A deep dive into advanced evaluation for data scientists, discussing why accuracy is often misleading and exploring alternative metrics for classification and regression tasks like ROC-AUC, Log Loss, R², RMSLE, and Quantile Loss.
Elena Brandt, cofounder of Besample, was asked to leave a Y Combinator event for female founders because her baby was cooing during a talk about motherhood and entrepreneurship. She argues that this highlights the tension between family and business and calls for more support for mothers in the startup world.
