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Transfer Learning Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Detect Spoofs in Fingerprints
Transfer Learning Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Detect Spoofs in Fingerprints This was originally done as a part of a class project. Abstract Detection of fake fingerprints is an important task in the field of biometrics. Classifiers must be able to distinguish not only fingerprints from other fingerprints but real...
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Machine Learning on DOTA 2 Statistics
DOTA 2 is a heavily played game, with 640,227 average players in June of 2016.1 Recently, I had the chance to do an independent study at the University Of Missouri - Kansas City looking at the YASP Dota 2 Dataset2. I tried to answer two different questions: How accurately could...
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Myth of Meritocracy
Many in the tech industry have described their companies as ‘meritocracies’, which should, in theory, be a good thing. Thinking that a company is a meritocray leads to a lot of problems though, as Github recently acknowledged by doing away with it’s rug claiming that they are a meritocracy. Many...