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Product case studies by Vu Nguyen
Making Sensei
I taught a phone to see a mahjong hand, then decide what to discard. These are the mistakes that turned two small models into one product.
I Couldn't Read the Tiles, So I Taught My Phone
I still can’t read every tile, so I taught my phone to read them for me.
- One photo
- Can you name these four tiles?
- The test
- Darkness barely mattered. Tile size did.
- The search
- 71 builds, and the benchmark I ran wrong
Teaching My Phone to Play Mahjong
I could write the rules. I wasn’t good enough to write its strategy. So I trained an AI model that learns by playing.
- One move
- Which tile would you throw away?
- Learning
- Points at the end of the round are the only feedback
- In my pocket
- 8.9 MB, and every decision made on the phone