While Model Trains

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Finding bad flamingo drawings with recurrent neural networks

Colin Morris

Using Sketch-RNN as a probability estimator to identify the worst sketches of flamingos in 'Quick, Draw!'.

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Confession of a so-called AI expert

Chip Huyen

"Even though I’m one of the beneficiary of this AI craze, I can’t help but thinking this will burst. I don’t know how and when, but I have this belief that the system is currently being rigged in favor of people whose resumes dotted with fancy keywords like mine, and a rigged system can’t be sustainable."

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How The New York Times Uses Machine Learning To Make Its Paywall Smarter

Rohit Supekar

How Dynamic Meter, the New York Times ML model that sets personalized meter limits and makes the paywall smarter, works.

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