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New blog post: introduction to gradient-based optimization with constraints: reparametrization, projected gradient, cool connections in between. 🔮Geometry insights show that 🪞mirror descent = reparametrization with a "straight-through" sigmoid! vene.ro/blog/mirror-de…

Looking forward to AthNLP 2024! Thanks to the fantastic speakers who will join us: @anas_ant @raquel_dmg @fhuszar @MKrallinger Mirella Lapata Ryan McDonald @aidanematzadeh @vnfrombucharest @barbara_plank @annargrs ! Deadline for applications 20th of June! athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html

📢 I will be at @eaclmeeting next week presenting our work “On Measuring Context Utilization in Document-Level MT Systems” arxiv.org/abs/2402.01404 We propose an interpretable approach to evaluating context utilization by answering two questions: (1/4)

The Chat Shared Task (WMT2024) is live! 💥💥 Happy to announce this year’s Chat Shared Task which aims to translate a corpus composed of genuine bilingual conversations from the customer support domain!

I have 2 openings for my VIDI project on modeling low-res morphologically rich languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights! @GroNlp @univgroningen 📢 a Postdoc (apply by 15 Feb) rug.nl/about-ug/work-… 📢 a PhD (apply by 11 Mar) rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

Funding call! Utter project he-utter.eu has launched a call for small grants (up to €60k each) for European Univs. and SMEs working on multimodal technology and applications. Closes in October. See #events" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">he-utter.eu/#events , FSTP (financial support for third parties)

Studie in @nejm toont aan dat bescherming tegen herinfectie met eerdere omikron infectie snel daalt. Dit haalt het argument onderuit dat nu de meeste kinderen zijn geïnfecteerd, ze niet hoeven te worden gevaccineerd. 3 doses van het vaccin zijn nodig @rivm @ministerVWS @MinVWS

This is NOT an extraordinary decision, @SwitterSocial was removed without notice or a blog post. Do not let @eastdakota convince you otherwise.

my laptop is fully closed and it still made the notification sound specific to work emails. i must’ve done something truly heinous in my past life fr

Someone once told me I'm "not working class" because I'm disabled (by my chosen career of serving) and I don't work anymore? Like becoming disabled by my job suddenly rendered me "out of touch" with workers and working? I got "I'm disabled too and I work" which....yikes?

I am hiring a PhD candidate in ML for NLP to work on deep generative models of language. Fully funded 4-year position at the University of Amsterdam, Language Technology Lab. Apply by August 21. Details and link to call at vene.ro/jobs.html

i do not think we should purée humanity into a gel that could fit in central park, this is too far for me