While Model Trains

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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris

A fascinating visual essay that utilizes the Lempel-Ziv algorithm (which powers GIFs, PNGs, and most archive formats) to analyze if pop songs are becoming more repetitive.

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The dangers behind image resizing

Marco Venturelli

"It is essential to carefully choose the library you want to use to perform resize operations, particularly if you're going to deploy your ML solution."

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Why do we minimize the mean squared error?

Alex Molas

A refresher on the theory behind Mean Squared Error.

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