I attended NAACL-HLT 2018 in New Orleans last week. I didn’t manage to catch as many talks and posters this time around (there were just too many inspiring people to talk to!), so my highlights and the trends I observed mainly focus on invited talks and workshops.

Hello Stitch Fix followers, check out where our fellow Stitch Fixers are speaking in the month of June.

R Tip: use isTRUE().

Judging by the first few minutes of Annihilation, I thought the sci-fi film seemed very derivative of 2016’s amazing Arrival. Both movies had the same muted color scheme and dreamlike direction. Both movies featured a grieving female professor as its lead character. In Annihilation, Natalie Portman stars as biology professor Lena, whose soldier husband Kane mysteriously arrives back home after being gone for a year from a mission and assumed KIA.

Rafael Irizarry ** 2018/06/10

In this article I will give step-by-step instructions for reproducing the experiments in the World Models article (pdf). The reference TensorFlow implementation is on GitHub.

Let’s segue a bit from the main focus of the blog (which if you don’t know is data science applied to entertainment) to focus on something closer to home – data science on the Philippine government.

Rafael Irizarry ** 2018/06/08