by Ian Deters | Apr 26, 2025 | Talks and Essays
A video series explaining how to create a predictive model which is simultaneously explicable and precise has launched. An introductory video and a video explaining a canonical variable standardization technique have been...
by Ian Deters | Mar 19, 2025 | Talks and Essays
In this episode of Full Metal Analysis, Mean Metal X uses Infinite Series to give a precise definition of the Transcendental Functions and then illustrates the reasoning to demonstrate their intuitive properties. In short, rigor is brought to bear on your Pre – Calc...
by Ian Deters | Dec 18, 2024 | Talks and Essays
This video attempts to make precise the definition of “disparity” as used in popular discourse. Using this definition, the probability of disparity is then estimated using an augmented 2020 United States Census questionnaire as indicative of the structure of an...
by Ian Deters | May 7, 2024 | Talks and Essays
After giving my presentation The Mathematics Of Machine Learning at the 2023 fall meeting of Buckeye Actuarial Continuing Education, I was asked by Demotech CEO Joseph Petrelli to write an essay on AI in the insurance industry for Demotech’s quarterly...
by Ian Deters | Sep 6, 2023 | Talks and Essays
This conversation resulted from being asked by Bob Murphy to comment on episode 229 of his show. Episode 229 began with a discussion about the counter intuitive results of the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem and proceeded to critique aspects of mathematics. After some...
by Ian Deters | Jun 22, 2022 | Talks and Essays
This is a talk given at the 2022 Amazon re:MARS conference. It is a longer version of the talk given at the 2021 All Things Open conference with a similar name. The purpose of this talk is to learn about the mathematics that provide the foundation for machine...
