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After finishing Probability and Statistics by Stanford Online, I wanted to improve my knowledge of statistics further. The logical choice was to take Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data MITx (6.

For seqviz and INCEpTION external recommender, I recently had the problems that I needed to use BERT for sequence tagging but needed to predict labels for my own tokens. The problem is that transformers typically use subword tokenization like WordPiece or Sentence piece.

I recently got interested in economics and finance. A post on Hacker News was recommending to take Economics of Money and Banking on Coursera as an introduction. I really enjoyed the course and will give a brief review of it here.

In order to brush up my math skills, I started the Probability and Statistics by Stanford Online. I found it via the Free online machine learning curriculum by Chip Hyuen. If you do not know her, make sure to read her blog and books!

Introduction In October, I participated together with a friend in the 2019 International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired Computing organized by Tsinghua University. The task was to develop an AI system

Over the years, I heard a lot about Game Jams, online competitions in which you need to develop a game from scratch including assets in a limited time frame, often a weekend.

My current NLP research is about Entity Linking, that is disamiguating a mention, e.g. Obama with regard to a knowledge base. When using Wikidata for that, it would be linked to Q76.

For over three years now, I learn Mandarin after lectures or after work. To stay motivated, I take the HSK Chinese proficiency exams. In November, I took HSK 4. While

Last Monday, I was visiting a friend in Kunming. She lives in the north of Kunming and I near the city centre. Therefore we normally meet up at TongDe Plaza

Last Saturday, we attended a tea ceremony in a private tea house. Normally, only manager or other white-collar workers book sessions there. Very few foreigners have visited it. The story