]]>How a $5-a-month VPS ended up running a machine learning competition with nation-wide students Five dollars. That’s what I spent on the server. That server ended up running a machine learning competition with 60+ participants from 10 schools, where the stakes weren’t just a leaderboard position. The competition could…
]]>Building a lightweight computer vision pipeline for recognizing student engagement from skeletal keypoints This story is adapted from my journal article: Lighter Student Engagement Recognition in a Classroom Environment Using Skeletal Keypoints If you are a lecturer, teacher, or have done public teaching in general.…
]]>How comparable is human learning to machine learning? A student once told me she was not cut out for machine learning. We were three weeks into the deep learning course, and her training loss had flatlined for the third time in a row. She said it quietly, the way you confess something you have already decided about…
]]>Every paper I review leaves me with something to think about. For a couple of year now, I had the opportunity to review several papers for EMACS. At first, I thought the experience would mostly be about evaluating research: checking the methodology, looking at the results, and deciding whether the conclusions were…