Emre Kıcıman

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researcher at microsoft #research | opinions mine
#causal ml | ai & society | used to do distributed systems
On the Webhttps://kiciman.org/
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Codehttps://github.com/emrekiciman

The Smithsonian has made over 4 MILLION images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc. This is amazing!

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

Smithsonian Open Access

I missed posting this for #cockatoo #tuesday but maybe it's still ok to post on #wednesday.

Here is Lila dancing funky to the viral dance music from netflix's Wednesday. Just for fun.

Just a 10sec clip for now. Full video available on request.

I was today years old when I found out that egg salad (sandwich) tastes amazing with hot mango pickle mixed in.

An AI test from 1971 shows you need to adjust your #ChatGPT expectations.

In 1971, Terry Winograd devised the Winograd Schemas, simple sentence understanding tasks that require the use of knowledge and commonsense reasoning. Humans understand them easily. ChatGPT... not so much.

I missed posting this for #cockatoo #tuesday but maybe it's still ok to post on #wednesday.

Here is Lila dancing funky to the viral dance music from netflix's Wednesday. Just for fun.

Just a 10sec clip for now. Full video available on request.

I’m gonna do a manual quote here to say that this is exactly the type of stuff we predicted, and especially with automation bias with people overtrusting model outputs. Police didn’t even check the height of the person they claimed did this, and neither was the person in Atlanta.

https://dair-community.social/@poppast[email protected]/109634255362720798

Mark Downie (@[email protected])

A black man wrongfully jailed for a week in Louisiana after face recognition error, report says. Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight or the mole on his face. #blackmastodon #facialrecognition https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/facial-recognition-tech-used-to-jail-black-man-for-louisiana-theft-hes-never-been-to-louisiana/

dotnet.social

No need to go into backstory, but over dinner tonight we(*) shared a lot of frog puns to mixed reactions. The jokes were a tad pole-arizing.

(*) mostly me.

OK, here it goes. Why quote-posting is a critical positive feature we need to get on this platform. A 🧵 of uses (I'll start; feel free to add)

Plus, many expensive refutations now run in parallel, making them much faster (Thanks Andreas Stöffelbauer and Amey Verhade!) and as of DoWhy 0.9.1, DoWhy has cleaned up dependencies and supports python 3.10

See more in our release notes: https://github.com/py-why/dowhy/releases

If you want to see your favorite algorithm or feature in the next version of DoWhy, we have a contributor's guide (thanks to Michael Marien!) https://github.com/py-why/dowhy/blob/main/docs/source/contributing/contributing-code.rst

Open for discussions at our Discord and in GitHub issues

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Releases · py-why/dowhy

DoWhy is a Python library for causal inference that supports explicit modeling and testing of causal assumptions. DoWhy is based on a unified language for causal inference, combining causal graphic...

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Jeffrey Gleason adds e-value sensitivity analysis https://pywhy.org/dowhy/v0.9.1/example_notebooks/sensitivity_analysis_testing.html

Anusha0409 adds sensitivity analysis for non-parametric estimators: https://pywhy.org/dowhy/v0.9.1/example_notebooks/sensitivity_analysis_nonparametric_estimators.html

Patrick Bloebaum and Kailash Budhathoki improve the GCM module with a new API for unit change attribution, support for modeling FCMs with auto-gluon, and more!

Egor Kraev adds support for EconML's multi-treatment estimators; and Amit Sharma
adds support for estimating direct effects (previously had been total effect) @causal