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Using GPT-2 to generate Tweets

blog post image Last summer I blogged about using a Deep Neural Network to generate tweets but only used 3200 of my tweets. Since then I've used Twitter's archive mechanism to retrieve ALL my tweets (just over 30,000) to train a network. Not any old network - the GPT-2 model from OpenAI. This 'finetuning' of an existing...

Social media beneficial for sharing and building upon patient experiences, research shows: University of Leicester research

Social media beneficial for sharing and building upon patient experiences, research shows: University of Leicester research suggests patients often seek medical knowledge from social media platforms rather than traditional medical sources.
Source: eurekalert.org

Exercise and diabetes prevention. I was asked about some references and thought I'd share them here from our PgDip Diabetes

Exercise and diabetes prevention. I was asked about some references and thought I'd share them here from our PgDip Diabetes Programme - BMJ / University of Leicester. The classic efficacy articles on exercise preventing diabetes are: The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105033441801#t=abstract...
Source: nih.gov