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The Meditations Newsletter #062
Alex from Sunsama
Here’s what the entity resolution query looks like:

I’m joining the table with itself on state + zipcode
to reduce the search space and
using string similarity thresholds
for filtering potential duplicates.
In entity resolution methodology this is known as “blocking.”
Fundamental Data Engineering Concepts - Part 2
Ergest Xheblati
As shocking as that might initially seem, we should not to be totally surprised.
Seven years of AI has taught us that deep learning is unpredictable, and not always human like.
“Adversarial attacks” like these have shown remarkable weakness, time and again, repeatedly establishing that what deep learning systems do just isn’t the same as what people do:
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David Beats Go-Liath
Gary Marcus
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