Machine Translation and Multilinguality in May and June 2022

After a while, here is a dump of what I found most interesting on arXiv about machine translation and multilinguality, covering May and June of this year. Google Research published a pre-print of their NAACL paper: SCONES (Single-label Contrastive Objective for Non-Exclusive Sequences). The paper is about a simple trick: they replace softmax with binary classifiers with a sigmoid output and use the sum of binary cross-entropies as their loss function. It gets a slightly better BLEU and BLEURT score […]

July 8, 2022 NLP

Machine Learning Course Notes

Over the last couple of years, I have been sharing lots of educational content as a way to give back to the community. More recently, I decided to open-source all my study notes which include topics like deep learning, machine learning, and natural language processing. The goal of this new project is to share more about my strategy and thought process of how I gain knowledge and practical skills. All the notes are written using Notion which makes it easy […]

July 7, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery

Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural sciences. The consequences are potentially far-reaching and could dramatically improve our ability to model and predict natural phenomena over widely varying scales of space and time. Could this capability represent the dawn of a new paradigm of scientific discovery? Jim Gray, a Turing Award winner, and former Microsoft Technical Fellow, characterised the historical evolution of scientific discovery through

July 6, 2022 Python

Python News: What’s New From June 2022

June 2022 brought a flurry of exciting news for the Python community! The PSF received funding for a new role focused on security, and held elections for four seats on the board of directors. Results from two important developer surveys were published, and new versions of both Python and some popular packages saw the light of day. PEP 691 got accepted, extending the Simple API for Python packaging indexes. With the Python 3.12 change page live, you can now start […]

July 5, 2022 Python

Using the Python and Operator

Python has three Boolean operators, or logical operators: and, or, and not. You can use them to check if certain conditions are met before deciding the execution path your programs will follow. In this video course, you’ll learn about the and operator and how to use it in your code. In this video course, you’ll learn how to: Understand the logic behind Python’s and operator Build and understand Boolean and non-Boolean expressions that use the and operator Use the and […]

July 4, 2022 Python

Python 3.11 Preview: TOML and tomllib

Python 3.11 is getting closer to its final release, which will happen in October 2022. The new version is currently going through beta testing, and you can install it yourself to preview and test some of the new features, including support for reading TOML with the new tomllib module. TOML is a configuration file format that’s getting more and more popular in the Python ecosystem. This is driven by the adoption of pyproject.toml as the central configuration file in Python […]

June 29, 2022 Python

Python Stacks, Queues, and Priority Queues in Practice

Queues are the backbone of numerous algorithms found in games, artificial intelligence, satellite navigation, and task scheduling. They’re among the top abstract data types that computer science students learn early in their education. At the same time, software engineers often leverage higher-level message queues to achieve better scalability of a microservice architecture. Plus, using queues in Python is simply fun! Python provides a few built-in flavors of queues that you’ll see in action in this tutorial. You’re also going to […]

June 29, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative

Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society. As we continue to explore the role of technology to advance the art of the possible, we are launching the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI). This community of multi-disciplinary researchers is working together to accelerate cutting-edge research and transformative innovation in climate science and technology. MCRI enables us to bring

June 28, 2022 Python

Building a Site Connectivity Checker

Building a site connectivity checker in Python is an interesting project to level up your skills. With this project, you’ll integrate knowledge related to handling HTTP requests, creating command-line interfaces (CLI), and organizing your application’s code using common Python project layout practices. By building this project, you’ll learn how Python’s asynchronous features can help you deal with multiple HTTP requests efficiently. In this video course, you’ll learn how to: Create command-line interfaces (CLI) using Python’s argparse Check if a website […]

June 27, 2022 Python

Build a Tic-Tac-Toe Game With Python and Tkinter

Playing computer games is a great way to unwind or challenge yourself. Some people even do it professionally. It’s also fun and educational to build your own computer games. In this tutorial, you’ll build a classic tic-tac-toe game using Python and Tkinter. With this project, you’ll go through the thought processes required for creating your own game. You’ll also learn how to integrate your diverse programming skills and knowledge to develop a functional and fun computer game. In this tutorial, […]

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