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The Great AI Disconnect
November 9, 2024I have an uneasy feeling about the way the digital world is getting more and more cluttered with increasingly realistic AI-generated text, images, aud...
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Eccentric billionaire hobby #2 - finding my dog's puppies
March 18, 2023What would this entail? Ideally, I could have done this as soon as I adopted her, because there would have been a greater chance of the puppies still ...
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Eccentric billionaire hobby #1 - exotic cheeses
July 4, 2022While I am nowhere close to becoming a billionaire, I do occasionally daydream about frivolous scenarios that, in all likelihood, will never happen bu...
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Reflections on Kaggle competition [CommonLit Readability Prize]
January 5, 2022The task for the competition was to rate the readability of a passage of text - basically assigning a grade level based on the difficulty of the passa...
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Reflections on Kaggle competition [Coleridge Initiative - Show US the Data]
December 29, 2021The hosts wanted to find all of the mentions of public datasets hidden in published journals and articles. When I say hidden, I mean that the paper re...
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Testing Facebook's RAG model on Harry Potter trivia
September 22, 2021© 2026 Nicholas M Broad. All rights reserved....
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Reflections on Kaggle competition [chaii - Hindi and Tamil Question Answering]
January 5, 2021On the evening of November 15, 2021 I eagerly sat at my computer, counting down the seconds until 7pm. As soon as it did, I hit refresh and my heart s...
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Sentimentr - A tool to visualize bias in news headlines about presidential candidates
January 12, 2020With presidential primaries just around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could tell if there is a consistent bias toward one ...
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