December 2023

In 2023-2024, open source is indeed the heartbeat of the technology industry. Here are just a few examples. Linux, initially a side project by Linus Torvalds, is now the foundation for much of the internet, powering most web servers, supercomputers, and Android devices. Similarly, the Apache HTTP Server set the pace in web services, just as Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Firefox disrupted Internet Explorer’s once-unchallenged reign. Not to mention Android, which redefined the smartphone market with Google’s backing. […]

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NeurIPS 2023, arguably this year’s biggest AI conference takes place in two weeks from Dec 10–16 in New Orleans. 3586 papers were accepted to the conference, which are available online. In this post, I’ll discuss a selection of 20 papers related to natural language processing (NLP) that caught my eye, with a focus on oral and spotlight papers. Here are the main trends I observed: Most NLP work at NeurIPS is related to large language models (LLMs). While there are some papers […]

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