Each year, Ditch Day surprises us with its characteristic display of inventiveness and exuberance. All we know is it will probably happen soon, but when is anyone's guess. This photo gallery prepared by the Archives features classic Ditch Day moments from a few decades ago. Students and stacks looked different, but the spirit of this beloved tradition remains constant through the years.
Introduction to Natural Language Processing & Language Models
This two-day workshop (May 8-9, 12:00 pm) will cover three main areas: classical natural language processing (word context and semantics, entity recognition, sentiment analysis), vector representations ("embeddings"), and language models (neural networks, "attention," the transformer architecture). Register here.
Caltech Library is offering two introductory Julia programming workshops to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. Julia is a high-level programming language designed for technical and scientific computing, known for its speed and efficiency. Julia prioritizes ease of use and readability, making it accessible to both experienced programmers and those new to the field. Register here.
In this week's staff recommendation, Library Administrative Assistant Jess Ayers suggests It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, a weekly audiobook podcast hosted by the actor from The Big Bang Theory and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Jess writes, "The first two episodes were science fiction, and episode two was specifically a story about mathematical proofs, so I felt like it was right up the Caltech alley!"
