A collaboration between Microsoft Research Asia and Duke University has produced a machine learning system capable of generating video solely from a text prompt, without the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The project is titled GODIVA (Gene... (more…)

The business world is full of streams of items that need to be filtered or evaluated: parts on an assembly line, resumés in an application pile, emails in a delivery queue, transactions awaiting processing. Machine learning techniques are increasingly bei... (more…)

In the first year of my PhD, I started trauma recovery therapy to heal from domestic violence. It mostly consisted of something called “reprocessing sessions''; using a technique called EMDR we would revisit traumatic memories in my life, and try to figur... (more…)

Between 2015 and 2020 I have participated in Quantopian and Numerai tournaments. Being involved in these tournaments has led me to a very profitable journey: I made around $350k during these years… (more…)

Machine Learning is, put simply, getting computers to generalize from examples. And that's what I try to do: put things simply. My posts on Machine Learning (ML) consist primarily of beginner-focused introductions to common ML models or concepts, and I st... (more…)