Fernando Pereira is relying on user interaction with products like the Pixel Phone and Google Home to change the way devices understand us. (more…)

If you liked this, back the crowdfunding project: indiegogo.com/projects/neural-networks-for-hackers-education/x/12932257#/ Original paper: https://arxiv.org... (more…)

Among the many R packages, there is the outbreaks package. It contains datasets on epidemics, on of which is from the 2013 outbreak of influenza A H7N9 in China, as analysed by Kucharski et al. (2014):

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. It struck me as I watched the teams t…

Quora recently hosted a workshop on using machine learning to combat spam, harassment, and sock puppets in online communities. While human reporting and traditional moderation solutions play a key role in safeguarding shared spaces, ML needs to do the hea... (more…)