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The value lies in the inferences drawn from your interactions, which are also stored on your phone—but that data does not belong to you.

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To humans this is basic common sense, but algorithms have a hard time making causal inferences, especially without a large dataset or in a different context than the one they were trained in.

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We’re talking about a small-scale research finding that was the truth in that finding, but because of the mechanics of statistical inference, it just won’t be right.

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You can also find this inference on the web and at events each year around the world.

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If a device is frequenting an NFL stadium, for example, you can infer that the user is a football fan, which allows a host of other inferences to form.

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Backprop can be thought of as one set of neurons doing the inference and another set of neurons doing the computations for updating the synaptic weights.

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For demographic data, it relies on a combination of inferences and zero-party data provided directly by Forbes readers, such as job titles.

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We reported accurate numbers for towns that use a given contract provision, but a reader should not use the data or our analysis to draw inferences about the state as a whole, or about towns that are not in our analysis.

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Still, scientists don’t know for certain what’s happening because the trouble with a really, really minuscule flu season is that it doesn’t leave you enough cases to make solid statistical inferences.

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An AI may learn to associate “rain” with “cats and dogs” in all situations, gaining its inference from the common vernacular describing massive downpours.

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