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Researchers Chris Downum and Leszek Pawlowicz Use Deep Learning to Accelerate Archaeology - Ep. 154

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Deep Learning - Is This Really a Technique That Really Works?

When we first started doing this, we were using very, very simple models because we were limited by the hardware that i had. I think after we got advanced hardware and we looked at orsoeothes more advanced models, all of a sudden we got a situation where the computer was classifying these sherds by their design type with accuracies that were comparable to in some cases, better than humans. The other moment was when i took a look at figuring out how to take a shirt image and match it with its closest equivalents. That only happened othi last year. And like, oh, if this is going to be really cool, we can havee enormous data bases where anyone

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