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…

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…

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!

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…

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.

“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…

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…

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…

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…