Dear readers and followers. This is a brief end-of-year report that I would like to share as 2019 is about to enter our space. I am very gratified with the warm and wide acceptance of #Bookofwhy and its key messages: the inevitability of causal
modeling and the logic ...
... the logic imposed by the Ladder of Causation. The need to marry ML and CI has become a popular banner even in communities that are strangers to CI. The introductions of free courses on graphical models at @HarvardEpi and Microsoft
(DoWhy) [there may be others] promise to.
...promise to end decades of confusion and bewilderment that were perpetuated by sluggish educational and editorial establishments. Some disagreements do remain, among them the debate over manipulability ucla.in/2EpxcNU
and the need for a three-level hierarchy.
But these differences are bound to disappear, I believe, as soon as the full power
of structure-based tools become familiar to the community. To that end, I would like to provide free access to Chapter 4 of Primer (ucla.in/2KYYviP), which develops and exemplifies ...
harmonious symbiosis of counterfactuals, structural models and
the do-operator -- ucla.in/2G2rWBv.
Enjoy, and may 2019 make our collective understanding dwarf
that of 2018. #Bookofwhy