Is this guy not texting me back because he’s busy or is he

8 min readDec 5, 2020

Leave my phone out of my office during the day and my bedroom at night: I’m good about leaving it out of the office when I need to write. The bedroom is still an issue for me.

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I prepared this tutorial because it is somehow very difficult to find a blog post with actual working BERT code from the beginning till the end. They are always full of bugs. So, I have dug into several articles, put together their codes, edited them, and finally have a working BERT model. So, just by running the code in this tutorial, you can actually create a BERT model and fine-tune it for sentiment analysis.
Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most cumbersome areas of artificial intelligence when it comes to data preprocessing. Apart from the preprocessing and tokenizing text datasets, it takes a lot of time to train successful NLP models. But today is your lucky day! We will build a sentiment classifier with a pre-trained NLP model: BERT.
And thus the word fell into oblivion, never to be uttered again outside of the Lord’s Prayer. Or did it? “Thou” still retains some currency in certain dialects of Northern England, where it has morphed into “tha.” Phrases like Tha wot? (“You what?”) and Where’s tha bin? (“Where have you been?”) are not uncommon to hear in the rural hamlets of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The object pronoun, “thee,” has also been preserved, as evidenced by this video of a Yorkshire man giving a rhyming overview of the word’s usage. That being said, it’s unclear whether or not this means the T/V distinction also survives — a landmark 1962 survey of English dialects showed that some speakers viewed “tha” as a marker of familiarity, while others asserted that it could be used to refer to anyone, regardless of the speaker’s relationship to the addressee. Today, as its usage becomes increasingly rare, its connotations are only becoming more difficult to discern.

I reached out to Meade at the Facebook page for his flooring company, and after a brief exchange, he declined to be interviewed or to provide any evidence for his claims about violent Black Lives Matter protesters or antifa. “Everything I say gets twisted,” he explained.BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and it is a state-of-the-art machine learning model used for NLP tasks. Jacob Devlin and his colleagues developed BERT at Google in 2018. Devlin and his colleagues trained the BERT on English Wikipedia (2,500M words) and BooksCorpus (800M words) and achieved the best accuracies for some of the NLP tasks in 2018. There are two pre-trained general BERT variations: The base model is a 12-layer, 768-hidden, 12-heads, 110M parameter neural network architecture, whereas the large model is a 24-layer, 1024-hidden, 16-heads, 340M parameter neural network architecture. Figure 2 shows the visualization of the BERT network created by Devlin et al.It’s hard to tell, watching the videos, if Meade really believes any of what he’s saying or if he just wishes it were true. Nobody I spoke to claimed an allegiance with antifa, although most would no doubt oppose fascism. In hours of video later posted on social media — by protesters as well as counterprotesters — I saw no evidence of rioters bussed into town from outside. But some of the 700 or so counterprotesters who showed up in defense of Bethel did seem to sincerely believe busloads of violent protesters had amassed outside the town limits. “I don’t know what they’re thinking… ” one counterprotester muttered of the would-be enemy in a conversation captured by Meade’s phone. As he struggled to wrap his head around the diabolical cunning of the mythical antifa, the man sounded positively dumbfounded. “They’re sending their girls. The guys ain’t even coming down here. They’re sending their girls!”

Okay, this is all fine and dandy, but how the hell do we hold ourselves to this? How do we actually implement these concepts into our lives in a way that feels sustainable, and not just another willpower exercise doomed to fail?
Cold Turkey (MacOS/Windows). My favorite app. Probably the most robust with the most features. You can block websites, specific pages, applications, and even specific Google searches.
2. “Grateful for You” by GIPHY Cares — 948,335,721 views
The GIPHY Cares initiative launched in April and featured new custom GIFs, emojis, and stickers to help spread positivity and support as the world was changing. This top GIF represents how much appreciation we had for each other.

So, I don’t want to dive deep into BERT since we need a whole different post for that. In fact, I already scheduled a post aimed at comparing rival pre-trained NLP models. But, you will have to wait for a bit.3. “I Love You” by RisuDong — 917,045,574 views
“I Love You” is consistently one of the top-searched terms on GIPHY. GIF users all over the world are looking for cute and endearing ways to brighten their loved ones’ day. This cute GIF from illustrators Risu and Dong does that perfectly.This instability is perhaps what led to the eventual demise of the informal term. After a while, “thou” had less to do with familiarity and more to do with belittlement: transcripts from 16th-century court cases show judges sometimes broke convention by “thou”-ing defendants whose crimes they found especially heinous. English speakers began to err on the side of caution in civil conversation by using “you” with all strangers and acquaintances so as to avoid causing accidental offense; this eventually became common practice even in the company of one’s nearest and dearest. When exactly this happened is unclear — the trend probably began with the upper classes and took some time to trickle down into the rest of the population — but it is certain that “thou” had become conspicuous in everyday speech by the mid-18th century. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary confirms that in 1755 the word was used “only in very familiar or very solemn language.” By the 19th century, it was already being discussed by grammarians from a historical perspective.

To achieve that, we need to set boundaries around ourselves. Our minds are too flawed and selfish to be allowed to pursue whatever they want. Instead, we must train our attention with the help of various tools to make sure we’re focusing on the right things.

Following the rally, Meade again took to Facebook Live for a victory lap. “I’m literally just a country boy that’s proud of his hometown,” he said, “and so many people responded to my video that it warms a guy’s heart.”

In my book Everything is Fucked: A Book About Hope, I redefine freedom as self-limitation. Freedom in the 21st century isn’t about having more, it’s about having the agency to choose your commitments to less.

Is this guy not texting me back because he’s busy or is he

Written by Kariyawasam Indipalage Charith Asalanka