The Mad-Libs-esque pretraining task that BERT uses — called masked-language modeling — isn’t new. In fact, it’s been used as a tool for assessing language comprehension in humans for decades. For Google, it also offered a practical way of enabling bidirectionality in neural networks, as […]
Day: October 21, 2019
In a big reversal, Libra reportedly could peg its cryptocurrencies to national currencies
Facebook is willing to reverse course on its plans to tie its digital currency project to a synthetic currency tied to a basket of global currencies. Reuters is reporting that Facebook’s head of the Libra project, David Marcus, told a group of bankers that the […]
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The Wikipedia article of the day for October 21, 2019 is Ursula K. Le Guin. Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction. She wrote more than twenty novels and […]
smell you later: Word of the day for October 21, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
smell you later , interj : (humorous, informal) See you later; goodbye.
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Wikipedia picture of the day on October 21, 2019: Landscape of salt and sulfur formations and hot springs on Dallol volcano, Afar Region, Ethiopia https://ift.tt/2MWA470