Ask HN: What's your favorite technical paper?
What's your favorite technical paper and why? How did it change your thinking or approach to problem solving?
What's your favorite technical paper and why? How did it change your thinking or approach to problem solving?
- Statistical Models for Earthquake Occurrences and Residual Analysis for Point Processes [1] Brought to me by [this](https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2017-09-04-deep-dive-ogat...) blogpost a while ago, for me it shows what a really good statistical analysis based on a model developed for the task at hand looks like. Great stuff.
- Conducting highly principled data science: A statistician’s job and joy [2] Meng is such a good writter. This one really puts into perspective the job of good principles when tackling any kind of task that a data scientist will face. Principles, theoretical principles, are what avoids messing up a task.
1. https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.1988... 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016771521...
1. https://s3.amazonaws.com/systemsandpapers/papers/amazon-dyna...