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[Statistics] Collinearity in regression

[Statistics] Collinearity in regression

Zhenguo Zhang's Blog https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/10/16/statistics-collinearity-in-regression/ - library(knitr) library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) library(tidyr) library(broom) Problem When performi...

Oct 16, 2026 • 5 min
What is an MCP server?

What is an MCP server?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quietly becoming one of the most useful ideas in AI tooling. Here, we describe what MCP is, why it matters, and how to build an MCP server yourself. MCP is a standa...

Oct 15, 2026 • 5 min
What the Gemini agent means for startups

What the Gemini agent means for startups

Small teams, short runway, and constant pressure to ship faster — it’s the reality we see every day among the founders we work with at Google for Startups. When you are building a company from the gro...

Oct 15, 2026 • 5 min
maestro 1.4.0 adds custom pipeline metrics

maestro 1.4.0 adds custom pipeline metrics

The 1.4.0 release of maestro is out, and with it comes the ability to record custom metrics from your pipelines. Execution time and success/failure were already tracked, but there was no good way to a...

Oct 15, 2026 • 5 min
A Trip from Covariance to Correlation and Back

A Trip from Covariance to Correlation and Back

When we have a multi-trait table of data, we might be interested in investigating variability structure and the reciprocal relationships (whether causal or non-causal) among variables. For example, le...

Oct 14, 2026 • 5 min
Dogs of New York

Dogs of New York

I recently updated nycdogs, a data package for R that I originally made for teaching purposes. It bundles up New York City’s dog licensing and dog bite datasets into an R package. The data is already ...

Oct 14, 2026 • 5 min