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In the News

Tougher Turing test exposes chatbots’ stupidity

We have a long way to go if we want virtual assistants to understand us

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Germany enlists machine learning to boost renewables revolution

Grids struggle to cope with erratic nature of wind and solar power.

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Learning

10 Papers from ICML and CVPR

Great post listing some of the most interesting presentations and papers from the ICML and CVPR conferences this year.

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Applications of Deep Learning

List of applications of Deep Learning, along with links to relevant material and examples

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Behind XBox matchmaking

Great post describing Trueskill - the bayesian ranking system behind xbox matchmaking.

moserware.com


Teaching an AI to write Python code with Python code

OK, let’s drop autonomous vehicles for a second. Things are getting serious. This post is about creating a machine that writes its own code. More or less.

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Software tools & code

Benchmarks for popular computer vision models

Speed and accuracy tests, featuring the most common convolutional neural networks (VGG, ResNet...) as well as hardware: TITAN X vs 1080

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Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS

Review of the 2 neural network APIs Apple introduces with iOS10: Basic Neural Network Subroutines (BNNS) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN).

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Data Gallery by Google

This is an open Data gallery made available by Think with Google, for use in Machine Learning projects and for statistics.

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Using Keras and Deep Q-Network to play FlappyBird

200 lines of python code to demonstrate DQN with Keras

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Some thoughts

Language Evolution Simulation

Fun way to visualize an agent-based model

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Rectangular countries

Some countries look surprisingly close to a rectangle (Portugal, Turkey...). Ever wondered what countries are the most rectangular ones? Here is an R-based approach to know!

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