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The Counter-Intuitive Nature of Probabilistic Relationships

If y can be estimated as a linear function of x does not imply that x can also be estimated as a linear function of y

Jul 21, 2023

The Counter-Intuitive Nature of Probabilistic Relationships

Jul 21, 2023

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Towards Data Science

What can we learn from posterior distributions?

A frequentist interpretation of Bayesian posterior

Oct 10, 2022

What can we learn from posterior distributions?

Oct 10, 2022

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What does the h-index tell us that we could not know without it?

A theoretical and empirical investigation of the additional information the h-index contains and cannot be found in the total number of…

Mar 20, 2021

What does the h-index tell us that we could not know without it?

Mar 20, 2021

Alireza Modirshanechi
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The Startup

What If Everything Was About Reward Prediction Error?

A note on how our lives would look like if we could perceive joy only by our errors in predicting rewards.

Dec 29, 2020

What If Everything Was About Reward Prediction Error?

Dec 29, 2020

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Towards Data Science

Why does the optimal policy exist?

A proof of the existence of the optimal policy for finite MDPs

Jul 18, 2020

Why does the optimal policy exist?

Jul 18, 2020

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Towards Data Science

Lady tasting tea: A Bayesian approach

An introduction to and a comparison between Bayesian and frequentist methods for hypothesis testing

Jun 3, 2020

Lady tasting tea: A Bayesian approach

Jun 3, 2020

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The Startup

Is correlation distance a metric?

In the absence of a distance, “close” and “far” are meaningless. To define these notions over a set of abstract mathematical objects, we…

May 10, 2020

Is correlation distance a metric?

May 10, 2020

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A misinterpretation of correlations

“X2 and X3 both increase by an increase in X1”; if there is a deterministic relation between these variables, then such a statement…

May 2, 2020

A misinterpretation of correlations

May 2, 2020

Alireza Modirshanechi

Alireza Modirshanechi

Postdoc at Helmholtz Munich and MPI for Biological Cybernetics; Ph.D. in CS from EPFL; Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/modirsha

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