Max Woolf

Max Woolf

About Me

Max Woolf (@minimaxir) is currently a Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco.

In his spare time, Max uses Python to gather data from public data sources and R to plot plenty of pretty charts from that data. On other occasions, Max creates open source software on his GitHub.

More recently, Max has been developing tooling for AI content generation, such as aitextgen for easy AI text generation.

Max’s projects are funded by his Patreon. If you have found anything on this website helpful, please help contribute!

Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.
July 18, 2020 11 min read AI, Text Generation
Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2
Here’s how you too can create an AI bot to parody any Twitter user, even if you’re not a coder!
January 16, 2020 8 min read AI, Text Generation
How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2
Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK
Box plots, when used correctly, can be a very fun way to visualize big data.
October 23, 2019 8 min read Data Visualization, Data Science, Big Data
Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK
Experiments with Making Convincing AI-Generated Fake News
Can the CTRL model create the “fake news” OpenAI was concerned about? Let’s put it to the test.
September 30, 2019 10 min read AI, Text Generation
Experiments with Making Convincing AI-Generated Fake News
How To Make Custom AI-Generated Text With GPT-2
Thanks to gpt-2-simple and this Colaboratory Notebook, you can easily finetune GPT-2 on your own dataset!
September 4, 2019 10 min read AI, Text Generation
How To Make Custom AI-Generated Text With GPT-2
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