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Dec 17, 2021

Finding the Next Best Songs with Machine Learning

Using a blend of unsupervised and supervised techniques to emulate “Spotify Recommended” — Music is an important component of our daily lives. We dance, sing, enjoy, and cry simply because of music. But what music is right for any given moment? Spotify tries to use song, playlist, and other data to predict this. In this article, I seek to demonstrate the steps needed…

Machine Learning

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Finding the Next Best Songs with Machine Learning
Finding the Next Best Songs with Machine Learning
Machine Learning

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Science and Philosophy

·Dec 14, 2021

The Morality of OnlyFans and Sexually Explicit Content

An Analysis via Kantian Ethics — Sex work has transitioned over time from physical to primarily digital. While the medium has changed, the stigma of recent centuries remains. OnlyFans, a content hosting subscription service used primarily by sex workers to share pornographic content, told their users “sexually explicit” content would no longer be allowed on the…

Onlyfans

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The Morality of OnlyFans and Sexually Explicit Content
The Morality of OnlyFans and Sexually Explicit Content
Onlyfans

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Towards Data Science

·Nov 14, 2021

Does BERT Need Clean Data? Part 1: Data Cleaning.

Detecting disasters with 84% accuracy and testing NLP methods to find the best way to clean data for BERT. — If I describe Beyoncé’s Met Gala dress as a “hurricane”, does Hurricane Beyoncé become a thing? Not interested in cleaning data and just want to learn about the varying levels of data cleaning and how this affects BERT? Skip to Part 2. Introduction In this article, we use the Disaster Tweets…

NLP

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Does BERT Need Clean Data? Part 1: Data Cleaning.
Does BERT Need Clean Data? Part 1: Data Cleaning.
NLP

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Towards Data Science

·Nov 14, 2021

Does BERT Need Clean Data? Part 2: Classification.

Now for the fun stuff. Light cleaning, heavy cleaning, or no language models at all? Finding the best way to clean data for BERT. — By the end of this article, you should be able to get a top 50 score (84% accuracy) on the NLP Disaster Tweets Kaggle Competition!

NLP

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Does BERT Need Clean Data? Part 2: Classification.
Does BERT Need Clean Data? Part 2: Classification.
NLP

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Nov 8, 2021

Part 5: Interpreting Machine-Predicted X-Ray Captions and Concluding Remarks

We have generated captions; now what can we say about our technique? — This is the fifth article in a five-part series on Using Computer Vision and NLP to Caption X-Rays. The goal of this project aims to measure the similarity of machine-predicted captions to actual captions provided by doctors. Our process has been broken down into the following topics: Part 1: Cleaning…

NLP

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Part 5: Interpreting Machine-Predicted X-Ray Captions and Concluding Remarks
Part 5: Interpreting Machine-Predicted X-Ray Captions and Concluding Remarks
NLP

5 min read


Nov 5, 2021

Project Overview: Using Computer Vision and NLP to Caption X-Rays

Data cleaning, deep learning, and model deployment to replace radiologists. — Automation has been a major driving force of increased efficiency, reliability, and speed across multiple industries, ranging from banking to transportation to agriculture. In this project, we investigate the potential of deep learning models to automate the process of medical image reporting, looking specifically at chest X-ray images.

X Rays

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Project Overview: Using Computer Vision and NLP to Caption X-Rays
Project Overview: Using Computer Vision and NLP to Caption X-Rays
X Rays

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Aug 27, 2019

Chapter 1: San Francisco

“Time speeds up as you grow older” turns out to be the truth. — A quick recap of what my year looked like at Minerva outside of academics. For me to remember and for you to enjoy. As I enter my sophomore year of Seoul (South Korea) and Hyderabad (India), I thought I’d take a brief glance back to the past to hype me…

Education

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Chapter 1: San Francisco
Chapter 1: San Francisco
Education

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Jun 11, 2019

Why I Chose Minerva & Why I’m Glad I Did

My freshman year has come to an end. — It is the end of my freshman year and I’m still receiving the same question. One that probably won’t go away for a long time. It comes from family, friends, even acquaintances, and often sounds something like “so, why on Earth did you choose Minerva?” To be fair, it is…

Education

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Why I Chose Minerva & Why I’m Glad I Did
Why I Chose Minerva & Why I’m Glad I Did
Education

7 min read


Feb 3, 2019

The Power of a San Francisco Coffee

Have you ever asked a silly question? I have. Peet’s Coffee. 4:45 pm. “Uh, hi. What is the iced latte like?” “Well, it’s a latte and it’s iced.” The lady behind the counter answered. Suddenly, a smile produced whitened teeth and she burst out laughing. I honestly didn’t find it…

Coffee

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The Power of a San Francisco Coffee
The Power of a San Francisco Coffee
Coffee

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Aug 16, 2018

Culture — what we live for.

The importance and intuitive appeal of culture became apparent to me through my work as Chief Graphic Designer of my high school’s languages magazine. I quickly realised that although the articles my classmates write are interesting, few would read the magazine if it wasn’t aesthetically appealing. It was my job…

Design

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Culture — what we live for.
Culture — what we live for.
Design

3 min read

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