In statistics, we often talk of "outliers," observations that appear so far from the average that they teach us something about the underlying data and how they came to be. This is a concept that has ...

Alfred Lin doesn’t just accept contradictions; he searches for answers within them. Less than five minutes after sitting down, he and I are talking about examining contradictory ideas simultaneously.

Machine learning algorithms aren't just technological novelties relegated to tasks like picking out faces in crowded places. In the enterprise, they can surface patterns and relationships that would ...