» The one person billion dollar company: A possible future of business

» Why I spent 120k on a biz coach

» The AI research job market shit show (and my experience)

» The magic prioritization trick

» Why nvidia's AI supremacy is only temporary

» Complex battlefields favor strong soldiers over large armies in social animal warfare

» Python project from scratch with poetry, black, ruff, pytest, pre-commit-hooks and GitHub Actions in 15 min tops

» When to dig a moat

» On hiring, rehiring, and one question to answer them all

» More design patterns for machine learning systems

» Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines

» What I think about the Silicon Valley Bank situation

» Protect the house... then build the castle

» The magic loop: A framework for rapid career growth

» 4 equity terms startup executives must understand when negotiating their compensation package

» What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?

» Deep learning tuning playbook

» Small habits co-founders can hang on to as they build the plane while flying it

» Wondering how to motivate imployees is a management fail

» Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time

2022

» Is a lack of role clarity hurting your engineering team?

» Virtual teams in a gig economy

» RT-1: Robotics transformer

» How analysis dies

» Discovering latent knowledge in language models without supervision

» A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery

» Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group

» What does Meta AI's Diplomacy-winning Cicero mean for AI?

» Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero

» Data's day of reckoning

» Traits you can change, and traits you cannot

» What to watch in AI

» What hunter-gatherers can teach us about the frustrations of modern work

» Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

» The strongest predictor of men's well-being isn't family or health

» How to make causal inferences using texts

» Outcome super prompt

» Foundation models: The future isn't happening fast enough -- Better tooling will make it happen faster

» How to become an expert

» Socially situated artificial intelligence enables learning from human interaction

» Build your career on dirty work

» If data is a product, what is production?

» Trial or freemium? Get the best of both with a reverse trial

» Joyful complex work

» How GPT-3 helps me write short stories

» How to measure cohort retention

» Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas

» PEER: A collaborative language model

» Engineering levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the scope trap

» Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative

» Atlas: Few-shot learning with retrieval augmented language models

» Preventing soft skill decay among early-career women in STEM during COVID-19: Evidence from a longitudinal intervention

» TextWorldExpress: Simulating Text Games at One Million Steps Per Second

» Every little bit helps: The ga

» Impression management attenuates the effect of ability on trust in economic exchange

» Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India

» Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues

» Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

» Wolf attacks predict far-right voting

» A recipe for success? Sustaining creativity among first-time creative producers

» Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI

» Why you should write weekly 15-5s

» How to build ML-first products

» The really important job interview questions enginers should ask (but don't)

» Clean architecture: How to structure your ML projects to reduce technical debt

» Flat teams drive scientific innovation

» How should analysts spend their time

» Pruning recurrent neural networks replicates adolescent changes in working memory and reinforcement learning

» Ready to learn: Incidental exposure fosters category learning

» The Batch: Special issue! Foundational algorithms, where they came from, where they're going

» What I wish I knew about onboarding effectively

» The top 5 scale-up mistakes

» Chronic frames of social inequality: How mainstream media frame race, gender, and wealth inequality

» Lessons from deploying deep learning to production

» Introduction to machine learning interviews book

» Bandits for recommender systems

» A tactical guide to working with EAs: How to make delegation your superpower

» The AI Economist: Taxation policy design via two-level deep multiagent reinforcement learning

» An interview with Claire Highes Johnson

» An interview with Claire Highes Johnson

» Hiring data scientists with intention

» Virtual communication curbs creative idea generation

» Automated evaluation of psychotherapy skills using speech and language technologies

» Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety messages

» On the value of modesty: How signals of status undermine cooperation

» Deep models of superficial face judgments

» How to measure and mitigate position bias

» Normalizing the use of single-item measures: Validation of the single-item compendium for organizational psychology

» Data team structure: embedded or centralised?

» Best vs. Rest explained

» The end of Big Data

» Everything gets a package? Yes, everything gets a package

» The nature of product

» You are probably doing MLOps at a reasonable scale. Embrace it.

» A scalable empathic-mindset intervention reduces group disparities in school suspensions

» 23 tactical company building lessons, leanred from scaling Stripe & Notion

» Building games and apps entirely through natural language using OpenAI’s code-davinci model

» How to develop product sense

» Are conferences worth the time and money?

» Organizing and scaling an effective data team

» How to use the two-week rule to become remarkably successful

» A guide to data roles

» Solidarity in the small stuff

» Technical reasoning bolsters cumulative technological culture through convergent transformations

» Knowledge about others reduces one’s own sense of anonymity

» Buliding for the 99% developers

» The transmission game: Testing behavioral interventions in a pandemic-like simulation

» Sequential consumer choice as multi-cued retrieval

» Behavioral consistency in the digital age

» Red flags to look out for when joining a data team

» Everything I've learned about recruiting and interviewing

» How to be a 10x software engineer

» Algorithms tour: How data science is woven into the fabric of Stitch Fix

» Political coherence and certainty as drivers of interpersonal liking over and above similarity

» The company-building conrnerstones every founder needs to focus on - Advice from HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah

» A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies

» Everything gets a package: My python data science setup

» The durability formula - How it will determine your startup's future value

» Preferences predict who commits crime among young men

» Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor

» Don't forget Microsoft

» You probably shouldn’t work at a startup

» 10년 경력을 설계하는 방법

» 5 questions every manager needs to ask their direct reports

» Fast response times signal social connection in conversation

» What is causal inference? An intro for data scientists

» My personal history with NLP or side-effects of good API design

» How gamification of everything is manipulating you (and how to recognize it)

» Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents

» MineRL: Towards AI in Minecraft

» Why do some people succeed when others fail? Outliers provide clues

» School closures led to more sleep and better quality of life for adolescents

2021

» The power of rank information

» Making difficulty curves in games

» Leveraging metacognitive ability to improve crowd accuracy via impossible questions.

» Visualizing the $94 trillion world economy in one chart

» Redesigning Etsy's machine learning platform

» Why ex post peer review encourages high-risk research while ex ante review discourages it

» Antibody response and variant cross-neutralization after SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection

» Using AI to bring children’s drawings to life

» Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes

» Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment

» Build habits, not streaks

» A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19

» Conference demographics and footprint changed by virtual platforms

» Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot

» Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science

» The ongoing consolidation in AI is incredible

» The therapists using AI to make therapy better

» Gender stereotypes about interests start early and cause gender disparities in computer science and engineering

» What candidates can and cannot control in their job hunt

» Papers about visual number sense in deep neural nets

» Some interesting math apps

» Scaling data: Data informed to data driven to data led

» [Book] Probabilistic machine learning: An introduction

» Finding language/market fit: How to make customers feel like you've read their minds

» GitLab handbook career development

» The (minimal) persuasive advantage of political video over text

» The missing analytics executive

» For better coffee, start with fewer beans

» Shuffling homework problems helps college students learn introductory physics

» Text-to-drawing synthesis with artistic control | CLIPDraw & StyleCLIPDraw

» How to have radically candid career conversations to retain your team

» Predicting job performance using mobile sensing

» Six rules of hiring for growth

» A method for measuring analytical work

» The End of Navel Gazing: Paul Adams, UX London 2018

» Adaptive staircase research papers

» Gorilla, gamified research series

» Automated machine learning on the M5 forecasting competition

» User retention and churn engineering github repos

» Extension request avoidance predicts greater time stress among women

» How the modern data stack is reshaping data engineering

» Transformer from scratch

» Interleaving: A Classroom Experiment

» Unpopular opinion - Data scientists should be more end-to-end

» The sobering truth about the impact of your business ideas

» The sobering truth about the impact of your business ideas

» People are more tolerant of inequality when it is expressed in terms of individuals rather than groups at the top

» People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own

» Development of children’s math attitudes: Gender differences, key socializers, and intervention approaches

» Research: Cameras On or Off?

» Probability models for customer-base analysis

» No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details

» [Book] The science of science

» Opt-out choice framing attenuates gender differences in the decision to compete in the laboratory and in the field

» Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science

» What Type of Job is This: My First Year as Chief Product Officer

» BI is dead

» Taughtology: The incorrect science of teaching wrongly

» Shifting parental beliefs about child development to foster parental investments and improve school readiness outcomes

» Active learning: Hands-on meets minds-on

» Room to read: The effect of extra-large letter spacing and coloured overlays on reading speed and accuracy in adolescents with dyslexia

» Keep it simple: streamlining book illustrations improves attention and comprehension in beginning readers

» Testing the efficacy of three informational interventions for reducing misperceptions of the Black–White wealth gap

» The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

» 20 underrated qualities to look for in candidates - and 50+ interview questions to suss them out

» The relation between home numeracy practices and a variety of math skills in elementary school children

» Catering to learning styles isn't just ineffective: It can harm learning

» Artificial Intelligence in Education (from Prodigy)

» Secure human attachment can promote support for climate change mitigation

» Individualistic culture increases economic mobility in the United States

» Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultural, and scientific careers

» Why we use experiment quality as the main KPI for our experimentation platform

» The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers

» Task complexity moderates group synergy

» Investor memory of past performance is positively biased and predicts overconfidence

» Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity

» Large-scale randomized experiments reveals that machine learning-based instruction helps people memorize more effectively

» Posthog handbook compensation

» A Theoretical Assessment Ecosystem for a Digital-First Assessment—The Duolingo English Test

» PostHog strategy overview

» What is product management analytics?

» What is LUV? How Mixpanel used Mixpanel to define the behaviors that drive customer love

» Shreyas Doshi on choosing, refining, and tracking product metrics

» Measure value: The foundations of product analytics

» 6 steps for leading successful data science teams

» Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception

» Unsupervised Online Assessment of Visual Working Memory in 4- to 10-Year-Old Children: Array Size Influences Capacity Estimates and Task Performance

» Recipes for safety in open-domain chatbots

» The relationship between valence and chills in music: A corpus analysis

» The salience of choice fuels independence: Implications for self-perception, cognition, and behavior

» COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning

» Exploring the implementation of early math assessments in kindergarten classrooms: A research-practice collaboration

» The Tenets of A/B Testing from Duolingo’s Master Growth Hacker

» How Etsy Evolved Product Prioritization Through Growth

» Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story

» Stable individual differences in infants’ responses to violations of intuitive physics

» Predicting trends in the quality of state-of-the-art neural networks without access to training or testing data

» Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis

» The effects of handwriting experience on literacy learning

» Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis

» Decision-making ability, psychopathology, and brain connectivity

» Andrew Ng Launches A Campaign For Data-Centric AI

» The impact of a lack of mathematical education on brain development and future attainment

» Editorial: Children's competencies development in the home learning environment

» Using large-scale experiments and machine learning to discover theories of human decision-making

» Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data

» My stack for research ML projects

» Reactivation-induced motor skill learning

» Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility

» Storytelling increases oxytocin and positive emotions and decreases cortisol and pain in hospitalized children

» Built to last: An ex-product leader at LinkedIn, Twitter on the only stickiness metric that matters

» Quantifying collective intelligence in human groups

» You only need these 3 data roles in a data-driven enterprise

» How we’re improving learning with anonymized speech data

» Training spatial cognition enhances mathematical learning in a randomized study of 17,000 children

» Alcohol narrows physical distance between strangers

» Wise teamwork: Collective confidence calibration predicts the effectiveness of group discussion

» The Great Online Game

» Evidence-based principles for how to design effective instructional videos

» Evidence-based principles for how to design effective instructional vidoes

» Virtual kindergarten readiness programming for preschool-aged children: Feasibility, social validty, and preliminary impacts

» Virtual kindergarten readiness programming for preschool-aged children: Feasibility, social validity, and preliminary impacts

» The missing piece of the modern data stack

» Predicting social tipping and norm change in controlled experiments

» Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments

» Casey’s Guide to Finding Product/Market Fit

» The 80/20 rule in data (and why it doesn't have to be that way)

» An experimental test of fundraising appeals targeting donor and recipient benefits

» Mass-scale emotionality reveals human behaviour and marketplace success

» People systematically overlook subtractive changes

» Brain activity foreshadows stock price dynamics

» Task-specific information outperforms surveillance-style big data in predictive analytics

» Ideology selectively shapes attention to inequality

» Targeted school-based interventions for improving reading and mathematics for students with or at risk of academic difficulties in Grades K-6: A systematic review

» Optimal policy for attention-modulated decisions explains human fixation behavior

» Six weeks of basketball combined with mathematics in physical education classes can improve children's motivation for mathematics

» Testosterone reduces generosity through cortical and subcortical mechanisms

» The key to successful diversity and inclusion? Belongingness

» Passion matters but not equally everywhere: Predicting achievement from interest, enjoyment, and efficacy in 59 societies

» Do conversations end when people want them to?

» Stunted upward mobility in a learning environment reduces the academic benefits of growth mindsets

» [Book] Designing digital products for kids

» Tools & techniques for brining machine learning research to production

» People accurately predict the transition probabilities between actions

» Depressed mood, a better predictor of social-distancing compliance and candidate for intervention compared to working memory capacity

» How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework

» Follow my lead: Assertive cheap talk and the gender gap

» Video improves learning in higher education: a systematic review

» Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

» Slow lies: Response delays promote perceptions of insincerity

» Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts

» The fateful first consumer review

» Timing matters when correcting fake news

» Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education

» Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year

» The hidden world of pricing: uber, trulia, etsy, superhuman, and more

» Empathy is the mother of invention: Emotion and cognition for creativity in the classroom

» A longer shortlist increases the consideration of female candidates in male-dominant domains

» Hegemonic masculinity predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations

2020

» Transforming task representations to perform novel tasks

» 개발자 비급 - 5. 스타트업의 개발자 채용비법

» It takes a Flywheel to fly: Kickstarting and keeping the A/B testing momentum

» The best of Lenny's newsletter

» A/B testing at LinkedIn: Assigning variants at scale

» PsychRNN: An accessible and flexible python package for training recurrent neural network models on cognitive tasks

» DSP performance comparison Numpy vs. Cython vs Numba vs Pythran vs Julia

» Momentary subjective well-being depends on learning and not reward

» Measuring cognitive variables: simple answers for thorny questions

» Longitudinally adaptive assessment and instruction increase numerical skills of preschool children

» Riiid answer correctness prediction

» UK ambulance services are testing a rescue jet suit

» The Pair Test: A computerised measure of learning and memory

» Inferring latent learning factors in large-scale cognitive training data

» Response to a specific and digitally supported training at home for students with mathematical difficulties

» Software engineering as a research practice

» Examining the factor structure of the home mathematics environment to delineate its role in predicting preschool numeracy, mathematical language, and spatial skills

» 5 data science questions a hiring manager must ask

» 268 billion events with snowplow analytics and snowflake at CarGurus

» What do you consider GOOD and GREAT retention?

» How to set compensation using commonsense principles

» Augmented creativity: Leveraging artificial intelligence for idea generation in the creative sphere

» Scaling up psychology via Scientific Regret Minimization

» Prediction, estimation, and attribution

» How to use Jupyter Notebooks in 2020

» Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages

» Variational item response theory: Fast, accurate, expressive

» How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

» Apps as learning tools: A systematic review

2019

» Picking your professional path

» Global development of AI-based education

» The predictive utility of word familiarity for online engagements and funding

» The eighty five percent rule for optimal learning

» Does Measure Up! measure up? Evaluation of an iPad app to teach preschoolers measurement concepts

» How (not) to scale deep learning in 6 easy steps

» Struggling with your academic writing? Try these experiments to get the words flowing

» The Reading House: A children's book for emergent literacy screening during well-child visits

» Uncovering the structure of self-regulation through data-driven ontology discovery

» A recipe for training neural networks

» Large-scale analysis of test–retest reliabilities of self-regulation measures

» Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology

» The i3+3 design for phase I clinical trials

2018

» Inequality in reading and math skills forms mainly before kindergarten: A replication, and partial correction of 'Are schools the great equalizer?'

» [Book] Statistical Rethinking

» Three pillars of data science

» Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

» How to identify talent: Five lessons from the NFL draft

2017

» Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion

» Modeling techniques for adaptive practice systems

» Bayesian knowledge tracing, logistic models, and beyond: an overview of learner modeling techniques

» The startup founder's guide to analytics

» Research debt

2016

» Elo-based learner modeling for the adaptive practice of facts

» The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions

» Why organizations fail

» Applications of the Elo rating system in adaptive educational systems

2015

» The Babe Ruth Effect in venture capital

» The myopia boom

» Career development: What it really means to be a manager, director, or VP

» Come for the tool, stay for the network

2013

» The never ending road to product market fit

» What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

2012

» Valve Handbook for new employees

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