Follow-up on #minnehack2023 : Our team took 1st place! Our NLP-powered legislation summarization tool ended up being popular, which was an extreme-- but welcome-- surprise. It was an incredible experience for me, and my interest in #machinelearning , #datamining , and #NLP has been sufficiently piqued, that's for sure.

If you'd like to take a look, here's our repo:
https://git.heen.dev/billnom

I, @ronofays, and two others just finished up at #minnehack2023! Our project is up on DevPost at https://devpost.com/software/bill-nom
It's been a wild 24 hours, I learned about #BeautifulSoup #machinelearning #NLP #PyTorch #HuggingFace #Dash by #Plotly and more, and I now desperately need sleep.

Had an absolute blast and all I want right now is to do it all again. I had no idea a #hackathon was this fun.

Here's our validation loss curve on that T5 NLP model, just for fun:

At #minnehack2023 today, first #hackathon I've been to in 8 years, hoping it goes well.

If you'd like to watch our team's progress on a Nano-GPT powered legislation summarization tool, head on over to https://github.com/eaheen/billnom