My learning journey on Coursera

Learning is my biggest hobby, and I am always looking at ways to improve both my skillset and learning methods. As my main professional interest is using NLP to build recommenders, I have been using the kinesthetic learning approach in the past few years, to learn while actually coding personal projects using NLTK, SpaCy and various Japanese language modelling libraries. This approach, while fun and provides instant feedback, lacks a foundational structure....

September 21, 2024 · 15 min · 2988 words · Tiffena Kou

Too much creativity, or too little humanity in a GenAI priest

Now that generative AI has become a household name, most people has already chatted with a bot whether you’re aware of it or not. Some users are aware of its sporadic shortfalls and especially hallucinations, and thus will deliberately take its output with a grain of salt. In areas such as generating a poem or image for fun, unbound creativity might not hurt that much. But what if it is in a religious setting, when there are straight thresholds for interpretation?...

May 24, 2024 · 5 min · 924 words · Tiffena Kou