Sometimes I find these AI / programming hobby projects that I just wished I had thought of… Will Stedden combined OpenAI’s GPT-2 deep learning text generation model with another deep-learning language model by Google called BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and created an elaborate architecture that had one purpose: posting the best replies on…
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Building a $86 million car theft AI in 57 lines of JavaScript
Tait Brown was annoyed at the Victoria Police who had spent $86 million Australian dollars on developing the BlueNet system which basically consists of an license-plate OCR which crosschecks against a car theft database. Tait was so disgruntled as he thought he could easily replicate this system without spending millions and millions of tax dollars….
Realtime Corona Virus Dashboard
John Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering maintains this Corona virus dashboard showing the latest statistics and other information regarding the 2019-2020 outbreak in Wuhan. The dashboard is updated every 15 minutes and demonstrates, among others, the total infected, death toll, recovery rate, and geographical spread.
The 12 Truths of Machine Learning – by Delip Rao
In this original blog, with equally original title, Delip Rao poses twelve (+1) harsh truths about the real world practice of machine learning. I found it quite enlightning to read a non-hyped article about ML for once. Particularly because Delip’s experiences seem to overlap quite nicely with the principles of software design and Agile working….
Why cancer screening is the last thing you should pick first to work on with AI
I came across this opinionated though informed commentary by Vinay Prasad on the recent Nature article where Google’s machine learning experts trained models to predict whether scans of patients’ breasts (mammogram’s) show cancerous cells or not. Vinay Prasad [official bio] is a practicing hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University….
Python Web Scraping: WordPress Visitor Statistics
I’ve had this WordPress domain for several years now, and in the beginning it was very convenient. WordPress enabled me to set up a fully functional blog in a matter of hours. Everything from HTML markup, external content embedding, databases, and simple analytics was already conveniently set up. However, after a while, I wanted to…
Python Web Scraping: Quotes from Goodreads.com
Over the course of last week, I built a Python program that scrapes quotes from Goodreads.com in a tidy format. For instance, these are the first three results my program returns when scraping for the tag robot: Quote author source likes tags Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always–all you did for me. Isaac Asimov Forward…
ArchiGAN: Designing buildings with reinforcement learning
I’ve seen some uses of reinforcement learning and generative algorithms for architectural purposes already, like these evolving blueprints for school floorplans. However, this new application called ArchiGAN blew me away! ArchiGAN (try here) was made by Stanislas Chaillou as a Harvard master’s thesis project. The program functions in three steps: building footprint massing program repartition…
Learn Programming Project-Based: Build-Your-Own-X
Last week, this interesting reddit thread was filled with overviews for cool projects that may help you learn a programming language. The top entries are: Build Your Own X, by Dani Stefanovic Project-based Learning, by Tu Tran Projects from Scratch, by Algory L. Project-based Tutorials in C, by Robby Awesome DIY Software, by Cameron Eagans…
