Great to see this picked up on HN - it's really interesting work. Terence is my colleague at USF (in fact he's the guy that got me to go there!) and it was great to see the journey from "could this possibly work" to "holy crap it does work!" over a period of many months. He's known for his work with parsers, of course (i.e. ANTLR), but recently he's been investing heavily in machine learning. This project is a great example of how domain experts can go into whole new areas by building on top of machine learning methods.

For anyone interested in getting into machine learning, I hope you'll consider the MSAN program at USF (https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/analyt...). Terence is the guy that made this program happen at USF and it's turned into something really special.

Disclaimer: I'm a deep learning researcher and teacher at USF.