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From: Fei-Tzin Lee <fl2301@columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:40:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] milestone update

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 ![A scribbled likeness of myself.](/assets/img/profile.png){:height="256px" width="256px"}
 
-I'm [Fei-Tzin](about.html), a final-year PhD candidate in [NLP at Columbia University](http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/index.cgi). I am advised by [Kathy McKeown](http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kathy/).
+I'm [Fei-Tzin](about.html). I recently defended my thesis in [the NLP group at Columbia University](http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/index.cgi). I am advised by [Kathy McKeown](http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kathy/).
 
 My thesis work explores applications of structured semantic representations of text. My [candidacy exam](candidacy.html) was on word embeddings.
 
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 I gave a guest lecture on word embeddings for [Kathy McKeown's section of NLP](http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kathy/NLP/2019/) in the Fall 2019 semester. Slides can be found [here](files/embeddings-101.pdf).
 
-<!--The notes below are intended to serve as a reference for useful things whose details I may later forget. They should be easier to access here than in the unknown depths of my bookshelf towards which all my physical papers tend to float after a while.
+My thesis defense slides can be found [here](files/defense.pdf).
 
-These notes are not guaranteed to be complete or mistake-free. Read at your own peril.
+<!--Some notes on miscellaneous topics can be found below. They are less a complete reference and more a summary of what I find interesting about the topic. The aim is to be clear enough that my non-NLP friends can understand most of what's going on, but thorough enough to later remind myself of the useful details I'm sure I will forget.
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+Disclaimer: I make plenty of mistakes in daily life and I am sure that extends to these notes as well. Read at your own peril.
 
 [STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SORRY]-->
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