Candid Takeaways and Useful Lessons from Training VLMs for Ophthalmology
I’ve spent the past 3 months at my job fine-tuning vision language models to be better at analyzing ophthalmic imaging data. We initially expected quick and...
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The Math Behind Asteroid Impact Prediction - Will the Flat-o-Saurs Go Extinct?
65 million years ago, the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid. The Flat-o-saurs are like the dinosaurs, but they live on a 2D planet called plane-et (wh...
The Surprisingly Hard Problem of Polycube Enumeration
In my Intro to Engineering class, we were tasked with designing a Megaron puzzle cube. A Megaron cube consists of 5 puzzle piece (each built out of some num...
What is Object Detection and how do R-CNN models do it?
What is Object Detection You probably know what image classification is - a model takes an image with some kind of object and labels what the object is. Obj...
Algorithmic Gerrymandering 2 - The Fun Part (Optimization)
The Foundations In the previous article, we created a lattice model to represent the map we have to gerrymander, where all the tiles belong to one giant regi...
Algorithmic Gerrymandering 1 - Modelling Population and Voter Distributions
What is Gerrymandering? In a representative democracy, a state is divided into districts. Each district can elect one representative. States redraw distric...