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Dense Slides: New York Times' Connections: A Case Study on NLP in Word Games — Shafik Quoraishee, NYT Games

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New York Times' Connections: A Case Study on NLP in Word Games — Shafik Quoraishee, NYT Games

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This deck is slide-only. The existing captured video frame set supplies candidate frames, then local OpenCV rejects sponsor/title/speaker-only frames, crops visible slide surfaces, deduplicates, and saves the cropped slide images.

Cropped Visible Slides

• Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
• AI slide classifier: content_slide confidence 0.98
• Text source: agent_vision.

Slide text:

About Me

Game/AI Developer at The New York Times

Worked previously for Business Insider, The NBA, MTV and the Department of Defense

• Recreated text/layout view: open HTML recreation
• AI slide classifier: content_slide confidence 0.99
• Text source: agent_vision.

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Caveats to the Work You Are About to See

This is all my own independent research and experimentation, and not currently specifically based on New York Time’s internal research

Classification audit: raw/sources/slide-ai-classification/dense/P_uhFGH4J9Y/audit.json