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2020-03-09 · tomtunguz.com

The Great CEO Within

If you’re looking for a primer on many of the responsibilities of being a startup CEO, read The Great CEO Within. Matt Mochary wrote the book. He founded a company which he sold to MCI and now coaches startup CEOs, amongst other philanthropic efforts. The best part of this book…

2020-03-09 · topbots.com

Dissecting The Transformer

We saw how attention works and how it improved neural machine translation systems (see the previous blogpost), we are going to unveil the secrets behind the power of the most famous NLP models nowadays (a.k.a BERT and friends), the transformer. In this second part, we are going…

2020-03-09 · topbots.com

Decoding NLP Attention Mechanisms

Arguably more famous today than Michael Bay’s Transformers, the transformer architecture and transformer-based models have been breaking all kinds of state-of-the-art records. They are (rightfully) getting the attention of a big portion of the deep learning community and…

2020-03-09 · vitals.lifehacker.com

How to Quit Using a Barbell Pad for Squats

At most gyms, there’s a cylindrical pad on the floor somewhere near the squat rack. (If it’s not there, check the Smith machine.) When I first started squatting, I needed that pad on the bar—or thought I did. How else would I protect my bony neck? But the truth is, you don’t…

2020-03-09 · machinelearningmastery.com

Why Is Imbalanced Classification Difficult?

Imbalanced classification is primarily challenging as a predictive modeling task because of the severely skewed class distribution. This is the cause for poor performance with traditional machine learning models and evaluation metrics that assume a balanced class distribution…

2020-03-09 · distill.pub

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata model of morphogenesis, able to both grow and regenerate specific patterns.