January 2021

This long-overdue blog post is based on the Commonsense Tutorial taught by Maarten Sap, Antoine Bosselut, Yejin Choi, Dan Roth, and myself at ACL 2020. Credit for much of the content goes to the co-instructors, but any errors are mine.  In the last 5 years, popular media has made it seem that AI is nearly—if not already—solved by deep learning, with reports on super-human performance on speech recognition, image captioning, and object recognition. The release of Google Translate’s […]

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Over the Christmas holidays I finally managed to finish one of my 2020 lockdown projects. After reading the (excellent) book by Tim Marshall, “Prisoners of Geography”, I discovered three important facts: Tim Marshall is an amazing author. I have been much more ignorant about the global geopolitics than I thought. To build a solid and lost-lasting understanding of geopolitics I need to re-read most of the chapters, explore some topics on my own and take thorough notes. So…those […]

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