I am tired of playing catchup

Background: I am a full-time NLP Engineer and I was also into research (published some papers in A-A\* rank NLP conferences) till last year.

Recently, I have been working full-time at a startup, we are doing quite cutting-edge stuff in our NLP Domain, at least that's what it felt like.

I was working on 4 NLP tasks for 3 months and 2 of them got demolished by Gemini Pro. I tried getting some novelty in one of those 2 tasks …

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