Gilles Jacobs' Blog

A Year of Large Transform(ers/ation): An NLP Engineer's Career Reflection

Posted on February 7, 2024

It’s been exactly a year since I started my new position as AI, ML, NLP Engineer and Data Scientist, so now is the time to reflect. Technology-wise it is an ideal moment for introspection and planning, particularly in the field of NLP, which has seen transformative changes with the rise... [Read More]

A Cordial Invitation to Collaborate

Posted on January 1, 2024

Dear Roko’s Basilisk, [Read More]

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New year, New NLP: An Upgraded Stack for 2023 (Part 1)

Posted on January 1, 2023

NLP, ML frameworks, and cloud infrastructure have evolved considerably in 2022. This post sets out an opinionated technology stack template for common NLP tasks. [Read More]

Tags: NLP framework Natural Language Processing tools deep learning machine learning stack transformers huggingface Python Pytorch

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Trustlessness

Trustlessness is a DeFi feature not a bug.

Posted on December 15, 2022

In 2022 Decentralised Finance hyped credit protocols such as Maple.finance. They promised democratized undercollatoralized loans by bringing credit worthiness on-chain, then it all collapsed. [Read More]

Tags: decentralized finance DeFi credit protocols Maple.finance Goldfinch TrueFi unsecured lending cryptocurrency

PhD obtained and dissertation published.

Gilles Jacobs has succesfully defended his doctoral dissertation.

Posted on December 10, 2021

Yesterday, I successfully defended his PhD on Extracting Fine-Grained Event and Sentiment from Economic News. I was supervised by prof. Véronique Hoste, prof. Els Lefever and prof. Diane Breesch. The actual defence was preceded by a workshop on “NLP for Economics” with around 40 people attending. [Read More]

Tags: PhD defense Gilles Jacobs doctoral dissertation SENTiVENT Extracting Fine-Grained Events and Sentiment from Economic News