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In the News

As Amazon pushes forward with robots, workers find new roles

nytimes.com


Advances in AI are used to spot signs of sexuality

Deep Learning can be used to classify images in a wide range of different contexts. Researchers have shown that inferring sexuality from face images can "easily" be done at super-human accuracies. This raises troubling questions and challenges.

economist.com


Former Waymo CTO on self-driving technology

Chris Urmson warns that we might get too complacent about the technology before it’s totally ready.

recode.net


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Workplace

The Data Science Interview

Train for your next data science interview with 1000+ real interview questions

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Learning

Detecting facial features using Deep Learning

medium.com


Uber's Machine Learning Platform

Description of Uber's internal Michelangelo Machine Learning platform, along with the design decisions and architecture to make their ML scalable, repeatable and practical to use.

uber.com


Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Neurosurgery

The systematic review has found that ML diagnoses ailments 13% better than their clinical counterparts

oup.com


Youtube feed perfection

How Google improved Youtube recommendations with Deep Learning

theverge.com

Software tools & code

Scalable Machine Learning (Part 1)

What do you do when your training dataset is small enough to fit in memory but you need to predict on a much larger dataset?

github.io


Facebook and Microsoft introduce standard for interchangeable AI frameworks

The Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format is a standard for representing deep learning models that enables models to be transferred between frameworks. Hopefully this will make it easier to switch between Tensorflow, Caffe and the likes.

fb.com

Some thoughts

Giving the Dry-Erase whiteboard a High-Tech makeover

Your videoconferences are going to become far more productive.

technologyreview.com

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