In the News
Automation is already here
"If you’ve been stuck in an airport because of delays recently, you already know how bad a highly automated society will be"
Artificial intelligence used to identify skin cancer
In hopes of creating better access to medical care, Stanford researchers have trained an algorithm to diagnose skin cancer.
Also in the news...
- Microsoft acquires Deep Learning startup Maluuba. This means Yoshua Bengio is getting an advisory role at Microsoft. More
- Amazon acquired AI security startup Harvest for $20M. More
- Google is bringing AI to Raspberry PI. More
- Spare5 re-launches as Mighty AI, raises $14M for AI training data service. More
- Knight foundation, Omidyar network and Reid Hoffman create a $27M fund for AI. More
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Workplace
41 Machine Learning interview questions & answers
Great resource to prepare for interviews — or test candidates.
Learning
Google - Machine Learning to fight spam & abuse at scale
Identifying and blocking ‘bad’ apps from entering Google Play platform
McKinsey report on automation
"Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. [This] report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand."
Astronomers explore uses for AI-generated images
Neural networks produce pictures to train image-recognition programs and scientific software.
Applying deep adversarial autoencoders for new molecule development in oncology
Technical article on the use of autoencoders cancer-treating molecule development. Here is to hoping that we will see more of those Deep Learning applications in medicine.
Software tools & code
Best practices for ML engineering
This document is intended to help those with a basic knowledge of machine learning get the benefit of best practices in machine learning from around Google. It presents a style for machine learning, similar to popular guides to practical programming.
food2vec - Augmented cooking with machine intelligence
Building a recommendation system for food & exploring the world's cuisines.
CryptoNets: scoring deep learning on encrypted data
Homomorphic encryption could become an interesting trend in Deep Learning, where nets are trained to classify and process encrypted data instead of plain data, hence protecting users' privacy.
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