Notebook: Fun with Hidden Markov Models

Published: January 28, 2020

I’ve written a notebook introducing Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) with a PyTorch implementation of the forward algorithm, the Viterbi algorithm, and training a model on a text dataset—check it out here!

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What does Hegel mean by “Reason”?

Published: May 15, 2021

I finally finished reading the big and baffling Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

First PC build

Published: March 03, 2021

My everyday work computer is a MacBook Pro that I’ve had since 2013. It’s a great machine and continues to serve me well, but I was moved in a moment of pandemic malaise to treat myself to a little upgrade.

End-to-end models falling short on SLURP

Published: December 19, 2020

There’s a hot new dataset for spoken language understanding: SLURP. I’m excited about SLURP for a couple reasons:

Siri from scratch! (Not really.)

Published: December 11, 2020

I make fairly heavy use of the voice assistant on my phone for things like setting timers while cooking. As a result, when I spent some time this summer at my in-laws’ place—where there was no cell signal and not-very-good Wi-Fi—I often tried using Siri only to get a sad little “sorry, no Internet :(“ response. (#FirstWorldProblems.)

Loren Lugosch