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The NLP Cypher | 08_22_21
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Way back in February of 2020, someone Twitter posted they had FOIA’d the NSA aka National Security Agency. This actor, by the name ‘cupcake’ was able to retrieve a 400-page printout of their COMP 3321 training course (😂). It was OCR’d and uploaded to the cloud totaling 118MB of absolute FOIA madness of Python learning material courtesy of the Men in Black by the way of Fort Meade. Enjoy!
Terminal
Don’t click on this 👇 and definitely don’t type “help” and press “enter”.
Windows 96 Bruh!
Want access your favorite OS of all time: Windows 96??
Graph Research
A graph neural network paper list for real-world applications.
How to Hack APIs in 2021
Best way to learn about securing the modern day API is to first learn how hackers crack them.
Papers to Read 📚
This was the BIG paper released this week on what they term ‘Foundation Models’ 🥶
Bored Humans | 50 AI Demos to Play With
Build Your Own Transformer with JAX
Few-Shot Question Answering with Splinter 😎
You can find it in HuggingFace’s Model Hub
Hackers Code in Morse Code
“Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including relying on Morse code, in an attempt to cover their tracks and surreptitiously harvest user credentials.”
Repo Cypher 👨💻
A collection of recently released repos that caught our 👁
Mr. TyDi | Multi-Lingual Benchmark Dataset
A multi-lingual benchmark dataset for mono-lingual retrieval in eleven typologically diverse languages, designed to evaluate ranking with learned dense representations.
FewVulneratibility
A system that leverages pretrained language model (PLM) to identify vulnerable software names and version in the public vulnerability reports.
ROSITA
Vision and Language Pretraining method via a structural knowledge masking (SKM) strategy.
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