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A fourth “Matrix” movie is in the works at Warner Bros., with Keanu Reeves reprising his role as Neo and with the film's co-creator, Lana Wachowski, also on board.

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I've blogged about ServiceStack before. It's an extraordinary open source project - an ecosystem of its own even - that ...

This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP. It highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.

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If you like classic science fiction, one of the genre’s best magazines can now be found online for free. Archive.org is now home to a collection of Galaxy Science Fiction, which published some of...

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