- Lots of reading for an NLP-themed week (Stanford Workshop on AI and Knowledge was on Wednesday, and preparation for a big NLU project is ramping up). I’ve been reading much of Magnus Sahlgren’s work on distributed word representations. Also worth mentioning: Huang, Socher, Manning and Ng (2012) learn word embeddings using both local and global context; Reisinger and Mooney (2010) show how VSMs can handle polysemy.
- “Shut up and deal”: Tesla is restricted from selling in New Jersey due to a statute which requires manufacturers to sell through dealers.
- “The Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio is your new bicycle.” Leverage ratio requirements are being increased for some of the US’s systematically important financial institutions. See Fed press release, Reuters coverage.
- “The recovery puzzle.”