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Semantic leakage
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Semantic leakage

A person has recently returned from a camping trip and has a fever. Should a doctor diagnose flu or Lyme disease? Would this be any different if they had not mentioned their camping trip? Here’s how LLMs differ from human experts.

Predicting Customer Churn using Machine Learning and AI
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Predicting Customer Churn using Machine Learning and AI

What is customer churn and why should I worry about it? Customer churn is when you have a number of customers in your company and a certain number of them are likely to end their relationship with your company in the near future. Customer churn can be harmful to a business because of the lost revenue and the wasted money on acquiring that customer, as well as the fact that a churned customer may have switched to a competitor, may be dissatisfied, and might leave negative reviews.

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JICL publication: A generative AI-based legal advice tool for small businesses in distress

A generative AI-based legal advice tool for small businesses in distress We are pleased to announce the publication of our paper A generative AI-based legal advice tool for small businesses in distress, in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team based in the UK and Hungary.

Clinical AI Interest Group at Alan Turing Institute

Clinical AI Interest Group at Alan Turing Institute

Thomas Wood presents the Clinical Trial Risk Tool before the November meeting of the Clinical AI Interest Group at Alan Turing Institute The Clinical AI Interest group is a community of health professionals from a broad range of backgrounds with an interest in Clinical AI, organised by the Alan Turing Institute.

Fast Data Science at Ireland's Expert Witness Conference on 20 May 2026
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Fast Data Science at Ireland's Expert Witness Conference on 20 May 2026

Fast Data Science will appear at Ireland’s Expert Witness Conference on 20 May 2026 in Dublin On 20 May 2026, La Touche Training is running the Expert Witness Conference 2026, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland. This is a full-day event combining practical workshops and interactive sessions, aimed at expert witnesses and legal professionals who want to enhance their expertise. The agenda covers critical topics like recent developments in case law, guidance on report writing, and techniques for handling cross-examination.

Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to predict the future
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Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to predict the future

In the past few years, Generative AI technology has advanced rapidly, and businesses are increasingly adopting it for a variety of tasks. While GenAI excels at tasks such as document summarisation, question answering, and content generation, it lacks the ability to provide reliable forecasts for future events. GenAI models are not designed for forecasting, and along with the tendancy to hallucinate information, the output of these models should not be trusted when planning key business decisions. For more details, a previous article on our blog explores in-depth the trade-offs of GenAI vs Traditional Machine Learning approaches.

Getty Images v Stability AI trial concludes - will 'AI training havens' spring up in jurisdictions with lenient copyright laws?
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Getty Images v Stability AI trial concludes - will 'AI training havens' spring up in jurisdictions with lenient copyright laws?

After this ruling, will tech companies move all model training to data centres that they consider “copyright safe”? Will we see a new equivalent of a “tax haven” for training AI models on copyrighted content? An “AI haven”? This article is not legal advice.

Natural Language Processing | What is NLP and how can it help my business? (video)
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Natural Language Processing | What is NLP and how can it help my business? (video)

This new video explains natural language processing: what it is, how it works, and what can it do for your organisation. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that focuses on giving computers the ability to understand human language, combining disciplines like linguistics, computer science, and engineering.

A/B testing
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A/B testing

See also: Fast Data Science A/B test Calculator (Bayesian) A/B testing is a way you can test two things, Thing A, and Thing B, to see which is better. You most commonly hear about A/B testing in the context of commercial websites, but A/B testing can be done in a number of different contexts, including offline marketing, and testing prices.

Bayesian A/B test calculator
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Bayesian A/B test calculator

This free Bayesian A/B test calculator will help you compare two variants of your website, A and B, or two interventions, and tell you the probability that B is better. You can read more about A/B testing in our earlier blog post on the subject. You may also be interested in our Chi-Squared sample size calculator which will help you calculate the minimum sample size needed to run a Chi-Squared test, given an expected standardised effect size.

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