https://ai.facebook.com/blog/textless-nlp-generating-expressive-speech-from-raw-audio Textless NLP: Generating expressive speech from raw audioSeptember 9, 2021 “GSLM leverages recent breakthroughs in representation learning, allowing it to work directly from only raw audio signals… for potentially
What I Read: Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better
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What I Read: Scale Real-time Data Infrastructure
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What I Read: Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-build-ai-that-builds-ai-20220125/ Researchers Build AI That Builds AIAnil AnanthaswamyJanuary 25, 2022“By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.”
What I Read: Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite Work
https://nickch-k.github.io/SomeThoughts/posts/2022-01-23-overdebunked/ Overdebunked! Six Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite WorkWhen healthy skepticism of statistics turns into worse statistics (and an excuse).Nick Huntington-KleinJan. 23, 2022 “Skepticism about statistics is good. However, just
What I Read: Experiment without the wait
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/experiment-without-the-wait-speeding-up-the-iteration-cycle-with-offline-replay-experimentation-7a4a95fa674b Pinterest EngineeringJan 18Experiment without the wait: Speeding up the iteration cycle with Offline Replay ExperimentationMaxine Qian | Data Scientist, Experimentation and Metric Sciences“Online experimentation is often used to evaluate
What I Read: Visual Explanation of Classifiers
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/introducing-stylex-new-approach-for.html Introducing StylEx: A New Approach for Visual Explanation of ClassifiersTuesday, January 18, 2022Posted by Oran Lang and Inbar Mosseri, Software Engineers, Google Research“Previous approaches for visual explanations of classifiers…