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NLP Research Engineer @Microsoft , , Ex-BIU NLP. Enthusiast of all things AI/ML, History & Israeli Tech and Democracy. Opinions are my own.

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Ari Bornstein🎗️
3 years
A great primer on Graph Neural Networks using @PyTorchLightnin from @phillip_lippe from his fall course @UvA_Amsterdam . Looking forward to going over the rest of the course looks really promissing.
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Excited to announce to my friends and the community that I’ll be starting as Microsoft’s first @azureadvocates in Israel. This position offers a unique opportunity to advocate on behalf of the thriving Israeli Tech ecosystems.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@unwomenchief How about calling for the immediate release of all Israeli civilian hostages including women, children and elderly?
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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It's pretty awesome how easily the 1.2 release of @PyTorchLightnin enables you to iteratively apply the lottery ticket hypothesis to your #PyTorch models. Created with @carbon_app
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Super excited about the @onnxruntime integration with @huggingface transformer! The #NLProc goodness just keeps on coming this week!
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Today is my last day at #Microsoft after 7 transformative years! As I transition to the next chapter (more on that next week), I want to share my learnings and say thanks to everyone I had the chance to learn from and work with during this journey.
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@shashj @potkazar In that case as an Israeli I unequivocally condemn any call for ethnic cleansing of any population. That should be common sense.
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I'm joining @gridai_ as Head of Developer Advocacy! Look forward to having the chance to bring new value to the AI/ML and @PyTorchLightnin community. Read more about it here:
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The @PyTorchLightnin team just put out a new post on how to get started with active learning using Flash and BaaL to train your models more accurately with less data. Check it out!
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Nice to see @PyTorchLightnin in the @weights_biases documentation.
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Also has a nice integration with @PyTorchLightnin ’s progress bar
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Rich a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal! Rich can also render pretty tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax highlighted source code, tracebacks, and more — out of the box. @willmcgugan
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⚡Excited to share that @PyTorchLightnin Flash now supports Finetuning and Prediction of Semantic Segmentation with built-in @kornia_foss Transform Support and Visualization Callbacks for debugging.⚡
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People often ask me how to optimize @PyTorch code for optimizing edge deployment. This is one of the most honest primers I've seen on the subject. Check out the first post in @ThomasViehmann 's new series to learn more.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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While everyone is going nuts over stable diffusion demos on Spaces. This @huggingface space of QA Sem that provides a comprehensive semi-structured representation of sentence meaning is one of the most underrated spaces I've seen in a long time.
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@UNRWA @UN @UNOCHA @ochaopt @UNICEFpalestine @UN_News_Centre @amra_ashraf Nothing short of demilitarization of Gaza will stop the violence. Will you call on the immediate release of hostages to the international Red Cross and demilitarization of Gaza to provide a better life for Palestinians and Israelis
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Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians
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@OzKaterji No respectable voice in Israel is calling for ethnic cleansing of Gaza only for the unconditional surrender of Hamas and the return of our hostages. The two are not the same.
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@OzKaterji Thank you @OzKaterji for true integrity here
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Loving the new @PyTorchLightnin Flash documentation with integrated examples for over 14+ Deep Learning Tasks and Thousands of backbones from Audio Classification to Point Cloud Embedding. Check it out
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Almost official!!!!
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PyTorch Lightning trick of the day you can start up TensorBoard and track your metrics in Real-Time directly from a Jupyter/Collab notebook. Check out a full example in the link below. #PyTorch #JupyterNotebooks @PyTorchLightnin
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Team dinner @azureadvocates
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@Haytham_MG Talk about one sided narratives there is much larger movement calling for peace and coexistence within Israeli society for over 75 years but we don’t see many partners from across the aisle which leads to this voice being constantly undermined by all sides
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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⚡️📣Excited to announce that @PyTorchLightnin Flash supports FineTuning of the new @facebookai Dino self-supervised backbones for Computer Vision Tasks.⚡️ Docs: Repo: Dino Repo:
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Mike Schroepfer
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Here’s our new computer vision system achieving state of the art results in image segmentation, without needing any labeled training data. This new model was trained on random, unlabeled data, but quickly achieved state-of-the-art results. It’s awesome.
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Since the post on DevOps resources was well received, I was asked to provide a list of recommended resources for Machine Learning on Azure. I will make an effort to keep this list updated new developments emerge. @azureadvocates @machinelearnflx
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@itamarbengvir ההתנהגות שלך מסכנת את המדינה. ת ת פ ט ר
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@OzKaterji Agreed and pressure should be placed on Hamas by Qatar to designate civilian sections of Gaza where they will not fire from to protect its citizens. If they do that countless Palestinian lives will be saved as Israel is not explicitly targeting civilians.
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Some pretty amazing community projects are using #PyTorchLightning to take #PyTorch to the next level. Here are 4 of my favorite Audio projects. @NVIDIAAI , @teddykoker , @mnlpariente @MULTITEL_TECH and @PyTorchLightnin .
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@emilymbender Can you also sign this letter from @yoavgo ? Many members of the #NLProc community are feeling unsafe and unsupported from the lack of moral clarity of ACL leadership on this subject.
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Hello colleagues and fellows. Over the past few days I was shocked to learn that people in our community don't share what I consider to be basic human values. Please help me restore faith in our community by signing this.
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Recently I was asked to put some devops resources together wanted to share my list with broader community. @azureadvocates #LoECDA
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@Tenenti Why are there reports on the ground that you are abandoning posts?
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Congrats to @huggingface on the series C
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Amazing lunch with the colleagues in Japan
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ちょまど@ ITエンジニア
4 years
Thanks for the lunch today! 今日は会社 (マイクロソフト) の 同僚の人たちと一緒に ランチ食べたよ☺️💕
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@CarolineGlick You would have much more credibility if you would openly condemn this behavior. Instead you actively choose to pour fuel on the fire
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@saribashi @OzKaterji @NewYorker I wholeheartedly agree luckily Israel is not targeting civilians if it were there would be no civilians left in Gaza. Instead Israel is targeting Hamas who is still firing from civilian centers which Sari does not condemn in her interview.
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Drone footage of Hamas firing rockets from a residential area in Gaza. The Israeli Air Force quickly struck the launch site
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These seem to be in vouge so inspired by the incredible @DynamicWebPaige here is a visualization tribute to all the contributors to the @PyTorchLightnin !
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Had an amazing time sharing production ML best practices at the @__MLT__ meetup at #AzureBaseDKY was great meeting everyone and look forward to keeping touch!
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. @pythiccoder talking #Azure Machine Learning Best Practices! at ML TOKYO TALKS #AzureBaseDKY
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@KenRoth Why is Hamas firing on Tel Aviv from their locations
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Wrote a new notebook with a bunch of self contained getting started demos for my favorite NLP Tools of 2019 keep an eye out a post is coming soon @ML_NLP @azureadvocates
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@shashj @potkazar No respectable voice in Israel is calling for ethnic cleansing of Gaza only for the unconditional surrender of Hamas and the return of our hostages. The two are not the same.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@HilzFuld @shlomostark123 Please don't tweet about troop movements.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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When NLP goes wrong
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I had no idea thank you @Google
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⚡⚡⚡Really excited to announce that @PyTorchLightnin Flash now supports fine-tuning UNet from bolts and DeeplabV3 and LRASPP from torchvision. backbones for Semantic Segmentation thanks to amazing work by @ethanwharris .⚡⚡⚡ Repo:
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Amazing turn out for the Github User Group Meetup at the @MSFTReactor Tel Aviv @azureadvocates
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Great post by @_willfalcon on how to leverage different accelorator frameworks with the @PyTorchLightnin platform.
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William Falcon ⚡️
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🚀 ⚡️ Deepspeed? FSDP? FFCV? XYZK? what do they all mean and how can you use all of them to speed up your model training? All amazing techniques developed by world-class teams and accessible via @PyTorchLightnin !
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Worth taking a look if you are doing production Deep Learning to double check whether changes in your tasks data distribution are impacting your models performance. Also really love the @PyTorchLightnin example notebook.
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Thomas Viehmann
3 years
We are very exited to introduce TorchDrift, our data and concept drift library for @PyTorch . It lets you monitor your PyTorch models to see if they operate within spec. Made with ❤️ by @orobix and MathInf. Tutorials and Documentation at
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Great post by @kweinmeister on how easy it is to start training models with @PyTorchLightnin on TPUs.
@GoogleCloudTech
Google Cloud Tech
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The Lightning framework is a great companion to PyTorch. The lightweight wrapper can help organize your PyTorch code into modules, and it provides useful functions for common tasks. See how easy it is to start training models with Lightning on TPUs ↓
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@OzKaterji @ellie_merton As someone who works with Israeli doctors for a living no they will not.
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A few years ago, Gaza received new water pipelines thanks to foreign aid. Hamas dug up the pipelines and turned them into rockets that they later fired at Israel
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Goodnight Tokyo #MSIgniteTour
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Excited to be representing @PyTorchLightnin at the @PyTorch Ecosystem Day on Wednesday! Look forward to showing how to reduce Deep Learning boilerplate with our latest features! Repo: Docs: Site:
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A developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up.
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Jared Palmer
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when your team gets assigned a "10x engineer"
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@mehdirhasan @JoyAnnReid You’ve gotten the answer to this a hundred times over and just choose to ignore it. Where is Hamas operating from? Where are the hostages being kept? Where are the rockets raining on Israel being fired from?
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@Iamwaqaskhan71 @mehdirhasan If that’s your response to the largest massacre of Jews since the holocaust that you refuse to condemn your compass is broken and so is your humanity
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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I noticed it didn't exist so I wrote a tutorial on how to train your first distributed @PyTorchLightnin Model using #AzureML for the @azureadvocates Medium Blog. Hope this helps others get more out of their deep learning experience!
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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The @azureadvocates #Israel and @MSFTReactor team is launching a CFP to showcase and amplify developer content from across the Israeli Developer, StartUp and Research ecosystem. Submit your proposals here!
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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New Microsoft Israel CDA office!
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Microsoft’s Create Series is coming to Tel Aviv on June 18! It’s time to build your next business using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the latest in cloud infrastructure services. Don’t miss out- Sign up now >>
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Danny Cohen’s name may not be familiar to many, but thanks to Cohen that we can make internet voice and video calls on platforms such as Skype, that we can watch YouTube videos or store data in the cloud.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@UN @UNRWA You are right you are not a target and you should not be. This is a target though
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@timnitGebru You are you aren’t even trying to hide it. On October 7th you saw with your own eyes what from the river to the sea meant, though you stayed silent. Here you’re using coded language to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide of Jews.
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@IfNotNowOrg What are you doing to resolve this conflict besides arm chair posturing?
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#Microsoft becomes the official maintainer of the #windows version of @PyTorch ! @azureadvocates
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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To celebrate the recent announcement of free private repos in github here's a sneak peak of a really cool project I’ve been working on for part two of the Making Petabyte Scale Data Actionable with ADX series. #github #azure #kusto @azureadvocates
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@KenRoth Can you explain how Hamas is still firing to Tel Aviv it seems like they still haven’t hit all the targets if Hamas has this capability?
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Our #EMNLP2020 paper is out. TL;DR We present CoRefi, a web coreference annotation suite provides guided onboarding, novel algorithm for a reviewing phase. CoRefi is open source and embeds any website, including crowdsourcing platforms.
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@mervenoyann @serious_mehta Also try @PyTorchLightnin there are some really good getting started tutorials in the repo
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@jonjonmoorep No they mean genocide has a definition and targeting Hamas does not fulfill this definition.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Great time presenting at the @Glob_AIBootcamp in Amsterdam
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@timnitGebru Genocide has a definition and you devaluing when there are 6 active genocides occurring and your equating Hamas to the Palestinian people is disingenuous and disgraceful.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@timnitGebru There is also a name for people who spread blood libels and don’t issue corrections.
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Tomorrow's going to be an adventure we rented a #Ferrari
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Big milestone broke 500 medium followers in less the six months of writing looking forward to 52 new posts in 2019!
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@yoavgo Yoav you clearly haven’t been to Dimona 🤣
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First event at the @MSFTReactor Tel Aviv was smashing success!
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roeeaharoni
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Had a wonderful 12th Israeli NLP meetup yesterday! Thanks to our speakers @pythiccoder and @AlonTalmor for the great talks and @Microsoft for hosting us.
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#MSFT Open Sourced some of its best practices on pretraining and fine tuning #BERT on @Azure ML happy that I got a chance to contribute some of the pytorch code 🙂 @azureadvocates GitHub Repo: Blog Post
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New release of Kornia really awesome to play with network layer augmentations!
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Here are my favorite NLP toolkits, I wrote an article explaining what like to use each one for and a notebook so that you can start experimenting with them. @azureadvocates @AzureNotebooks #NLProc
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Really cool new project from @facebookai for tactile touch sensing powered by @PyTorchLightnin . Definitely worth a look. PL: Repo:
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Best team and best session lead ever @AmyKateNicho
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First olim in tech hackathon @devrel_il @azureadvocates
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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This is incorrect no one has lost a job for criticism of Israel people have lost their jobs for glorifying Hamas׳s atrocities the two are not the same.
@washingtonpost
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The Israel-Gaza war is still in its first week, but some people in the United States and around the world have lost their jobs, or have faced discipline or backlash, for their criticism of Israel.
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@blakeflayton They are trying to get on your shortlist for when you refer them to the landlord
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@OzKaterji Trust me Israelis don’t want war with Lebanon either we just want to live our lives in peace.
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I'm trying to use bert to compare the similarity of cross sentence sub spans. Does anyone know of code that allows me to convert from @spacy_io tokenizer indices to @huggingface pretrained Bert tokenizer indices? @Thom_Wolf @honnibal @SanhEstPasMoi
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@OzKaterji Agreed and pressure should be placed on Hamas by Qatar to designate civilian sections of Gaza where they will not fire from to protect its citizens. If they do that countless Palestinian lives will be saved.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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So proud to work with @ShmuelaJ who's coordinating this much needed and incredible initiative
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Shmuela Jacobs
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Last Wednesday we kicked off the @angular & @Azure course for Ultra-Orthodox women in tech with the @TechForum_ . I'm honored to be the teacher of 35 wonderful women of this community. Thanks @ArikNoyman For the great intro to #Cloud !! 🌤️😃 #InternationalWomensDay @MSFTReactor
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@Nguyentu21991 Stop spreading easily debunked propaganda it doesn’t help Palestinians or Israelis. Here is a more accurate and verifiable map of the conflict.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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@netanyahu אז תפטר אותו.
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Ari Bornstein🎗️
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Check out this really cool work coming from Microsoft Israel
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