Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 6

 13.05.2020 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, May 13, 2020 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the meetup! Check the patreon page to join the current list: Tomas Thornquist Programme: Pranav A - 2kenize: Tying Subword Sequences for Chinese Script Conversion Pranav A will be presenting his recently accepted ACL 2020 paper (co-authored with Isabelle Augenstein).

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 5

 29.04.2020 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, April 29, 2020 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the meetup! Check the patreon page to join the current list: Tomas Thornquist Programme: Robert Milan Porsch (Data Scientist at Apoidea) - Numeracy understanding in language models

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 4

 08.04.2020 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, April 8, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Since this online meetup was a first, I presented some of my research work to test the setting. Programme: Gautier Marti - My recent attempts at using GANs for simulating realistic stocks returns Abstract I will share my experience on using GANs for generating something else than natural images, in that case correlation matrices of stocks.

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 3

 22.01.2020 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, January 20, 2020 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Credit Suisse, ICC 88/F, West Kowloon, Hong Kong This meetup was hosted at Credit Suisse which also offered pizzas and drinks! Thanks to them, and in particular to David Zucker for kindly proposing the venue and arranging everything, and Eric Vergnaud for an original and lively introduction of Credit Suisse as the host. Programme: Note that, as usual, errors and approximations in the summaries below are mine.

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 2

 17.10.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Thursday, October 17, 2019 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Entrepreneur First, Campfire Lounge 5/F, 42 Wong Chuk Hang Rd, Aberdeen, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Entrepreneur First - Hong Kong which offered the location. Thanks to them, and in particular to Esther Luong. Thanks also to Alan Kwan, Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong, for putting me in touch with Yandex engineers.

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 1

 25.09.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, September 25, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Prime Insight, 3 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Prime Insight which offered the location, drinks and snacks. Thanks to them, and in particular to Romain Haimez and Matthieu Pirouelle. Programme: Note that, as usual, errors and approximations in the summaries below are mine. Thibault Bourgeron, Quantitative Researcher at Shell Street Labs - Dynamic Time Warping and Support Vector Machines for Time Structured Data

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