Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure. The Soviet nail factory is the classic story, but the version that matters for geoscientists building or using ML models is the one in our prospectivity pipelines. Optimising hard against...
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Look at 37% of your candidates. Reject all of them. Then pick the next one that beats everyone you've seen so far. This rule gives you at least...
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An Israeli Air Force instructor told Daniel Kahneman that praise made pilots fly worse and criticism made them fly better. He wasn't lying. He was watching regression to...
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In 1973 the University of California at Berkeley appeared to be discriminating against women. The aggregate admissions rate was 44 percent for men and 35 percent for women,...
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Junior explorers often live and die by the press release. So when one of these companies announces a drill result or a financing, does the stock actually move,...
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