halfmoth

465 karma · joined January 1, 2012

A known known

https://github.com/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/r2/gu...

halfmoth··on BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

* bidirectional - build representations of the current word by looking into both the future and the past

* pre-trained - train on lots of language modelling data (e.g. billions of words of wikipedia) and then train on the task you really care about but starting from the parameters learnt from the language modelling task.

halfmoth··on Open Source Speech Recognition

that's exactly what we do at speechmatics.com - feel free to give us a try and make the most of the free credits

halfmoth··on Google opens access to its speech recognition API

If you sign up you can scroll down and see the pricing on https://www.speechmatics.com/account/

halfmoth··on Google opens access to its speech recognition API

Will be interesting to compare with http://www.speechmatics.com

halfmoth··on CS Master's Degree

University of Bristol has a great masters conversion course

halfmoth··on Free Bootstrap Themes

"cheerful" in german?

halfmoth··on Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers

Sounds pretty sexist to me

halfmoth··on GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python

Depends, of course, on the architecture but you could be looking at a ~x50 speedup.

halfmoth··on Ask HN: What one thing would you tell your younger self?

Don't live for yourself

halfmoth··on MIT and Harvard announce edX

- The UK is so far behind in this regard.

- This will certainly be at least part of the future of education