Roni Kobrosly Ph.D.'s Website

Over the holiday break, I had the opportunity to try out the Cursor Pro, one of the newer and more discussed GenAI coding assistants and IDE. It is meant to be like GitHub CoPilot, but the idea is it is its own IDE and AI is infused into each aspect of it. I learned a lot about both Cursor and the python Django framework through Cursor.

I recently posted on LinkedIn about the state of "data maturity" at organizations and got a lot of feedback. Are organizations, generally, more data mature now than say a decade ago?

The great Benn Stancil wrote a blog post way back in the summer of 2022, and ever since I read it I can't get it out of my mind. As you can guess from the title of this blog post, the topic is: "Do data-driven companies actually win? Some gut-based judgements on the effectiveness of data." We take for granted that collecting data, mining it for insights, and building ML gives companies a competitive edge. Is that true though? Have we rigoriously assessed that?

Whenever I discuss causal thinking with data, people inevitably bring up the topic of automated causal discovery. I get it. It's sort of like the search for El Dorado and would change the field of data science to its core if it were possible. I talk about what it is and how this is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

My updated website and the joys of Terminal CSS and static site generators.