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Training a transformer to predict the gender of German nouns
Der, Die, or Das? German learners often complain about the nouns having unintuitive and arbitrary genders. How good can a transformer predict the article just by looking at the word? I compare the hardness of this machine learning task against the equivalent for Croatian and Catalan.
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My first paper - Exactly solving a routing problem in humanitarian logistics
As part of a university project, I worked on exact optimization methods for the Selective Assessment Routing Problem, a novel post-disaster optimization problem in the domain of Humanitarian Logistics.
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Heuristic vs Exact Optimization
I'll tell you about two of my favorite projects during my Master. It's nice to present them together because they do the same (combinatorial opti) but with different techniques - heuristics vs exact methods.
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I built an app to learn German (and then I didn't use it)
This is the story of me thinking that building a vocabulary memorization app was the ultimate thing I needed for learning German. And then I just used it for a week.