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Halifax Data Science Meetup – June 2022

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS

Details Hi everyone, Long time no see!, we are excited to announce that we are back at organizing Data Science presentations for the benefit of the whole professional, academic and enthusiastic community! We have two interesting speakers lined up for this coming June! We'll meet up at 6:00 pm on Wednesday June 8th, and kick off talks shortly after. Pizza and refreshments will be provided *** Space is limited so be sure to RSVP. Also please cancel your RSVP in case you find you are not coming, regardless of how close to the meetup date you find out! *** 1.- Generating Refuted Claims and the Importance of Critical Statements in NLP Pipelines Speaker: Domenic Rosati, Senior Research Scientist, scite.ai Bio: Domenic’s research focuses on natural language understanding and reasoning in scientific texts and how to improve scientific discovery and evaluation with AI. Abstract: With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT3 that perform at almost human levels without any fine tuning on many NLP (Natural Language Processing) benchmarks, a new line of research has emerged trying to assess the safety of these models by assessing the factuality and faithfulness of their outputs Unfortunately, LLMs have been shown to […]

Social Meetup — Lion’s Head Tavern — July 28th @ 6pm

Lion's Head Tavern 3085 Robie St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Social Meetup — Lion’s Head Tavern Halifax Data Science Meetup's is hosting a social networking night Thursday, July 28th. Come have a coffee with local data scientists, machine learners, data visualizers, statistical programmers, and the like. Join us Thursday, July 28th at 6:00 pm at The Lion’s Head near the corner of Robbie and Young streets. Please register online if you're interested in attending as space is limited.