Causality in a complex world may often be beyond our mental capacity but machine learning can explore probabilistic latent variable models!
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Replying to @AdamHertz
but this model offers new insights into the why, right? Or is all exploration of deep Why now just new layers of What?
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Replying to @marshallk
I’m no expert, but it seems these are powerful tools for unearthing correlations among observed variables — more What.
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Replying to @AdamHertz
I felt like some of this description from
@AnimaAnandkumar suggested the goal was causality. "Drive data"pic.twitter.com/xaGVyJ4gpO
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Replying to @AdamHertz @AnimaAnandkumar
maybe they're still not causal, just unobserved and still correlative? ;)
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Replying to @marshallk @AdamHertz
I meant it in a broad sense.. it could be causal or correlative factors, depending how we model them
12:05 PM - 26 Jun 2016
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