NLP News Cypher | 02.23.20

NLP News Cypher 02.23.20

Dacă nu riști nu câștigi If you are wondering what the subtitle means, it’s Romanian. It means this: via GIPHY How was your week? Last week we updated The Big Bad NLP Database once more, thank you to Ayman Alhelbawy for contributing! [UPDATE] Big Bad NLP Database 😎 We've updated the database with 25 new…

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NLP News Cypher | 02.16.20

NLP News Cypher 02.16.20

And… We’re back! How was your week? Last week was intensely fun and adventurous, many new datasets, studies, and NLP research were shot out of a cannon! Also in NYC, the AAAI conference happened. And there, the Turing award winners (LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton) came together for some exciting talks. Yoshua was so excited he…

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NLP News Cypher | 02.09.20

NLP News Cypher 02.09.20

To Hell and Back… DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a.k.a. the Agency that Builds 👽 Spacecraft (ABAS), really loves NLP. More specifically, they really like building multi-modal models for enhancing knowledge graphs. Apparently, they also have their own YouTube channel called DARPAtv.🤷‍♂️ Halfway during the video above, the fellow dives into a word…

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NLP News Cypher | 02.02.20

NLP News Cypher 02.02.20

The Die Is Cast Today is 02.02.20  - the first global palindrome day in 909 years. 👀 How was your week? Well, if you live anywhere near the NLP universe, you’ve probably stumbled on the NLP database. If you haven’t, you should! Next, I want to give a shout-out to two database contributors from the past week:…

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NLP News Cypher | 01.26.20

Big Bad NLP Database Update And… we’re back! How was your week?? We’re continuing our hard work on the NLP Database! During the mid-week, we added 21 datasets and user contribution has helped tremendously, they are mentioned here: We've updated the NLP database! We added 21 new datasets! In addition, we've also added a new…

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NLP News Cypher | 01.19.20

NLP News Cypher 01.19.20

Towards AI and Infinity And… we’re back! What a week! First, we are happy to announce we are now publishing our weekly blog on Towards AI’s platform💪💪! Happy for this publishing partnership as we intend to bring NLP trends to a more global audience from developers in NYC to business professionals in Hong Kong. And…

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NLP News Cypher | 01.12.20

NLP News Cypher 01.12.19

The Truth Hurts… Perhaps, you can tell me what’s best. I trained a GPT-2 medium model on 18K+ tweets. Connected the model to Twitter’s API. Every 30 minutes it says things – sometimes funny… this is so awesome: #rockets — 21st Century AI Angst (@angst_gpt2) January 12, 2020 In the words of the great rocker,…

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NLP News Cypher | 12.29.19

NLP News Cypher 12.29.19

Over the Hills and Far Away Queue the tumbleweeds. T’was a slow week. The holiday slumber has tamed us all. As a result, this week’s Cypher will be on the short end. 😔 First, want to thank all the readers who have emailed saying how much they enjoy Cypher. We have a great time sharing…

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NLP News Cypher | 12.15.19

NLP News Cypher | 12.15.19

Busy Week at NeurIPS 2019! And, we’re back! Ok, NeurIPS comes to a thundering finish as TONS of research was discussed throughout the week. Also, several insightful reports were released covering the state of machine learning in the private industry which we’ll cover in-depth. As a result, this week’s edition will be slightly longer than…

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NLP News Cypher | 11.17.19

NLP News Cypher 11-17-2019

Gearing Up for NeurIPS 2019… While we wind down from the recent EMNLP conference, NeurIPS 2019 is just around the corner starting on Dec. 8 thru the 14th! For a quick rundown of the NeurIPS’ metadata (authors, topics etc), check out this post: NeurIPS 2019 Stats The Thirty-third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems…

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NLP News Cypher | 11.10.19

NLP News Cypher 11/10/2019

Echoes from EMNLP and GPT-2 Strikes Back Wow, what a week it was. The EMNLP conference gave us many treats to chew on such as the growing popularity of cross-lingual learning and the continued adoption of knowledge graphs in language models. Because of all this action, this week’s Cypher will be a bit longer than…

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NLP Cypher

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This Week’s Content -T5, Google’s New Transformer – Facebook’s RoBERTa Distilled by Hugging Face -Multiprocessing vs. Threading -Fine-Tuning BERT, a Tutorial -Microsoft’s UniLM AI Improves Summarization T5 | The New SOTA Transformer from Google A new entrant in the transformer school of hard-knocks was unveiled yesterday by Google called T5. This new transformer achieved new…

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