Category: Machine Learning
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The Knowledge Trap
“A little learning is a dangerous thing” – Alexander Pope The Temptation You have a large body of unstructured text, and a problem to solve. Perhaps you need to summarize the text or identify topics. Perhaps you need to extract the essential information from the text or find authoritative answers to questions. The traditional approach…
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On Genies
What ChatGPT Started On November 30, 2022, OpenAI announced a research preview of its new conversational model, ChatGPT. Over the next 3.5 years, AI became a major topic of public interest, as illustrated by the chart below showing the relative frequency of queries for the term “AI” as reported by Google Trends. What the graph…
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Neutrino Hunting, part 2
In my previous post, I talked about neutrino detection, and about the Kaggle competition IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice, which challenged participants to reconstruct the direction of neutrinos from data on Cherenkov radiation given off by charged particles created by neutrino interactions in the ice at the South Pole. As I mentioned, the contest…
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Neutrino Hunting, Part 1
IceCube Competition on Kaggle In early 2023, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory sponsored a competition on Kaggle called IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice. As a former physics and astronomy student, and an on-and-off Kaggle participant, I was intrigued. Neutrino Physics and Astronomy Neutrinos are electrically neutral particles given off by beta decay, as well as…