Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. One of these men is the Rock, the actor. The other? A wax version of the Rock, aka a “Synthetic Control,” crafted to look like… well, the first guy. Personally, I prefer the real Rock—especially in that disaster movie where California plunges into the ocean thanks to a massive earthquake—but I digress. This podcast dives into an equally obscure data science technique, “synthetic control,” that helps prove causality when a clean A/B test isn’t possible.

Who would have thought Andrej Karpathy, the mastermind behind Tesla’s “it’s not advanced cruise control, it’s autopilot,” wrote his PhD dissertation on Barack Obama? Check out the podcast to learn more. #Tesla

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/main.pdf

Instrumental variables are a fancy technique data scientists use to prove causality—I think I spend about 50% of my time in meetings reminding executives "correlation isn't causation" (I'm VERY popular). But let’s be real, you’ve got about as much chance of finding a naturally occurring “instrumental variable” as you do of spotting Bigfoot. That’s why A/B testing is so powerful—it’s like buying a Bigfoot costume off Amazon and terrifying hikers, but with stats!

MrBeast has racked up over 300M subscribers on Youtube and is known for pushing the boundaries on innovation, as well as kids' waistlines with his overly fatty "Feastables" chocolate bars. Today, we deep dive into his recently leaked internal document, a top-secret recipe for going viral that’s spicier than the time he gave away an island. Who would have thought he was obsessed with analytics?

Let's talk about my favorite topic: myself, in the third person

https://www.proquest.com/docview/1237283080

Dmitri A. Dolgov is the CEO of Waymo. This podcast explains his PhD dissertation from 2006 (Computer Science Department, University of Michigan).

https://ai.stanford.edu/~ddolgov/dolgov06phd.html