Daily Archives: December 9, 2020
Text Preprocessing with NLTK
A detailed walkthrough of preprocessing a sample corpus with the NLTK library using stemming and lemmatization. Read More
Learn NLP the Stanford Way — Lesson 2
Second in an n-part series. Deep dive into Word2vec, GloVe, and word senses. Read More
Learn NLP the Stanford way — Lesson 1
The AI area of Natural Language Processing, or NLP, throughout its gigantic language models — yes, GPT-3, I’m watching you — presents what it’s perceived as a revolution in machines’ capabilities to perform the most distinct language tasks.
Due to that, the perception of the public as a whole is split: some perceive that these new language models are going to pave the way to a Skynet type of technology, while others dismiss them as hype-fueled technologies that will live in dusty shelves, or HDD drives, in little to no time.
Motivated by this, this series of storiesapproaches NLP from scratch in a friendly way. Read More
AutoX becomes China’s first to remove safety drivers from robotaxis
Residents of Shenzhen will see truly driverless cars on the road starting Thursday. AutoX, a four-year-old startup backed by Alibaba, MediaTek and Shanghai Motors, is deploying a fleet of 25 unmanned vehicles in downtown Shenzhen, marking the first time any autonomous driving car in China tests on public roads without safety drivers or remote operators.
The cars, meant as robotaxis, are not yet open to the public, an AutoX spokesperson told TechCrunch. Read More