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    Navigating AI/ML Uncertainty: Insights Borrowed from Election Polling

    Though not immediately obvious, data scientists who train and evaluate artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML) models encounter many...
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    Why, When, and How to Retrain Machine Learning Models

    Once you train a machine learning model effectively, it has the ability to perform incredibly useful tasks, like detecting objects on real-time...
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    Demystifying CV: The Power of Convolution in Neural Networks

    Computer vision is an innovative field of research that aims to provide computers with an understanding of digital imagery, often through artificial...
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    Understanding Neural Networks and the Training Process

    Training a neural network involves a lot of mathematics, including linear algebra and multivariate calculus, and a lot of computation. The purpose of...
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    Pruning ResNets for Fun and Profit

    What are Neural Networks? Neural networks are highly parameterized functions which can be trained to fit/represent/model data. Parameterized models...
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