The Chinese Room is a 1980 thought experiment from the philosopher John Searle. The Wikipedia summarizes the setup:
read more[S]uppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese. It takes Chinese characters as input and, by following the instructions of a …
I just deleted my intermediate data and models for Kaggle’s Happywhale competition. I did terrible, never getting much above pure random guessing. Which was frustrating, because it’s a problem in Machine Learning that I’m very interested in (and want to …
read moreDon’t join a team too quickly. Once you’re on a Kaggle team:
Unless you have a very good sense of what exactly your teammates are bringing to …
read moreAt the risk of saying, “Yeah, it’s in the docs,” this is what I did. I think the crucial thing is installed things in the proper order, so I would advise going step-by-step:
conda installed (brew install conda if …Get the source code and data on Github
This demonstrates how you create a multistep AzureML pipeline using a series of PythonScriptStep objects.
In this case, the calculation is extremely trivial: predicting Iris species using scikit-learn's Gaussian Naive Bayes. This pipeline …
read moreI received my Orange 30 in a well-packed box via DHL. My box did not contain a manual, which I think might be an indication that it was among the first few hundred printers shipped. (It did, however, have a USB with what …
read moreOne of my big weekend projects (for longer than I care to think) has been trying to create a pipeline for identifying individual whalesharks from photos. The project had kind of grown moribund as I repeatedly failed to get any decent level of recognition despite using what I thought was …
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