In the News
- Microsoft introduces real-time voice translation on Skype. More
- Google says its autonomous cars would have crashed 13 times without the intervention of human drivers. More
- Tesla launches the "summon" feature, where your car drives up to meet you. More
- IBM helped a Winery build an irrigation system that uses Watson to more efficiently water grapevines. More
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Learning
Fashion goes deep - data science at Lyst
Lyst has developed an interesting platform to mix and match visitors with fashion items. Parts are based on Machine Learning and are discussed in this interview.
Localizing endangered whales with extremely deep neural networks
Post describing approaches used in the Kaggle Right Whale challenge, to recognize individual whales from photos. Great ideas - the author managed to finish 2nd.
Enhancing images using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Image super-resolution is an interesting topic. Here, DCGANs are used to greatly enhance low-resolution celebrity photos.
Software tools & code
Yahoo Releases the Largest-ever dataset for ML
The dataset stands at a massive ~110B events (13.5TB uncompressed) of anonymized user-news item interaction data, collected by recording the user-news item interactions of about 20M users from February 2015 to May 2015.
Baidu CTC
Baidu open-sources a fast parallel implementation of Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), on both CPU and GPU.
Hardware
About the chip firms that aren't named Nvidia
What are Intel, Qualcomm and ARM up to in the GPU race against Nvidia? Are they giving up or gearing up?
Some thoughts
Why video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
Post on why and how video games can help build true artificial intelligence (AI): machines or software that can think and act independently in a wide variety of situations.
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