James Barry
@jamesarbarry
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Research Scientist @ IBM Research | PhD from ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
Joined March 2017
If any Irish speakers are interested in helping annotate some of the BLEnD examples to Irish, please let me know (can be as little as a few examples). We aim to have Irish included in the next release.
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IBM Research Europe (UK) are looking for interns in generative AI in sustainability: reasoning over multimodal data, foundations models in the climate/materials domain, and exploring agentic systems. Please consider applying here:
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Had a great time presenting our Demo Paper, KnowledgeHub: An End-to-End Tool for Assisted Scientific Discovery at IJCAI 2024 in Jeju Island, Korea today!
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With #Nvidia stock rallying, competitors are no doubt trying to capture back some of that market share. Realistically how big are Nvidia's hardware/software moats - how likely is wider spread adoption of:. - AMD/ROCm.- Intel/Habana.- Apple/MLX.- Tesla/Dojo?.
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Circulating to anyone interested in working with Celtic Languages!.
The Irish language section might be of interest to either @jamesarbarry or @emmacarrigan! (I am not nearly confident enough in my fluency to try).
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If anyone is interested in learning about the Common Lisp Object System (classes and object-oriented programing in #Lisp), I wrote a blog post about it here, using the example of scoring a game of bowling:.
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The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) was developed to create an object-oriented extension for the Common Lisp language. CLOS became the first ANSI standardised object-oriented language. CLOS enables...
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I'm going through Michael Collins' 2013 Columbia NLP course that was on Coursera. Here is an implementation of a trigram UD POS tagger using the Viterbi Algorithm as described in the Chapter 2 notes:
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Implementation of the Viterbi Algorithm as described in Michael Collins' Coursera NLP course. - jbrry/HMM-Tagger-Viterbi
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RT @ai2_allennlp: 🎉Dataset Release 🎉. We reproduced and are releasing the mined bitext training data for @Meta @MetaAI's No Language Left B….
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I want to say a big thank you to @barbara_plank and @tarfandy for being on my PhD Examination Committee. I was so fortunate to have such knowledgeable examiners to be able to discuss my research with! And of course a huge thanks to my supervisors @fosterjendublin & @Wjrgo!.
Congratulations on successfully defending your PhD thesis today @jamesarbarry.
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RT @mdlhx: I am hiring a #NLProc PhD student working on multilingual NLP, based @CW_KULeuven. Info and application link: .
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RT @cigilt: Come visit our poster on gaBERT - an Irish Language Model .#LREC2022 @lrec2022 .@jamesarbarry @aneihe @laurenNiChasaid
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I'll still be around to defend my viva and will be at LREC next week so looking forward to catching up with people soon!.
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Cleaned my desk for the first and last time today as I've just submitted my thesis. Got a bit nostalgic packing things like my HDMI cable that I used to share my screen for in-person meetings before Zoom was a thing :D. Gonna miss DCU a lot.
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Want to help out with @BigscienceW? @in4dmatics mentions a few ways to get involved!. Also lots of cool work on prompting and parameter efficient tuning with the T0 and new T-Few models as presented by @SanhEstPasMoi @colinraffel
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Great to have @morgymcg drop by today to host an event with @weights_biases! Super fun and informative event. Thanks to everyone who came along!.
Good craic with the post-grads at @dcucomputing today chatting @weights_biases - pizza and training models, what more could you want 😃. Huge thanks to @jamesarbarry for organising the gang!
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RT @morgymcg: Looking forward to hanging out with @jamesarbarry and the crew at the @AdaptCentre at DCU, Dublin to chat about how to iterat….
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@morgymcg @AdaptCentre, @DREAL_ie, @insight_centre, @ml_labs_irl, this may be of interest to students/researchers!.
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