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* Use six and feature detection in string conversion

Leverage [__six.ensure_text()__](https://github.com/benjaminp/six/blob/master/six.py#L890) to deliver Unicode text in both Python 2 and Python 3.

Follow Python porting best practice [use feature detection instead of version detection](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html#use-feature-detection-instead-of-version-detection) in ___unicode_to_native()__.

* Revert the use of six.ensure_text()

Thanks for catching that!  I jumped the gun.  It is I who have brought shame...

* port changes from previous branch now that transformer util changes are in master

fix incorrect count

correct (hopefully) treatment of batch_size

set eval_metrics to a dummy function for now

add some comments

start bringing metrics to transformer TPU

resolve logits shape

metrics are now working except for tf.py_func metrics

increase batch_size for tpu, and create summary host call

fix host call

reduce tpu default batch size

further tune batch sizes

add minibatch loss to summary

handle case of single_iteration_train_steps > number points in an epoch

begin to incorporate hooks

add sleep workarounds

disable hooks altogether

generalize host call function and move to newly created tpu utils module

remove all traces of params as an object

switch from  to

address some PR comments, and change the number of data points.

minor tweaks

add tpu dry run for testing, and use matmul for TPU embedding

infeed/outfeed queue issue is fixed. Sleeps are no longer necessary

add some documentation.

cleanup and address PR comments

delint

add accelerator __init__

fix embedding

missed PR comment

address PR comments

fix validator bug

rewrite cloud storage validator, and add oauth dependency to requirements.txt

* delint