Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Changes to Blackjack payouts so that gamblers lose more to casinos
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Demonstrating how large language models work
You might’ve heard about large language models lately. They’re the “brains” behind recent…
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AI and the American smile
Jenka Gurfinkel discusses the appearance of the American smile in AI-generated images and…
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NYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard
After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…
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Curiously timed stock trades by ultra-wealthy
Continuing an analysis of IRS records, Robert Faturechi and Ellis Simani for ProPublica…
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NBA will track players with a third dimension
The NBA currently uses player-tracking that estimates player position on the court in…
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Data warehouse at the supermarket
Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…
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Guide for working with machine learning datasets
As part of the Knowing Machines research project, A Critical Field Guide for…
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Why modern popular songs have so many more writing credits
For Tedium, Chris Dalla Riva examined why the number of credited songwriters per…
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Sources and attribution for AI-generated images
AI-based image generation take bits and pieces from existing people-made images and tries…
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Generating music from text
Researchers at Google built a model that generates music based on brief text…
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Manual removal of harmful text to train AI models
AI training data comes from the internet, and as we know but maybe…
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Bias in AI-generated images
Lensa is an app that lets you retouch photos, and it recently added…
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Generative AI trade-offs
People have been having fun with generative AI lately. Enter a prompt and…
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Stable Diffusion to generate spectrograms to convert to sounds
Stable Diffusion is an AI model that lets you enter text to generate…
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Digital face aging with neural network
Disney Research demonstrates their use of neural networks to seamlessly age and de-age…
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Building a happy life, interpreted through data
How to Build a Happy Life from The Atlantic is a podcast on…
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Decline of key changes in popular music
Chris Dalla Riva analyzed key changes in songs that made the Billboard Hot…
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Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue
TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…
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AI-based image generation ethics
AI-based image generation is having a moment. Time some text and you can…
