Research

Text Mining Shakespeare's First Folio

Eric Kammers / 2021-11-05
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In the age of big data, it is no surprise that the rate data is produced has exponentially increased. In 2013, research company SINTEF cited a claim that 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the past two years! While more data is created, this does not necessarily mean inferring conclusions from it has become any easier. For instance, text…
thoughts

A key is made, but what is the lock?

Shuai Huang / 2021-09-22
During a class lecture about deep learning, a student asked me what that key on the slides was made for. The “key” he mentioned was actually an architecture of a deep net model that was built to detect surgical site infection based on wound images. It looked like a key, while in a certain sense it indeed was a key since it unlocked the mystery about a given…
Research

The Galton Machine and the Normal Distribution

Shuai Huang / 2020-08-30
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How to interpret the normal distribution? Let’s take a look at the Galton Machine. You may have seen this in somewhere, such as the New York Hall of Science or the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. The inventor was Sir Francis Galton who was a Mathematician in 19th century. When the balls are dropped from the center top of the machine,…
Instruction

An Introduction to CI2

ci2 / 2020-08-20
The ci2.us is an online community for anyone who wants to share their technical writing projects within the following genres: