Nick Paine

Recently a remarkable group chat between the most powerful people in our country (and indeed, the world) was made public for the worlds’ viewing pleasure. Now, there has been a lot of attention given to the incompetence that brought these messages to light, but the more interesting story to me was something entirely different and more sinister.

Word2Vec says Best is to Worst as Catan is to Monopoly- but how does it know? By: Jenna Jones and Nick Paine Photo by Uriel SC on Unsplash How does a computer learn to interpret or even understand human language? This is what we set out to understand when we began researching Natural Language Processing (NLP). One simple but effective tool is Word2Vec, an algorithm created by Mikolov et al in 2013.

Forget about fake news, this year’s Uni Revue is all you need to be entertained this week. Forget about fake news, this year’s Uni Revue is all you need to be entertained this week. Entitled ‘Make Tasmania Great Again’, the show is a no holds barred look at trending topics both here and the mainland. Director Nick Paine said no one is spared from the satire. “We pretty much just take the piss out of everything, including ourselves,” he said.