Tag: machine-learning
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When Automation Fails
The Story The case for automation was good – thousands of claims needing audits, overwhelming a team of claims experts, but where over 90% of audits found nothing wrong. The machine learning task was a straightforward supervised learning exercise: we had the results of 100,000 audits as labeled data; given those results and the underlying…
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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…