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I Found 10,000 Ways That Didn’t Work
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Learnings from getting my feet wet in a #kaggle competitionProtip: If you overfit enough, you will get great results on your training dataThe dust settles on the first Kaggle competition I’ve put serious time into and though still quite far from the coveted top spots, I reached the goal I had set out of earning a first medal for my profile page, and even got a silver medal for placing in the top 2% in the competition, ending up as number 58 out of over 4000 competing teams.More than the end placement though, the competition gave some good learnings when it comes to competitive data science, and data science in general, that I’m noting down in hope it will help other people avoid making the same mistakes I’ve made. Learning from others mistakes is the best strategy after all, since you (...)

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What I learned when trying to improve an AI agent in a game using deep learning
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Late 2018 I participated in kaggle’s “Quick, Draw! Doodle Recognition Challenge”.For those of you who are unaware, below is a short description of this game:“Quick, Draw!” was released as an experimental game to educate the public in a playful way about how AI works. The game prompts users to draw an image depicting a certain category, such as ”banana,” “table,” etc.As part of this competition, a subset of more than 1B drawings was released which had 340 labels. The competitors needed to improve the existing AI algorithm which distinguishes whether a user has correctly been able to draw what was asked for. For each test image, the need was to predict the three most probable classes the doodle might belong to.key_id,word9000003627287624,The_Eiffel_Tower airplane (...)

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