
ASA Criticom Control Pac was in the the (first?) comm center. I was trained as a Tech Controller (173.?) in ASA Criticom Control Pac as there was no school yet at Monmouth. Monmouth for Fixed Station Transmitter Repair (172.?). I was at North Camp Drake for 9 months in 1963 when Kennedy was shot. See my collection of Japanese ruins (haikyo) in the galleries: abandoned Haikyo military base urbex World Ruins See a curation of world ruins in the ruins gallery. Tanks that remind me of Anakin`s racing pod. Interior of what I think is commissary (because of COMM on the wall, yes- please correct me if wrong). Guardpost after the second fence, before the third.ĭo Not Enter – vault-like entrance to the mess hall / commissary. You can see more about Camp Drake on these sites. I know now there was another building deeper in with more industrial stuff, but we were on a schedule (headed for the Gan Kutsu cliff face hotel) so I didn`t take the time. Mike got a bit bored/wary and decided to high-tail it, so I ventured forth and looked into one more building, kind of an industrial room- probably gas and/or hot water heaters. There were chairs and desks lying around in the jungle. The main building remaining seems to have been a mess hall / commissary, and its now flooded, so we couldn`t explore inside. I don`t know why security was so tight, as there was very little to see. Once in though we had to climb one more fence, and actually crawl through a tiny hole cut into a third fence to get close to a building. Access seemed harder than either of the other bases, but as ever there were weak spots. Compared to other US bases around Tokyo- those in Fuchu and Tachikawa, there wasn`t a lot to see, though of course we couldn`t know that until we ventured in. The other half has been eaten up by parks and a junior high school.Ĭamp Drake was one of my last haikyo to explore with Mike before he left for Canada last month. Now about half of it remains, an overgrown jungle with only a few remaining buildings set back behind several layers of fencing. It contained a hospital which handled troops coming out of Vietnam and also a communications array. A particular type of model called Word2Vec uses the embedding layer to find vector representations of words that contain semantic meaning.Camp Drake was a joint US Army/Air Force base in Saitama, active until the 1970`s. You can use them for any model where you have a massive number of classes. The lookup table is trained just like any weight matrix as well.Įmbeddings aren't only used for words of course. The lookup is just a shortcut for the matrix multiplication. The embedding layer is just a hidden layer. The embedding lookup table is just a weight matrix. This process is called an embedding lookup and the number of hidden units is the embedding dimension. Then to get hidden layer values for "heart", you just take the 958th row of the embedding matrix. We encode the words as integers, for example "heart" is encoded as 958, "mind" as 18094. Instead of doing the matrix multiplication, we use the weight matrix as a lookup table. We can do this because the multiplication of a one-hot encoded vector with a matrix returns the row of the matrix corresponding the index of the "on" input unit. We skip the multiplication into the embedding layer by instead directly grabbing the hidden layer values from the weight matrix. We call this layer the embedding layer and the weights are embedding weights. Embeddings are just a fully connected layer like you've seen before. To solve this problem and greatly increase the efficiency of our networks, we use what are called embeddings. The matrix multiplication going into the first hidden layer will have almost all of the resulting values be zero. Trying to one-hot encode these words is massively inefficient, you'll have one element set to 1 and the other 50,000 set to 0. When you're dealing with words in text, you end up with tens of thousands of classes to predict, one for each word. An implementation of word2vec from Thushan Ganegedara.NIPS paper with improvements for word2vec also from Mikolov et al.First word2vec paper from Mikolov et al.A really good conceptual overview of word2vec from Chris McCormick.I suggest reading these either beforehand or while you're working on this material. Here are the resources I used to build this notebook. This will come in handy when dealing with things like machine translation. By implementing this, you'll learn about embedding words for use in natural language processing. In this notebook, I'll lead you through using TensorFlow to implement the word2vec algorithm using the skip-gram architecture.
