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Hi! Author here. You're right that music and speech carry more than just raw symbols such as intonation, pitch, dynamics, etc. all add important information. But in the framework I…

I redesigned Morse code with modern statistical techniques, including neural networks. NeuralMorse dynamically tokenizes input text and encodes it as sequences of eight tonal alpha…

Here's a more recent meta analysis: Delgado et al., 2018. Don't throw away your printed books: A meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension https://scie…

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I'm interested!

See my comment above. I highly recommend this talk by Stefano Ermon from Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TcNXi3A5DI

If you are interested in learning the intuition & theory behind diffusion and score-based models, I highly recommend this talk by Stefano Ermon from Stanford: https://www.youtube.c…

This has never been a big problem for me. Some clients have strict policies (e.g., only allowing you to work on their servers) while others don't care as much. In some cases, as a …

This has never happened to me (yet).

I do have a CPA and we did an S-corp election for 2019 tax return. This is something I didn't get to mention in the post because we hadn't filed the tax yet.

If your clients are choosing you based on where you are and how your rate compares with other freelancers, I think you have wrong clients.

Yes. I basically charge the same rate in USD no matter where my client is.

Wow, it's nice to see my post on the top page of Hacker News. Note that I wrote this post back in February 2020 and there are a couple of things that I would like to add: - Due to …

SEEKING WORK | Seattle, WA | REMOTE Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) Engineer and Researcher available I am an independent NLP/ML engineer and researcher…

I always wanted to learn to play Go and one of the reasons was because it was the only game where computers hadn't defeated human - well, it is no longer the case and I kind of los…