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Edwin Chen's Blog
1y ago
This is a crosspost from the official Surge AI blog.
For background on this blog post...
I used to work at Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. One of the problems I big worked on: what was the right objective function to align our AI systems towards?
Optimizing for watch time at ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
2y ago
(This is a crosspost from the official Surge AI blog.
For background on this blog post...
I used to work at Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. One of the problems I big worked on: what was the right objective function to align our AI systems towards?
Optimizing for watch time at ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
2y ago
I built a visualization to explore embeddings a few years ago, but never posted it more broadly. So here it is! http://blog.echen.me/embedding-explorer/
These are GloVe embeddings projected into 2D, colorized via k-means in the original space.
You can see, for example, that the cluster in pink ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
2y ago
(This is a crosspost from the official Surge AI blog, where we're building the greatest source of NLP content. If you need help with data labeling and NLP, say hello!)
Introduction
Imagine you're a Harvard professor teaching English 101. You’re tired of grading homework and want to get back ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
2y ago
(This is a crosspost from the official Surge AI blog, where we're building the greatest source of NLP content. If you need help with data labeling and NLP, say hello!)
Introduction
New, state-of-the-art language models like DeepMind’s Gopher, Microsoft’s Megatron, and OpenAI’s GPT-3 are driving a wave ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
2y ago
(This is a crosspost from the official Surge AI blog, where we're building the greatest source of NLP content. If you need help with data labeling and NLP, say hello!)
Introduction
Language models are a core component of NLP systems, from machine translation to speech recognition. Intuitively, you can think ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
2y ago
tl;dr I started Surge AI to fix the problems I've always encountered with getting high-quality, human-labeled data at scale. Think MTurk 2.0—but with an obsessive focus on quality and speed, and an elite workforce you can trust. If you've ever had problems getting human-annotated data, or wish ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
3y ago
(This is a post from the Twitter Engineering Blog that I wrote with Alpa Jain.)
One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and just seconds later, it’s shared for people across the planet to see ..read more
Edwin Chen's Blog
3y ago
tl;dr I started Surge earlier this year to fix the problems I've always encountered with getting high-quality, human-labeled data at scale. Think MTurk 2.0—but with an obsessive focus on quality and speed, and an elite workforce you can trust. If you've ever had problems getting human-annotated data ..read more