thilinarajapakse / low-resource-language-models

☕ I'm Thilina and I turn coffee into code ☕

• 🤖 Obsessed with everything tech
• 💡 Creator of the Simple Transformers library
• 🔎 Learning and doing research in Natural Language Processing
• 📝 Writing about NLP and Simple Transformers on Medium
• 💼 Consulting and Freelancing
• 💯 Iron Man is the best Avenger

Interests-Obsessions-Goals-Dreams-Stuff

• 🛡️ Fighting pseudoscience and misinformation.
• 🔬 Better education for everyone. Not everyone learns the same way.
• 💚 Mental health awareness. I am ADHD.
• 🐉 Reading fantasy. Watching Science-Fiction.
• ⚽ Liverpool FC. You'll never walk alone.

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📕 Latest Medium Posts

• Finding the Needle in the Haystack: How To Use the Dense Passage Retriever
• A Quick Overview of NVIDIA Jarvis — An End-to-End Framework for Conversational AI
• How to Train an mT5 Model for Translation With Simple Transformers
• Going Global —How to Multi-Task in Multiple Languages with the mT5 Transformer
• Divide and Conquer — How to Deal With Complex Datasets

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