Originally published by Roberto Rocha. One of the most exciting applications of AI in journalism is the creation of structured data from unstructured text. Government reports, legal documents, emails, memos… these are rich with content like names, organizations, dates, and prices. But to get them into a format that can be analyzed and counted, like
Originally published in Amazon Science, Oct 6, 2022. “What should I watch?” In an entertainment universe filled with a rapidly expanding catalog of shows across myriad channels and apps, this might be one of the most common...
Originally published in Amazon Science, Aug 26, 2022. Spliced binned-Pareto distributions are flexible enough to handle symmetric, asymmetric, and multimodal distributions, offering a more consistent metric. When football fans evaluate a player’s performance, they measure the player’s...
Originally published in Anaconda. This year, we conducted our State of Data Science survey to gather demographic information about our community, ascertain how that community works, and collect insights into big questions and trends that are top...
Originally posted on Replit.com, Sept 21, 2022. Large Language Models (LLMs) are known for their near-magical ability to learn from very few examples — as little as zero — to create language wonders. LLMs can chat, write...
Originally published in Netflix TechBlog, Aug 15, 2022. Introduction This writeup is about using reinforcement learning to construct an optimal list of recommendations when the user has a finite time budget to make a decision from the...
Originally published in Noema, Aug 23, 2022. When a Google engineer recently declared Google’s AI chatbot a person, pandemonium ensued. The chatbot, LaMDA, is a large language model (LLM) that is designed to predict the likely next...
Originally published in Mozilla Hacks, July 9, 2022. A browser is an incredibly complex piece of software. With such enormous complexity, the only way to maintain a rapid pace of development is through an extensive CI system that can...
Originally published in NYT Open, Aug 10, 2022. The New York Times launched its paywall in March 2011, beginning its journey as a subscription-first news and lifestyle service. Since its inception, this “metered” access service has been...
