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 inTDS ArchiveBuilding 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 inTDS Archive“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 inTDS ArchiveTranscribing 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
Final Forecast: Steady Projections Point To Clear Biden Win As Trump’s Re-Election Hopes FadeDespite the political drama in the home stretch of the US presidential election, two months-long forecasts have held surprisingly steady…Nov 3, 2020Nov 3, 2020
For Trump, No Comfort in Forecasts or Twitter in Final Stretch of 2020 US Presidential ElectionTrump’s down in the polls, and forecasts by experts point to a decisive loss on November 3. He doesn’t even seem to be doing as well on…Oct 22, 2020Oct 22, 2020
Forecasting the 2020 US Presidential Election With (FB) ProphetWith all eyes on the outcome of the Nov 3 vote, which metric, poll or forecaster can accurately predict the outcome of a highly volatile…Oct 3, 2020Oct 3, 2020
Published inTDS ArchiveDetecting State-backed Twitter Trolls With TransformersA practical use case on fine tuning a Distilbert model on a custom dataset, and testing its performance against more commonly used models…Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020
Published inTDS ArchiveLost In (Machine) TranslationSmall batch machine translation of speeches and news articles (English-to-Chinese and vice versa) in under-30 lines of code.Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020
Published inTDS ArchiveBeginner’s Guide To Building A Singlish AI ChatbotAI text generation is one of the most exciting fields in NLP, but also a daunting one for beginners. This post aims to speed up the…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020
Published inTDS ArchivePractical NLP: Summarising Short and Long Speeches With Hugging Face’s PipelineCompared to sentiment analysis or classification, text summarisation is a far less ubiquitous NLP task due to the time and resources…Jul 27, 2020Jul 27, 2020
GE 2020: The “Covid-Election” That Wasn’tResults from Singapore’s 2020 vote turned just about every pre-election prediction on its head. What happened? Here’s my post-mortem of…Jul 17, 2020Jul 17, 2020
GE 2020: A Visual PrimerPolitical calculations heading into Singapore’s upcoming polls have been disrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak. Will a ‘flight to safety”…Jul 9, 2020Jul 9, 2020
Published inTDS ArchiveSentiment Analysis Of Political Speeches Using Hugging Face’s Pipeline FeatureWho would you rather trust to assess political speeches — human pundits, or an algorithm? A test run on Covid-19 speeches in Singapore…Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020
