PinnedFight fire with fire? Building and testing a custom AI-powered fact checkerThe idea that LLMs can be used to assist with fact checking seems counter-intuitive. But test results from my recent trial suggests that an…Jan 17, 20243Jan 17, 20243
PinnedReimagining La Jetée with Dall.E 3The French time travel sci-fi classic presents an interesting way for experimenting with Dall.E 3 as a storyboarding toolOct 15, 2023Oct 15, 2023
PE 2023: (Short-form) Attention is all you need?Short-form videos featured heavily in the social media quest for eyeballs and attention during the 2023 Presidential Election in Singapore…Sep 4, 2023Sep 4, 2023
AI Vs AI: Detecting LLM-Generated TextThe rapid adoption of LLM tools for everyday writing has raised many questions, the chief of which is whether you can reliably spot…Jun 22, 2023Jun 22, 2023
Using ChatGPT For News Coverage: An Experiment With Budget 2023ChatGPT has made the news. But is it any good for news-related work? I test it out during one of the biggest news events of the year in…Feb 17, 2023Feb 17, 2023
Published inTowards Data ScienceBuilding NLP Web Apps With Gradio And Hugging Face TransformersA web app is essential for demonstrating your NLP/ML solution to colleagues and clients. But building and deploying one can be a nightmare…Aug 11, 2021Aug 11, 2021
Viral Mystery: Analysing Singapore’s 271 ‘Breakthrough’ Covid-19 CasesVisual/data analysis of 271 people in Singapore who tested positive for Covid-19 despite having one or two shots of the vaccine. This is…Jul 18, 20211Jul 18, 20211
Published inTowards Data Science“Chain-linking” NLP tasks With Wav2Vec2 & TransformersGoing straight from audio to a range of text-based NLP tasks such as translation, summarisation and sentiment analysis.Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Published inTowards Data ScienceTranscribing Poetry And Speeches With Wav2Vec2Efficient transcription of audio files has been one of the major “missing links” in modern NLP — till now. Enter Hugging Face’s…Feb 26, 20211Feb 26, 20211
Quick Election Forensics: When Did Forecasts For 2020 White House Race Become Problematic?Forecasters correctly predicted that Joe Biden will win, but vastly underestimated the strength of support for Donald Trump. A quick…Nov 8, 2020Nov 8, 2020