Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 9

17.04.2019 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? TusParkHK Innovation Hub, 118 Wai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong This meetup was hosted by TusParkHK Innovation Hub. A few pictures taken at their Kwun Tong location. Thanks to Gary Ng and his deepteck community for the lead. Programme: Note that, as usual, errors and approximations in the summaries below are mine. Especially this time as my understanding of biology is unfortunately rather low.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 8

12.03.2019 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Tuesday, March 12, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters), ICBC Tower, 18/F, 3 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters) which offered the location, drinks and snacks. Thanks to them, and in particular to Alan Tam. Programme: Tan Li - Machine-Learning-based Market Crash Early Indicator and How TDA Can Boost the Performance at High Cut-offs

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 7

20.02.2019 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, February 20, 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: Marko Valentin Micic - Hyperbolic Deep Learning for Chinese Natural Language Understanding Recently hyperbolic geometry has proven to be effective in building embeddings that encode hierarchical and entailment information.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 6

23.01.2019 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, January 23, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Where? WeWork Taikoo Wan Rd 21/F, Cityplaza Three 14 Taikoo Wan Road, Taikoo Hong Kong Programme: Jules Leidelinger In his talk, Jules presented us the world of real-time bidding (RTB): advertisers compete in an auction by bidding for an advertising space made available by a publisher; the advertiser that wins the auction is allowed to publish its content (which is usually tailored to the user by leveraging browsing history data, etc.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 5

19.12.2018 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, December 19, 2018 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: Nathan Landman Nathan presented his graduate research work at MIT: Abstractive Summarization of Unstructured Text. As usual in these meetups, speakers stay away from the media hype to present the real state of the art, and Nathan was no exception.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 4

21.11.2018 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, November 21, 2018 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Where? WeWork Wan Chai 10F Mass Mutual Tower, 33 Lockhart Road Wanchai Hong Kong Programme: Simon Pavlik Simon did an introductory talk about deep learning techniques applied for natural language processing: CNNs, LSTMs, bi-LSTMs, CRF bi-LSTMs are networks often used to label sentences at the word, or even the character level. His presentation slides.