Terrence Szymanski

Pythonic data scientist and computational linguist. Words, words, words.

[Terrence Szymanski @affrication]

Save the date! Friday 26 August, 4-7pm, the Melbourne NLP Meetup will be hosted at SEEK HQ in Cremorne! Come and join us, and hear about how we do NLP at SEEK! https://t.co/3AYXUbrG1k

[Australasian Document Computing Symposium @AusDocCompSymp]

We're wrapping up #ADCS2021 this Thursday with a great keynote by @affrication from @seekjobs

Are you going to miss it?

https://t.co/HVFxzqRWrA

📝 Register for free here: https://t.co/wZkJYAulOl

📔 #ADCS2021 Proceedings: https://t.co/45ley7G1dB

[Terrence Szymanski @affrication]

One of my favourite economists on one of my favourite podcasts, on one of my un-favourite subjects.

[Cardiff Garcia @CardiffGarcia]

ICYMI yesterday, our conversation with economist @robgillezeau on research showing that police unionizing led to an increase in police killings of civilians, with nearly the entire effect in non-white (overwhelmingly African-American) civilian deaths. https://t.co/dzGhIhLc7j

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@DataScienceMelb

[State Library Vic @Library_Vic]

A colourful breakdown of the various ways characters come to a sticky end in Shakespeare’s plays. https://t.co/OSCHlmuBmJ via @openculture

[git commit -m @git_commit_m]

"Don't remember; hope it's something useful!"

[Terrence Szymanski @affrication]

Agile data science according to @_fflores : be lazy. Do the least amount of work necessary, and evolve products weekly. @DataScienceMelb

[Terrence Szymanski @affrication]

Great range of talks from The Future of Art by @minxdragon to Spark ML by @holdenkarau, to Knitting as a Programming Language @web_goddess at #VoxxedDaysMelbourne

[Magic Realism Bot @MagicRealismBot]

A spider made of moustaches is born in Detroit.

[Ren'Py Tom 🇺🇸 250 @renpytom]

This is mostly true. The thing about programming is there's a very short amount of time between knowing how to do something, and it being done. And you do it once and it's over, and you move on to the next thing you don't know how to do. https://t.co/NHdzlpC1vZ

[Smerity @Smerity]

Staring at these sentences generated by my neural machine translation model, it's odd knowing I can teach a computer to do something I can't

[Terrence Szymanski @affrication]

Simply the best application of GANs -- #horse2zebra #DeepLearning https://t.co/cVKtBymfeA

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@AdamCSchembri 👏

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Tfw Poland disappears https://t.co/1o83D82Lu3

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@phoxis Does that company also sell gin-scented breath mints?

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@LisaNMichaud Code is prose, not poetry. Should be easy to read and unambiguous.

[Terrence Szymanski @affrication]

@lousylinguist Phonology is just a game linguists play with each other. And DL is demonstrably good at playing games

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

i call this one "arrival"

(with thanks to @antigonized!)