Between Test & Train #2

Hello MachineHackers,?

Welcome to the MachineHack Weekly Newsletter Called?“Between Train And Test”.?Wishing everyone in the MachineHack community a very happy and productive 2023.?May all your models converge. ????

At MachineHack, we firmly believe that our users build the future. Since we know you're busy building the future, we promise to keep things light and fun while still delivering the information you need to succeed. So sit back, relax, and let us do the heavy lifting while you enjoy the second edition of the newsletter.?

And remember, as always, the only thing smarter than an AI is the person who programmed it.

Highlights From MachineHack Universe?

The team at MachineHack decided to spend their new year weekend in a variety of ways. Some decided to travel and Machinehackers made it to various parts of the country, while some preferred a silent at-home welcome to the new year. As the team at MachineHack marches into 2023, full of new energy and the same old enthusiasm.?

Tarun, who builds reliable backend systems at MachineHack, celebrates his birthday today. Join me in wishing him an amazing birthday and a great year ahead. ??

In 2023, we are seeing a new wave of developers turning back to AI after the crypto crash. Understandably, technologies such as machine learning and AI, which have proven track records of having immense value propositions for the world, are winning again. At MachineHack, here is what we see as Web3 devs pivoting to AI.

Speaking of amazing AI developers, we would like to congratulate the winners of our latest learning and campus hackathons. MachineHack saw record participation at RCPIT, Shirpur, with more than 600+ participants. Congratulations to the students and faculty at the institute for conducting an?amazing ML competition?experience.?

We recently concluded the?Taxi Trip Fare Prediction Challenge?on MachineHack. Congratulations to?Sumanta Basak, Abdul Khader J, and Sylas John Rathinaraj?for doing amazingly well at the competition and winning passes to?MLDS 2023.???

Speaking of MLDS 2023, MachineHack will be participating in the premium developer event. To get tickets,?click here. As we prepare behind the scenes to create a memorable experience for visitors, we hope to see you there.

The newly launched MachineHack blog section also sees great new articles relating to beginner and advanced topics with writers worldwide. Some of our favorite reads include?this one about LLMs, this one?about data scarcity, and?this one about backpropagation.

Future Tease Updates

Heading into 2023, as a team, we decided to give MachineHack’s overall experience a new twist. Here is what’s coming up:

1. MachineHack goes dark. I will leave it at that. Coming soon, next week! ????
2. Huge MLDS updates and activities. We will give you an update on what you can expect from MachineHack at MLDS.?
3. We are working hard to develop an anti-cheating measure for our competition. We will unveil it at one of our upcoming competitions in January.
4. Behind the scenes, we can’t wait to unveil our partnership with Google and bring you to the next level of MachineHack competition experiences. ??

Singularity Updates

As promised, some updates remind us of the upcoming Singularity.?

1. We are in a world where we need to statistically watermark all of GPT-3 generated text, so we can separate human written content from GPT-generated text. [Link here]??
2. Computer vision helps in advancing the understanding of how human cells self-organize. [Link here]
3. Bing can beat Google, standing on the shoulders of GPT, or so they say. [Link here]