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ML 13: The Forger (GANs)
Two AIs fighting each other to create fake reality.
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The Idiot's Blog
Unconventional thoughts for conventional times.
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ML 12: The Dog Trainer (Reinforcement Learning)
Training AI with treats and newspapers.
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ML 11: The Attention Seeker (Transformers)
Attention is all you need. Literally.
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ML 10: The Goldfish (RNNs)
Giving computers a memory (even if it's a short one).
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ML 8: The Memorizer (Overfitting)
Why studying by rote memorization fails the test.
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ML 7: The Blind Hiker (Gradient Descent)
How computers learn by falling down a hill repeatedly.
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ML 6: The Mean Girls (K-Means Clustering)
Sorting things when you have absolutely no idea what they are.
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ML 5: The Mob Rule (Random Forests)
Why asking 100 idiots is better than asking one genius.
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ML 4: The 20 Questions (Decision Trees)
How to make decisions like a toddler asking 'Why?' repeatedly.
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ML 3: The Committee (Neural Networks)
Why one idiot is dumb, but three idiots are... Artificial Intelligence? The magic of Hidden Layers.
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ML 2: The Sorting Hat (Logistic Regression)
How to teach a computer to tell 'Hotdogs' from 'Not Hotdogs'. The magic of the S-Curve.
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ML 1: Drawing Lines (Linear Regression)
The simplest machine learning algorithm that basically runs the entire world economy.
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Python 1.1: The Language of Gods (Written by Idiots)
Why the tool that powers ChatGPT and self-driving cars is also the easiest one to learn. Welcome to the Python Series.
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Python 1.2: The Boxes (Variables)
How to remember things without using your brain. Introduction to Variables, Strings, and Lists.
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Python 1.3: The Chores (Loops & Logic)
Making the computer do the boring work while you take a nap. Intro to Loops and If/Else.
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Python 1.4: The Spells (Functions & Classes)
How to package your code so you can copy-paste it later. Intro to Functions ('def') and Classes.
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Python for Idiots: Write Trash, Get Results
Why clean code is a scam and why you should treat Python like a messy notebook.
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Hello World: Why Think Like an Idiot?
The inaugural post explaining the philosophy behind ThinkIdiot.
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Machine Learning for Idiots: It's Just Fancy Guessing
Stop pretending you understand neural networks. Here is what they actually do, explained with hotdogs.
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