About a month ago, I decided to take the plunge into learning how to fine tune a language generation model. One use-case of language generation that I found particularly compelling was abstractive document summarization. A lot of the papers currently available that deal with abstractive summarization and transformers work by truncating the input text to…
Author: jbetker
Learning to Learn: My Second Foray Into Machine Learning
My desire to understand how the mind works started when I was choosing what I wanted to do in college, in 2000. Back then I was a nerdy kid who was pretty good with computers, but who had grown an insatiable interest for figuring out how the mind ticked. Not knowing a whole lot about…