In this video course, we start by focusing on R's similarities with programming languages such as basic/C/C# with loops and conditional tests like if, so that you can feel at home and be productive straight away. We begin by introducing R and setting things up so that you are ready to go using Rstudio, the associated IDE. Then we look at R as a programming language and see how the standard things are done in it, so you can see that it's not that different from other programming languages. Next, we introduce some R commands, which are very useful and not as common in traditional languages since manipulating data is more important in R. Moving on, we look at an example in the Titanic dataset, which is the kind of thing you'll come across in R, a multidimensional collection of variables of different types. Using the tools that we cover we can form a picture, a story behind the data.

I am from Budapest, Hungary. I am qualified as a physicist and later on I decided to get a master degree in applied mathematics. At the moment I am working as a simulation engineer at a multinational company. I have been interested in algorithms and data structures and its implementations especially in Java since university. Later on I got acquainted with machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence, numerical methods and recipes such as solving differential equations, linear algebra, interpolation and extrapolation.

Samim Winiger: Welcome to the first episode of Ethical Machines. Pieters: Ethical Machines is a series of con ver sa tions about humans, machines, and ethics. It aims at spark ing a deep er, better-informed debate about the impli ca tions of intel li gent sys tems for soci ety and indi vid u als. Winiger: For our first episode, we invit ed Mark Riedl to come and speak with us. Let's dive into the inter view right now. I'm very pleased that you made it. It's a plea sure to have you on, our first guest. Mark Riedl is an asso ciate pro fes sor at Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and Director at the Entertainment Intelligence Lab. You can read more about his very inter est ing biog ra phy on his web site, which we'll link.

Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons, otherwise known as "killer robots." In their petition, the group states that the development of such technology would usher in a "third revolution in warfare," that could equal the invention of gunpowder and nuclear weapons. "Once developed, [autonomous weapons] will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend," write the signatories. "These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways." The letter is signed by the founders of 116 AI and robotics companies from 26 countries, and was published this weekend ahead of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

Nothing can stop Selena Gomez from expressing her affection to her boyfriend. On Sunday, The Weeknd shared on Instagram Story a snapshot of his girlfriend, Gomez, cuddling him while he was busy playing video games. He captioned the photo with "Home." The "Hands to Myself" singer sported a black sweatshirt as she wrapped herself in his arms. Meanwhile, the "Starboy" crooner was not paying 100 percent attention to her as he was clutching an Xbox controller and was presumably staring at a big TV screen, Us Weekly reported.

Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section. Stocks took a pounding last week as the political turbulence in Washington and terror attacks in Spain caught up with the market. But closer to home employers statewide increased their payrolls by 82,600 jobs in July. Sectors that saw the most employment gains include government, which added 18,800 jobs; educational and health services, which saw an increase of 18,600; and leisure and hospitality, which was up 15,200 jobs. Dark day: The long-awaited solar eclipse sweeps across America on Monday.

A world where there are no car accidents, congestion is a thing of the past, and artificial intelligence (AI)and Internet of Things drive the future are no longer wishful thinking. It's a reality that German-based companies like Bosch is pushing and could be happening in as little as five years. At Bosch's annual press conference held earlier this year, Dr Volker Denner, chairman of the board of management for Bosch, outlined the company's future strategic plans for automated cars and the impact AI and the IoT will have on many things in the not-too-distant future. How serious is the company in pressing innovation in this space? This year the company added 500 more engineers to work on its automated driving projects, which means it has more than 3000 specialists working in this arena.

The world's leading artificial intelligence experts are sounding the alarm on killer robots. Tesla (TSLA) boss Elon Musk is among a group of 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies who are calling on the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons. "Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend," the experts warn in an open letter released Monday. "These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," the letter says.

Killer robots should be urgently banned before a wave of weapons of mass destruction gets out of control, industry leaders say. Robotics and artificial intelligence experts have signed of an open letter demanding the UN prohibit the use of such weapons internationally. Among the 116 signatories are Tesla founder Elon Musk and Mustafa Suleyman, head of applied AI at Google's Deep Mind. The weapons, including lethal microdrone swarms, are on the edge of development with the potential to create global instability, they warn. Killer robots should be urgently banned before a wave of weapons of mass destruction gets out of control, industry leaders say.

We're excited to announce a new research partnership with the Radiotherapy Department at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which provides world-leading cancer treatment. Head and neck cancer in general affects over 11,000 patients in the UK alone each year. Advances in treatment such as radiotherapy have improved survival rates, but because of the high number of delicate structures concentrated in this area of the body, clinicians have to plan treatment extremely carefully to ensure none of the vital nerves or organs are damaged. That makes a cancer at the back of the mouth or in the sinuses, for example, particularly hard to treat with radiotherapy. So with clinicians in UCLH's world-leading radiotherapy team we are exploring whether machine learning methods could reduce the amount of time it takes to plan radiotherapy treatment for such cancers.