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

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

Run Any Scheduled Task/Cron Super-Cheap on Google Cloud Platform

Thanks to a few new synergies within GCP products, it’s possible to get the cost of running a scheduled task down to less than a dollar a month.

November 19, 2018 · 6 min

Things About Real-World Data Science Not Discussed In MOOCs and Thought Pieces

MOOCs and thought pieces overfit to a certain style of data science that is not robust to the vast uncertainties of the real world.

October 22, 2018 · 9 min

Problems with Predicting Post Performance on Reddit and Other Link Aggregators

The nature of algorithmic feeds like Reddit inherently leads to a survivorship bias: although users may recognize certain types of posts that appear on the front page, there are many more which follow the same patterns but fail.

September 10, 2018 · 10 min