2020-03-09 · observablehq.com

Introduction to D3 / MIT Visualization Group / Observable

So far in 6.859, we've primarily been working with visual analysis grammars like Vega-Lite or VizQL (Tableau). These grammars break visualization design down into a process of specifying mappings (or visual encodings) between data fields and the properties of graphical objects…

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…