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Climbing the Kaggle Leaderboard: Bank Marketing with XGBoost

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:August 30, 2025
  • Post category:AI/Machine Learning/Uncategorized
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I recently joined Kaggle Playground Series – Season 5, Episode 8, a competition based on the classic UCI Bank Marketing dataset. The goal is straightforward: given customer demographics, account balances,…

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Augmenting My Playing‑Card Classifier with AI‑Generated Test Cards

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:July 27, 2025
  • Post category:AI/Fun/Machine Learning
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Introduction In my previous post, I walked through building a TensorFlow‑based playing‑card classifier that "guesses" the value of a card when presented an image of it. Once that was up…

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Playing Card Classifier Using Machine Learning

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:July 13, 2025
  • Post category:AI/Machine Learning
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Introduction I've been taking classes online with the goal of getting certifications in machine learning.  The course "TensorFlow Developer Certificate - Image Classification" described how to put together a Convolutional…

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Exploring the Edge of AI with One Family Photo

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:April 18, 2025
  • Post category:AI/Fun
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I love this photograph.  It's shot by my niece, with my dad, sister and her husband surrounding my Mom.  She didn't hear that this was a "silly pose" picture, and…

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Using AI to Rework My Resume: The Wins, The Struggles, and The Surprises

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:February 25, 2025
  • Post category:Uncategorized
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Like most people, I don’t update my resume nearly as often as I should. And when I do, I usually rely on my memory to piece together the details of…

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Roadrunner: Simulating Traffic with Mapbox, Redis, and Kubernetes

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:January 25, 2025
  • Post category:GIS/Mapping/Kubernetes/Simulation
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Remember "Snowpocalypse"? About 10 years ago, Atlanta faced a surprising blizzard that brought the city to a standstill. What started as a normal workday turned into a city-wide parking lot…

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Hello World! (The Blog Edition)

  • Post author:Steve Tarter
  • Post published:January 21, 2025
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I'm excited to launch this blog as a companion to my coding journey. Here, I'll be sharing updates, insights, and probably a few head-scratching moments from my ongoing projects.Currently, I'm…

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