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I Built the Dumbest AI Startup I Could in 90 Minutes.

Before we get into the deets, here are the links if you want to check out what I built:

Yesterday I participated in a 90 vibe-marketing sprint competition. The challenge was to see what you could come up with in 90 minutes as a marketing campaign for an existing or a created product.

Before I began, I asked the organizers—twice—whether I should build something useful or just something cool. Someone told me, “Cool is useful, in marketing.” I don’t really agree with him. I still don’t. But I went for it anyway.

The gang

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Three Days, Two Models, and a Thousand Questions: My FastAI ML Journey

What I Learned While Building Image Classifiers From Scratch

Reading about four words into this post will automatically tell you that this post was written by an AI. Yes, it is annoying. Yes I chose convenience over quality. Yes, I feel bad. I threw in a few sentences out of my very own head in italics so please don’t judge me too much.

Over the course of three intense days, I dove headfirst into the world of machine learning with FastAI. My goal? To build working image classifiers, learn by doing, and avoid passively watching tutorials. What followed was a whirlwind of wins, roadblocks, and a lot of late-night debugging. Here’s what happened, and what I learned.

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