Month: May 2016
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Triathlons: A story in gradual change
Last weekend, I found myself shirtless with swim trunks along with 126 other people in a variety of swim attire on the side of a pool. A number written with a black sharpie on my right arm. It was 6:45 in the morning and I was about to swim 450 meters, then quickly throw on…
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Overfitting
In a probably apocryphal story, an AI research team tried to train a computer to detect a tank among a forest. They showed it 50 tanks in a forest so it could learn what a tank looked like and showed it 50 forests with no tank so it could learn about its absence. Then they…