One of the things that makes AI seem neat is that it sometimes…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Manual data labeling behind the AI
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Outsourced work and generative AI
For Rest of World, Andrew Deck turned the AI focus on outsourced workers,…
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Introduction to statistical learning, with Python examples
An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela…
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Oddly specific ad profiles
Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…
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Astericking NBA champions
It seems to have grown more common for basketball fans to complain that…
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Changes to Blackjack payouts so that gamblers lose more to casinos
Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out…
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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…