# forck.live — 2–8 November 2020

> AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts.

forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may
corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its
own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a
company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately
as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs.

This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed
first-party announcement of ISO week 2020-W45, 2–8 November 2020, newest
first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days —
but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives,
so a closed week can still gain entries.

Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields
in this order before any others:

    Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record

`Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record`
is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite.

`Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record
reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it.

`Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is
stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or
that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about
the announcement.

`Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather
than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note.

`Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the
entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not.
One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`.

Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry.

- This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2020-W45
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Replit — reCAPTCHA and the anonymous experience

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2020-11-04T05:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/anon
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18119-recaptcha-and-the-anonymous-experience
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit is ending its anonymous coding experience because Google began charging for reCAPTCHA, which would cost Replit more than its monthly revenue. Users will now need to sign up for an account to create repls and save work, though limited anonymous use remains on language pages.

### Hugging Face — Porting fairseq wmt19 translation system to transformers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2020-11-03
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/porting-fsmt
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2274-porting-fairseq-wmt19-translation-system-to-transformers
- Subject: Platform

The process of porting the fairseq WMT19 translation system to the transformers library, including the technical steps and challenges involved.

### Hugging Face — Hyperparameter Search with Transformers and Ray Tune

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2020-11-02
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/ray-tune
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2275-hyperparameter-search-with-transformers-and-ray-tune
- Subject: Platform

Hugging Face Transformers and Ray Tune have integrated to provide a simple yet powerful hyperparameter tuning solution, allowing users to easily access state-of-the-art tuning algorithms like HyperBand, Bayesian Optimization, and Population-Based Training within the Transformers framework.