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In the News
Inside Facebook’s AI Machine
The Applied Machine Learning group helps Facebook see, talk, and understand. It may even root out fake news.
Intel on the outside
"The rise of artificial intelligence is creating new variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel"
Also in the news...
- Google acquires Kaggle. More
- Alphabet sues Uber for allegedly stealing self-driving car technology. More
- UK government to invest £20M in AI research. More
- Amper raises $4M for its AI-based music composition service. More
Workplace
The best Data Scientists get out and talk to people
"You can be a good data scientist by sitting at your computer. But great data scientists know they must do more."
Learning
Baidu Deep Voice explained
Baidu's AI Team recently released an impressive Deep Learning based system for converting text to speech.
The amazing power of word vectors
King - Man + Woman = Queen
Word vectors are powerful. Here is what they are and why they matter.
Deep Learning Tips and Tricks
Useful tips and tricks for the design, training and optimization of Deep Neural Networks
Software tools & code
Facebook Prophet: forecasting at scale
Facebook open sourced Prophet, a forecasting tool available in Python and R that they use internally to forecast capacity needs, feature usage etc.
Neural inpainting
Infer a missing region in an image.
Baidu 'Ring Allreduce'
Baidu announced an implementation of the ring allreduce algorithm for the deep learning community, which will enable faster training of neural networks across GPU models.
AudioSet
Dataset of 2M labeled audio samples
Pretrained Word Vectors
Facebook is open-sourcing pretrained word-vectors for 90 languages. Could be very useful for Natural Language Processing, especially for all the smaller languages they included.
Hardware
Nvidia unveils new GeForce GTX 1080 TI graphics chip
$699. "Faster" than the Titan X on some metrics. 11GB memory.
Some thoughts
Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now
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