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Deep Dives Daily Alerts Learning AIThis week's big news in the AI space has been the launch of Google's Tensorflow, a general purpose library for Machine Learning. More details in this keynote.
This year, a new deep learning toolkit has been launched every 22 days. You may then rightly wonder why Tensorflow matters :)
In the News
The (perfect) startup story of Wit.ai, acquired by Facebook in 21 months
You don’t often get to meet a co-founder of a startup that follows, by all means, the “perfect successful startup” path
Pinterest shop and search with image technology
Pinterest and Shoes.com are testing out Deep Learning-based image tools on shoppers.
Facebook’s virtual assistant ‘M’ is super smart
At this point, the assistant is pretty darn impressive. It can arrange to have flowers delivered, warn you that it’s likely to rain or snag you hard-to-find tickets to the upcoming “Star Wars” movie. But it's probably still a human. So how will this scale and evolve?
Also in the news this week...
- Microsoft launches Project Oxford APIs to recognize emotions in pictures, as well as to perform tasks such as spell checking and speaker recognition
- H20 raises $20M for its open source machine learning platform
- San Francisco startup develops "thinking algorithm" to take on conventional medicine
Learning
Deep Learning for visual question answering
Visual Question Answering can be used as an alternative Turing Test. The task involves answering an open-ended question about an image. Here's an example implementation with python / keras.
Looking back at 9 years of Hacker News
Hacker News has managed to accumulate a history of what tech talks about, what tech cares about, and the progress tech has made. This post looks at interesting things the data from HN can tell us.
James Bond movies
Data analysis to check what makes a "good" vs "bad" James Bond movie.
Software tools & code
Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit by Microsoft
Microsoft released its Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK), to help data scientists "train big models using just a modest cluster and in an efficient manner".
MXNet framework
MXNet is a deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility. It allows you to mix the flavours of symbolic programming and imperative programming together to maximize the efficiency and your productivity.
Neural storyteller
This neural network produces a story from a given image input. Interesting code.
Hardware
Nvidia launches Tesla M4 and M40 GPUs for deep learning
Chipmaker Nvidia announced two new flavors of Tesla graphics processing units (GPUs) targeted at artificial intelligence and other complex types of computing. The M4 is meant for scale-out architectures inside data centers, while the larger M40 is all about impressive performance.
Some thoughts
Regressing Images
This experiment tests a regression-based approach for video stylisation.
This algorithm tries to predict how exciting a website Is
A Berlin-based machine learning startup tries to rate the design of web pages on their “excitingness.” Letting it loose on few homepages gave the following results...
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