Optimizing YouTube thumbnails with deep learning — I recently had the opportunity to visit Michael Petherick, the Chateau YouTuber, and his family at Chateau de la Basmaignee in France. And this is what led me to developing an AI tool for optimizing YouTube thumbnails with the goal of getting an edge over the YouTube algorithm. For some…

Deep learning is as much about creativity as it is about technical know-how. This has been an on-going theme in my own personal career and was reaffirmed by a recent Kaggle competition requiring a creative approach to data processing. After completing Jeremy Howard’s FastAI course, I wanted to test the…

Working through Jeremy Howard’s FastAI course, I came across a section of the book quoting Cheng Guo and Felix Berkhahn’s paper Entity Embeddings of Categorical Variables, “The embeddings obtained from the trained neural network boost the performance of all tested machine learning methods considerably when used as the input features…

The team over at OpenAI have been working on a neural net capable of spontaneously generating novel music, and it is currently considered state-of-the-art in this field. Their approach involves modeling raw audio waveforms — a departure from previous attempts that developed music symbolically (i.e. piano rolls). This has a…

So I recently heard about Yotta Bank from a Graham Stephan video. It is essentially a high-yield savings bank except that they gamify the savings using a lottery system. The whole principle of it described by Graham was really intriguing and I love the concept that it might actually encourage…

I recently just completed the first couple of lessons of Jeremy Howard’s new fastai course (https://course.fast.ai/) where he shows how you can develop a powerful image classification deep learning neural network web application with the popular package. While he does an excellent job of going through the steps, there are…

As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, President Donald Trump has suggested that the virus will “go away” in April due to the warmer weather. The apparent reasoning behind that claim is that other respiratory viruses such as those that cause the common cold and seasonal flu tend to subside during…