# forck.live — 8–14 March 2021

> 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 2021-W10, 8–14 March 2021, 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/2021-W10
- The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md
- Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt

## Announcements

### Hugging Face — Fine-Tune Wav2Vec2 for English ASR in Hugging Face with 🤗 Transformers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-03-12
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/fine-tune-wav2vec2-english
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2265-fine-tune-wav2vec2-for-english-asr-in-hugging-face-with-transformers
- Subject: Platform

A tutorial on fine-tuning the Wav2Vec2 model for English automatic speech recognition using Hugging Face Transformers, with a demonstration on the Timit dataset.

### Replit — Replit Case Study - Catalyst Coding Club

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-03-11T08:15:20+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/case_study_catalyst
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18132-replit-case-study-catalyst-coding-club
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit published a case study about Catalyst Coding Club, a student-run organization that uses Replit's online editor, live coding, and assignment features to teach computer science to K-12 students remotely.

### Replit — Markdown Preview

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-03-11T05:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/markdown-preview
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18183-markdown-preview
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit added a live markdown preview pane that appears when a .md file is open, with a toggle, scroll-syncing with the editor cursor, and support for rendering local images referenced in the file.

### Replit — Replit Dotcom

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-03-10T05:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/dotcom
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18155-replit-dotcom
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit is moving its domain from repl.it to replit.com, with automatic redirects and no required action from users. The company states that nothing else changes and it remains the same company pursuing the same mission.

### Replit — Introducing Threads: Have Conversations Around Code

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2021-03-09T05:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/threads
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18230-introducing-threads-have-conversations-around-code
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit introduced Threads, a feature that allows collaborators to select any line of code and start a discussion thread within a repl. The highlights remain visible as people use the editor, and collaborators can read and reply in real time. Replit plans to deprecate repl chat in favor of Threads.

### Hugging Face — Hugging Face Reads, Feb. 2021 - Long-range Transformers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2021-03-09
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/long-range-transformers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2266-hugging-face-reads-feb-2021-long-range-transformers
- Subject: Platform

This is a blog post summarizing four papers on long-range transformers: Longformer, Compressive Transformer, Linformer, and Performer. It discusses their approaches to reducing the quadratic cost of transformer self-attention with respect to sequence length.