A Thai BERT model that I’d adapted recently appeared in a paper on cross-language learning in biomedicine. This same model is in the spaCy docs. People use it on GitHub and Kaggle. As in most NLP models, I had used a tokenizer which splits text into a stream of words…
Early this year, I uploaded a seq2seq model to generate gender counterfactuals in Spanish (el profesor viejo <-> la profesora vieja). Since then, I debugged some issues, made a general-purpose library, and created an initial seq2seq model for Arabic.
The goal is to see if passing data through process creates…
I heard about this book through a New Yorker article, which describes Harden’s professional and personal journey to “reconcile the findings of her field [genetics] with her commitments to social justice.” Their reporter was careful to position Harden relative to other players in this space of population genetics, statistics, ‘The…
On November 22nd, I received my third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, this time Moderna. It’s seven months after my previous dose in Denver. As I said last time, nothing special happened, but I like to look back on these months later.
It’s much easier to find an appointment on…
When I created GPT-NYC, one part of the experiment was adding hundreds of tokens to capture foods, neighborhood and subway stations, and words common on the /r/AskNYC subreddit, including ‘halal’, ‘touristy’, and ‘gentrified’. …
Following up on a Reddit thread, I picked up this book about the Russian navy’s journey around the world to confront the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima, “[the] first and last decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets” (Wikipedia). …
In image classifiers, a huge library of image augmentation tools crop, rotate, and otherwise edit input images to add variety to the training data and make classifiers more robust.
It’s reasonable to think that a similar technique could improve text data, but editing a sentence is more than moving pixels in…
The Supreme Court, and an Indonesian choose-your-adventure. I’ve started reading a book on the Russian Navy which will appear next month.
This Supreme Court biography opens with a quote (“William O. Douglas was the oddest duck to ever serve on the United States Supreme Court”) and an anecdote which is…
Following up on Podcasts part 1
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asian-enough/id1501446978
Creators: Los Angeles Times
Concept: Interviews with famous/prominent Asian Americans about living their life, growing up, embracing cultures, and current events. Every episode is very different; it depends which celebrities you know and which issues you want to know more about.
Schedule: Weekly…
638 days ago, I went from a BrooklynJS meetup to a late night showing of Star Wars, and then took the 2:30am train back to Boston. We knew it was the final days of 2019, but we had no clue. …
