Pairing lovers story
Your partner (for the fluent writings let’s say it’s a woman), the psychology student, got the grant for the research about the relationships. She created a pre...
Category: Validation
How to recognize digits: Yet another tutorial nobody needs
I don’t know if I’m any better than the people I’m gonna criticize today. Nevertheless, I can’t believe in the scale with which wast...
Sanity checks are your 13th month of work
For a moment I was strongly influenced by Test Driven Development (TDD). It took me a while to relate it to Machine Learning in general. I hope to write a p...
Casting the biggest enemy: Overfitting vs Silent failures
For many years I had a strong conviction that the worst thing I could do is to overfit the training data. I loved to watch these legendary disasters fro...
The holy line of your ML project
Many clients, many servers, dataset versions, database migrations, artificial data, deprecated data, preparing for new functionality. A casual day. Leak...
Clothing recommendation story
A chain of shoe stores asked you to create a clothing recommendation system based on their own database. They have the pictures of shoes of people buying the sh...
Neural Networks common mistakes story
Training Recurrent Neural Networks is a hard task, especially for an inexperienced engineer, that can be surprised by some phenomena specific to that type o...
Adding buildings to Google Maps story
Your goal is to create a classifier that transcripts numbers of houses from pictures. You have 30,000,000 annotated images, and billions of images to tag by...