Hey HN, author here.
This post was the result of a small set of experiments that came out of the Paperspace Advanced Technologies Group. We've been working on some pretty ambitious research projects at the intersection of systems, ML, and HCI, and we were evaluating tools and libraries (i.e. Keras and Fast.ai) that would allow us to prototype concepts quickly. (More on our research approach and project structure coming soon). We found this interesting classification task and used it as a testbed for some small scale testing and the results were pretty cool!