Larry Hardesty

Blog editor at Amazon Science

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@MikeTanier, who are you working for this year? You're like the Ryan Fitzpatrick of football writers.

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@lpachter “The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. ... When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it! It's rather like getting tenure.” --Daniel Dennett

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I'm particularly pleased about today's Amazon Science article on the Amazon editors' picks of the 20 best science books of the year (so far) as two of the selections are by my old comrades @JSEllenberg and @stevenbjohnson.
https://t.co/cPMahPPRtW

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@zacharylipton After two decades of observing standard American punctuation for various MIT publications, I adopted punctuation (by default) outside quotation marks for the Amazon Science blog because it's just more logical.

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@lpachter @HerrGlucksfall Is it an American child?

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@vanessa_murdock Wow. You are playing a long game, @vanessa_murdock.

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I'm ashamed to be associated with this.

https://t.co/0dhYq5QNhT

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On the cusp of Super Bowl LV, we take a look at how Amazon scientists are contributing to the design of the @NFL's @NextGenStats, powered by AWS.
#AmazonScience #SBLV #BigGame
https://t.co/RpqTJLSfDx

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@omarsar0 Statistics.

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@AmazonScience @icmlconf @ProfInderjit

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One-shot TTS expression transfer. I'd never heard of householder flows before, but they seem pretty cool.

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Last week at @ieeeICASSP, Amazon scientists showed how to adapt a text-to-speech system to a new expressive style on the strength of just one one-second example. Read more: https://t.co/e3dvbfNWIC #AmazonScience #IEEE #ICASSP2020

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These conference-related interviews are becoming my favorite posts to do. I learn so much from them. #AmazonScience

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Alexa scientist Ariya Rastrow on the blurring boundaries between acoustic processing and language understanding. Read more, and learn about Amazon’s presence at @ieeeICASSP this year: https://t.co/EOHkL9nHdd #AmazonScience #ICASSP2020

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"One simple trick" enables a multisource localization system to improve performance by 15%. #AmazonScience

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At @ieeeICASSP, we’ll be presenting a new way to avoid the "permutation problem" that arises when an AI-powered microphone array tries to localize several sound sources at once, with a 15% improvement over the state of the art: https://t.co/9Ns0RK8dKd #AmazonScience #ICASSP2020

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I really enjoyed working on this article. Stefano gave me a new way to think about a lot of the AI topics that I've encountered -- and he answered my one big question about few-shot learning. #AmazonScience

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On the cusp of @iclr_conf, Stefano Soatto, Amazon AWS's director of applied science for AI applications, explains how the conference's subspecialty — learning representations — came to dominate mainstream AI. https://t.co/KOCuTEmApu #AmazonScience #ICLR2020 #AI

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An @iclr_conf paper by @rasoolfa @pratikac @smolix & Stefano Soatto presents a new approach to meta-reinforcement learning that lets robots adapt to new tasks quickly, reducing the need for costly interactions with the environment https://t.co/Rtxd34M45l #AmazonScience #ICLR2020

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Meet Inderjit Dhillon, one of the many Amazon Fellows helping us innovate through academic collaborations.

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An article on my research work at Amazon https://t.co/9je3prc4Xe #amazonscience

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The post includes a cool GIF that illustrates how graph neural networks work:

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New method for entity alignment yields 10% increase over state of the art in area under the precision-recall curve (PRAUC). #AmazonScience

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In a paper for @TheWebConf, Amazon researchers show how to merge two knowledge graphs, more accurately reconciling different names for the same entities. Read more: https://t.co/65CnMpnPn9 #AmazonScience #TheWebConf

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Cool ML approach to sharpening the results of Amazon's product discovery engine that essentially uses unlabeled data.

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When a customer looks for "waterproof shoes", does she want office wear or hiking boots? In an @ACM_CHIIR paper, Amazon researchers show that inferring customers' "context of use" could improve product discovery. Read more: https://t.co/CjvEovVRst #AmazonScience