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Ben Halpern
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Have you done anything interesting with AI/ML?

Whether part of your job, school, or just spare time — have you made use of this branch of our field?

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Tawhid

Yes! made a tool to distinguish between ripe and unripe fruits.Unfortunately it's lost in the voids

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Ben Halpern

That's a pretty neat application. I'm sure this sort of thing is already becoming part of the grocery supply chain.

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Tawhid

yea nowadays, but back in the days this was pretty cool ngl

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Medea

woah thats really cool! how did u do it?

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MiguelMJ

Yes! To make a recommendation system for Stack Overflow unanswered questions

GitHub logo MiguelMJ / Answerable

Recommendation system for Stack Overflow unanswered questions

It even allows you to make your own recommendation model, so people who also have experience with ML/NLP can tune even finer if they want ;)

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Bryce Dorn

I've been wanting to & over the weekend applied a deep learning model for facial recognition! Was pretty fun 😄

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Guilherme Thomas

I just finished my project on grain analysis (rice and lentil) to produce quality biodiesel. Used OpenCV so I could classify grains based on lenght-breadth ratio and color. First time doing a research like this but I had a lot of fun.

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Ben Halpern

Wow! Fascinating. What is next for you?

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Uriel Bitton

Interviewer: What is your biggest strength?

Me: I am an expert in machine learning.

Interviewer: What’s 6 + 10?

Me: Zero.

Interviewer: Nowhere near. It’s 16.

Me: Ok, It’s 16.

Interviewer: What is 10 + 20?

Me: It’s 16.

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Keff

Most interesting thing I did was trying to make a music genre identifier using Tensorflow.

I got some results but got kinda bored, never been a big fan of ML. Don't like collecting and labeling data. I could've probably used some api or something to label the music, but couldn't be botherer if I'm honest.

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Medea

thats really cool! how did u make it?

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Burak • Edited

I've made AI Profile Picture Maker for AI people:
mburakerman.github.io/ai-profile-p...

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jrothlander

I have a cross-language (trans) compiler I wrote years ago and I've working on adding AI/ML features to improve it. The most interesting adjustment I have made was to incorporate feature vectorizations on the parsing side and use that in code generation and optimization. I'm still discovering and researching how best to use AI/ML in these tools, and I don't work on it too often since it is a side project. But after only a few months I can already see advantages.

Think about it like this... feature vectorization of the syntax creates binary patterns that can be handled as image recognition problems. So you take the code and convert it to binary, as all compilers do, but instead of converting it to machine code, you vectorize it as features. Those features have patterns that can tell you how to handle code generation and that image recognition can address for optimization.

And yes, I am aware that compilers are not a good fit for traditional AI/ML per say. But we can use AI/ML in various parts of the process to make it work better and require less development efforts.

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Jordan Gregory

I would like to think so. Not to promote too much, but the company I'm a part of (plainsight.ai) is creating a nice platform for anyone to do Computer Vision ML/AI. I've used it a few times to help me more accurately predict when my friends and myself should duck and cover from severe weather :D.

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Matthew Vielkind

I've been tinkering with a chatbot to help me discover / cook recipes. Right now I'm using mostly pre-trained NLP models for the document embeddings and semantic search, which work decent enough for now. I'm planning to fine tune the NLP models to improve search results and maybe add a voice integration with some QA models so I can ask "how much salt do I need?" and get a response instead of always looking back at the recipe.

An early prototype is available here. I mostly work with data on a day-to-day basis so this has also been a learning experience with front-end dev and application deployment!

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Adarsh Goyal • Edited

Check out my blog what I have done with AI/ML at dev.to/adarshgoyal/my-journey-with...

also did this dev.to/adarshgoyal/eyeblink-detect...

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Charanjit Chana

In terms of putting together models or training, no... but I was playing with the AI Art Machine earlier in the year.

On the waiting list for DALLE-2 so I can give that a try too!

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kuwala

Many thing but there was one project which got not too good publications but was definitely a pop cultural thing that made a lot of fun .... Did NLP on Songtexts to detect emotions and topics and correlated it with google books mentions (cold back then ngram from Google a sort of Google Trends before the internet) to show the impact of political happenings on the topics and tonality of different bands

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Matthew Daly

A few years back I wrote a letter classifier in PHP.

Before becoming a developer I worked for an insurer and they would scan any incoming correspondence and have staff classifying it, eg was it a complaint, request for information, request for surrender of their policy etc. I was interested in seeing how practical it would be to automate that. My solution involved taking a PDF file, converting it to a PNG, running it through Tesseract OCR to extract the text, and checking the text using ML to determine the intent.

My solution actually seemed to work reasonably well with my own mocked up examples, but if I was actually doing it for real there would be an extensive corpus of existing documents it could be trained on. Based on this I think it likely my old job won't be around by the end of the decade.

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Max F. Findel

I developed an NLP Classifier for a client 6 years ago and I still maintain it. The tech stack has long gone stale and it could be in much better shape, but it still processes more than 100k customer surveys every month 🤷‍♂️