April 2021 - nlplab - mailman.cs.vt.edu

using gpu for experiments
by Lifu Huang 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

All, As Shuaicheng and Sijia are catching up the experiments for the EMNLP submissions (the submission deadline is May 17), please try to give them high priority to use the GPUs. For those who are still developing ideas and not catching paper deadlines, please try to avoid running experiments with large GPU usage. Later, whoever is catching a paper deadline, we will apply the same strategy to provide him/her high priority of using GPUs. You can feel free to run any experiments without requiring GPUs. Thanks very much, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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reboot the server
by Lifu Huang 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

I’m planning to reboot the server sometime this week to fix some possible issues. So anyone who is running experiments on the server, please let me know when they can finish. Thanks, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Tuesday: 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5 pm: Zaid Wednesday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang Thursday: 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh We will also skip next week’s group meeting. Before EMNLP deadline (May 17), we will have another two peer review meetings. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Tuesday: 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:00-3:30 pm: Jiahui 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5 pm: Zaid 5-6 pm: reading discussion, Shuaicheng lead. Wednesday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang 2-2:30 pm: Huimin Thursday: 12:30-1:00 pm: Shuaicheng 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5:00 pm: Group meeting. Let’s have a paper peer review meeting. Shuaicheng please send your EMNLP draft to others before the meeting, so that everyone can review it before the meeting and provide feedback and comments. I especially hope Sijia and Adheesh can act as in-house reviewers: pretend yourselves as reviewers of this paper and provide detailed comments based on the attached template of EMNLP review form. Others who are planning to submit a paper to EMNLP, please plan it well. We need to at least have the first draft ready by May 10. Thanks, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

Tuesday: 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 2:30-3 pm: Shuaicheng 3:00-3:30 pm: Jiahui 3:30-4 pm: Xiaochu 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5 pm: Zaid 5-6 pm: reading discussion, Sijia lead. Wednesday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang 2-2:30 pm: Huimin Thursday: 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 5-5:30 pm: Adheesh We will skip next week’s group meeting as I have to attend another NSF workshop at that time. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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[Urgent] change the password on the server
by Lifu Huang 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

All, Please change your password to the server with enough complexity, e.g., minimal length to be 8, with numbers, lowercased and capitalized characters, etc. Some accounts were hacked today and the IT office has notified me that if this happens again, the server will be wiped to be clean. This is very urgent. Please take actions ASAP. Best wishes, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: Registration open at noon on April 3 for employee vaccine clinic on April 6, 7, and 8
by Lifu Huang 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Please consider to take vaccines with available resources, such as the one below. They mainly provide Johnson&Johnson, but also have limited Moderna. If you know any other resources related to vaccines, please also feel free to share with others. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Virginia Tech Mail <vtemail(a)send.vt.edu> Date: Apr 2, 2021, 5:59 PM -0400 To: lifuh(a)vt.edu Subject: Registration open at noon on April 3 for employee vaccine clinic on April 6, 7, and 8 > Registration open at noon on April 3 for employee vaccine clinic on April 6, 7, and 8 > Virginia Tech continues to diligently work with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and New River Health District (NRHD) to facilitate vaccines for university employees. As VDH and NRHD receives vaccines, they are notifying Virginia Tech of the number of vaccines and appointment times they can allot to us while also continuing to vaccinate the rest of our community. In turn, we are notifying employees of the vaccine availability as quickly as possible. > > We are pleased to share that you have the opportunity to register to receive one of 8,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses next week. Vaccines will be administered at the Dedmon Center on the campus of Radford University, 101 University Dr, Radford, VA 24141 on: > > • Tuesday, April 6 from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. > • Wednesday, April 7 from 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. > • Thursday, April 8 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. > > > > The registration site for next week’s appointments will be live tomorrow, Saturday, April 3 at noon. Employees must make an appointment to receive one of these vaccine doses. 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next week meetinng schedule
by Lifu Huang 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

I have to attend an important workshop from 10:30am-4:40pm next Monday and Tuesday, so some meetings are rescheduled. Let me know if they do not work for you. Monday: 4:30 - 4:45 pm: Sijia 4:45 - 5 pm: Shuaicheng 5 - 5:15 pm: Adheesh 5:15 - 5:45 pm: Jiahui Tuesday: 4:30 - 5 pm: Zaid 5 - 6 pm: Reading discussion, Adheesh lead. Wednesday: 10-10:30 am: Kaiwen 1:30-2 pm: Mia, Hang 2-2:30 pm: Huimin 2:30 - 3pm: Xiaochu Thursday: 1-1:30 pm: Shuaicheng 2-2:30 pm: Sijia 4-4:30 pm: Adheesh 4:30-5:30 pm: Group meeting: brainstorming about WikiHow. Everyone please check the website (https://www.wikihow.com/) and previous papers in NLP&CV related to WikiHow. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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