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When I chose natural language processing in winter 2017 because at the time I was learning many languages and self studying applied linguistics it was a unpopular obscure field with Jurafsky’s Speech and Language Processing book with crazy mathematical methods (transducers, automata, maximum entropy models, context-free grammars etc). Bag of words and TF-IDF!

In 2019 in the uni when BERT was already out we still were studying all that stuff!

I got the lowest grade (7.5) in my diploma at Introduction to Human Language Technologies’ exam because I did something wrong in a hidden markov chain problem for part-of-speech tagging. Now I think about it, it seems absolutely insane.

The spring of 2022 I was running around looking for a new job because I wanted more money for personal reasons. The only people that were interested in me were machine translation (as in my current job at that time) people, guys who parsed HR stuff (job positions etc.), a company with a symbolic rules (!!!) system for FAQ support and some practical task people like news toxicity detection. Obscure (again)! Cheap! Let’s be honest, absolutely useless. In spring of 2022. A year ago.

I started my current job I’m in love with on 7 of November 2022.

On November 30 of 2022 ChatGPT launched.

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When I chose natural language processing in winter 2017 because at the time I was learning many languages and self studying applied linguistics it was a unpopular obscure field with Jurafsky’s Speech and Language Processing book with crazy mathematical methods (transducers, automata, maximum entropy models, context-free grammars etc). Bag of words and TF-IDF!

In 2019 in the uni when BERT was already out we still were studying all that stuff!

I got the lowest grade (7.5) in my diploma at Introduction to Human Language Technologies’ exam because I did something wrong in a hidden markov chain problem for part-of-speech tagging. Now I think about it, it seems absolutely insane.

The spring of 2022 I was running around looking for a new job because I wanted more money for personal reasons. The only people that were interested in me were machine translation (as in my current job at that time) people, guys who parsed HR stuff (job positions etc.), a company with a symbolic rules (!!!) system for FAQ support and some practical task people like news toxicity detection. Obscure (again)! Cheap! Let’s be honest, absolutely useless. In spring of 2022. A year ago.

I started my current job I’m in love with on 7 of November 2022.

On November 30 of 2022 ChatGPT launched.

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