Deep Learning, NLP, NMT, AI, ML
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In this article NEW RESEARCH Hide and seek with Spectres Attack methods like Spectre exploit speculative execution, one of the key performance optimizations of modern CPUs. Microsoft researchers
Read morePython’s zipfile is a standard-library module intended to manipulate ZIP files. This file format is a widely adopted industry standard when it comes to archiving and compressing digital data. You can use it to package together several related files. It also allows you to reduce the size of your files and save disk space. Most importantly, it facilitates data exchange over computer networks. Knowing how to create, read, write, populate, extract, and list ZIP files using the zipfile module is […]
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Python namespace packages are an advanced Python feature. You may have heard them mentioned in relation to the __init__.py file. Specifically, if you don’t include at least an empty __init__.py file in your package, then your package becomes a namespace package. For the most part, namespace packages and regular packages won’t behave differently when it comes to using them in your project. In fact, you’ve probably accidentally forgotten to include an __init__.py file in at least one package but didn’t […]
Read moreAs AI continues to become more prevalent in our lives, it is crucial to consider the ethical implications of its use. Although AI can augment and revolutionize how we live, work, and interact with each other, it can also cause harm if not used or developed correctly. People can be wrongly imprisoned when facial recognition systems fail in law enforcement and the judicial system. People can be killed if self-driving cars fail to correctly see them as pedestrians on the […]
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There were plenty of interesting pre-prints on arXiv in February. Here is a brief summary of three that I think are cool but could get lost in the hundreds of papers that went public. The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation Folks from Google experimented with few-shot MT based on language-model. Instead of using one of the cool huge language models we all know, they train their smaller ones. They prepare specific bi- and tri-lingual LMs (8B parameters; […]
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Python’s iterators and iterables are two different but related tools that come in handy when you need to iterate over a data stream or container. Iterators power and control the iteration process, while iterables typically hold data that you want to iterate over one value at a time. Iterators and iterables are fundamental components of Python programming, and you’ll have to deal with them in almost all your programs. Learning how they work and how to create them is key […]
Read morePython’s collections module provides a factory function called namedtuple(), which is specially designed to make your code more Pythonic when you’re working with tuples. With namedtuple(), you can create immutable sequence types that allow you to access their values using descriptive field names and the dot notation instead of unclear integer indices. If you have some experience using Python, then you know that writing Pythonic code is a core skill for Python developers. In this video course, you’ll level up […]
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The main data structure that you’ll use in NumPy is the N-dimensional array. An array can have one or more dimensions to structure your data. In some programs, you may need to change how you organize your data within a NumPy array. You can use NumPy’s reshape() to rearrange the data. The shape of an array describes the number of dimensions in the array and the length of each dimension. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to change the shape […]
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The terminal can be intimidating to work with when you’re used to working with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, it’s an important tool that you need to get used to in your journey as a Python developer. And once you level up your skill of using the terminal, it becomes an extremely powerful tool in your repertoire. With just a few commands in the terminal, you can do tasks that are impossible or at least very tedious to do in […]
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