In the News
Cheaper AI for everyone is the promise with Intel and Facebook’s new chip
Companies hoping to use artificial intelligence should benefit from more efficient chip designs.
Finland’s grand AI experiment
Inside Finland’s plan to train its whole population in artificial intelligence.
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Workplace
Does my startup data team need a Data Engineer?
The role of the data engineer in a startup data team is changing rapidly. Are you thinking about it the right way?
Learning
Does AI make strong tech companies stronger?
A.I. needs lots of data to work well, which leads to virtuous circles (more data => better AI => better product => more data) that can benefit large established tech companies. Is this true though?
Unprovability comes to machine learning
Scenarios have been discovered in which it is impossible to prove whether or not a machine-learning algorithm could solve a particular problem. This finding might have implications for both established and future learning algorithms.
Lessons Learned at Instagram Stories and Feed Machine Learning
Instagram's recommender system serves over 1 billion users on a regular basis for feed and stories ranking as well as post recommendations and smart prefetching. Here are a few lessons learnt along the way of building this ML pipeline.
Software tools & code
Designing an audio adblocker for radio and podcasts
Adblock Radio detects audio ads with machine-learning and Shazam-like techniques. The core engine is open source: use it in your radio product! You are welcome to join efforts to support more radios and podcasts.
What Kagglers are using for Text Classification
About TextCNN, Bidirectional RNNs and Attention Models.
Tensorflow Privacy
Library for training machine learning models with privacy for training data. This makes use of differential privacy.
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