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My roommate has a cat who mostly hangs out in the living room. I never had pets growing up, so I never interact with it. Every so often, when I'm walking past it to get around the …

India is generally not considered to be in South-East Asia.

As someone who aggressively uses conda, I do think one of its downsides is how heavy it is. I agree that it's a good one-stop-shop if you want to get an environment up and running …

And here is a tweet thread on why using NLP models to "fill in" the redacted portions is a horrendously terrible idea. https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1119081131234611201

If anything, I've found Airpods to be extremely visible given their stark white color. As opposed to darker bluetooth headpieces that I often missed.

>I've definitely noticed a much stronger emphasis on wowing visual effects in today's RPG's and a much weaker focus on the story and plot lines as was the case in past games. This …

>As an example, there are many people who like grinding in JRPGs and some even consider it as a defining element of JRPGs (in that a JRPG is not real JRPG if it doesn't have grindi…

I know this talking point has been brought up by different people, but it's worth pointing out that Transformers were already covered in the class in 2018. https://web.stanford.edu…

The success of Transformers aside, I'm not sure you should be relying on model titles for anything, lest we forget papers like "One Model To Learn Them All" [1]. [1] https://arxiv.…

Aren't causal convolutions basically CNNs with masking?

Putting aside the whole Schmidhuber debate - where are people getting this idea that causal convolutions are anywhere near the prominence of RNNS/LSTMs? As far as I'm aware, causal…

The Hug of Death seems to have killed the page so I can't really tell what it's about, but here's an example of inserting new trainable layers in BERT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.0…

There is no constraint that companies must maximize shareholder value. Companies can be set up for any number of reasons (including non-profit reasons).

What is it generally used for though? To me, a "k.v" store sounds like a very generic but nice thing to have, but I still don't have a good sense of what it is and what people thin…

As someone who is fairly tech literate but not familiar with this tech stack - in practical terms, what is Redis, and what is it used for?

The BERT paper also introduced BERT Base, with is 12 layers with approximately the same number of parameters as GPT, but still outperforms GPT on GLUE.

With ELMo, the pretrained weights are frozen. Only the scalars for ELMo layers are tuned (as well as the additional top-level model, of course).

It's relatively small modification of BERT with multi-task fine-tuning and slightly different output heads. It should be easy for any NLP researcher to replicate.

Put another way, even if you take the strict definition of a rational (optimal) agent, in probably any non-trivial or non-contrived corner case, for any arbitrary set of actions, t…

I am aware of the origin of the word. I am distinguishing between the generic notion of a meme (which as you pointed out simply means "transmittable idea", which is an incredibly g…

That's not what's being discussed here. We're talking about when the word 'meme' was repurposed to refer to "Internet trend".

Outsiders to 4chan would probably also be surprised at the site-wide outpouring of genuine sadness, nostalgia and gratitude when moot announced that he was stepping down.

Yes! I needed someone to confirm that people used to call it "fads" before memes.