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Three Original Math and Proba Challenges, with Tutorial

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Here I offer a few off-the-beaten-path interesting problems that you won't find in textbooks, data science camps, or in college classes. These problems range from applied maths, to statistics and computer science, and are aimed at getting the novice interested in a few core subjects that most data scientists master. The problems are described in simple English and don't require math / stats / probability knowledge beyond high school level. My goal is to attract people interested in data science, but who are somewhat concerned by the depth and volume of (in my opinion) unnecessary mathematics included in many curricula. I believe that successful data science can be engineered and deployed by scientists coming from other disciplines, who do not necessarily have a deep analytical background yet are familiar with data.


DSC Webinar Series: Practical Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

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Curious about what human-in-the-loop machine learning actually looks like? Join CrowdFlower and learn how to effectively incorporate Active Learning, Transfer Learning, and Annotation Quality in your ML projects to achieve better results. Join us in this latest Data Science Central webinar, where we will cover the following topics: When to use the human-in-the-loop as an effective strategy for machine learning projects How to set up an effective interface to get the most out of human intelligence How to ensure high-quality, accurate training data sets How to use ML models from different domains to improve your own labeling This webinar will include an end-to-end look at setting up and running a job that generates high-quality training data, and shows how to incorporate that training data into human-in-the-loop machine learning systems that you can run in your own environment.



A Gentle Introduction to the Law of Large Numbers in Machine Learning

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We have an intuition that more observations is better. This is the same intuition behind the idea that if we collect more data, our sample of data will be more representative of the problem domain. There is a theorem in statistics and probability that supports this intuition that is a pillar of both of these fields and has important implications in applied machine learning. The name of this theorem is the law of large numbers. In this tutorial, you will discover the law of large numbers and why it is important in applied machine learning.


Role of lifelong learning in the 'fourth industrial revolution' in the spotlight

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The role that adult education and colleges play in preparing the labour market for technological disruption will be explored by MPs. The World Economic Forum, which holds an annual conference at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, set the theme of its 2016 gathering of world leaders around the topic of the fourth industrial revolution. Since then, the term has entered common parlance and it is now widely characterised as concerning what impact that new technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, will have on the labour market with many low and medium skilled jobs believed to be at risk of automation. Now the education select committee is to explore the issue of preparing for the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Stressing the importance of the inquiry, committee chairman Robert Halfon said by the 2030s, as many as 28 per cent of the current jobs taken by 16- 24-year-olds are likely to be at risk of automation.


The Evolving State of AI-Supplemented Computer-Assisted Instruction

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The traditional CAI Computer-Assisted Instruction) system depends on the instructors who provide the course material and decide the criteria of evaluation for the students. The advanced versions we have these days have a'reactive learning environment' โ€“ where students are actively engaged in their online learning programs. The latter systems employ AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools and techniques to take students' interests and performance factors into account and proceed with tutorial dialogues accordingly. Hence, they are known as AICAI (Artificial Intelligence Computer-Assisted Instruction) System), or simply ICAI for intelligent CAI. Such AICAIs include a domain expert component (which knows all about the topic that is being taught), a student model that can analyze the responses of the learners and decode their knowledge levels as well as misconceptions, and a component which contains information on appropriate teaching strategies in different scenarios.


The Problem With Believing Coding Is No Longer Important - ReadWrite

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Artificial intelligence is topping headlines. Whether it's self-driving cars or Alexa storing your grocery preferences, it seems that AI is finding its way in to just about everything these days, and the implications for daily life and work over the next decade are likely to be significant. Many jobs are at risk for disruption, and cities across the country are thinking about how to prepare their economies for a world in which AI is everywhere. Nothing is safe from speculation, so it should come as no surprise that even coding has come under scrutiny as a skill that may become obsolete in this brave new artificially intelligent world. As one Quartz article put it, coding may soon become "as useful as learning ancient Greek."


AI classroom activity: Facial recognition

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in our daily lives โ€“ search engines, social media, intelligent personal assistants such as Siri โ€“ and today's schoolchildren are a generation who will grow up with these AI technologies. I have a one year old daughter; it is distinctly possible that she does not need to learn how to drive when she grows up because self-driving vehicles will be the norm. As a computer scientist who works in a medical research institute, I witness firsthand how AI is transforming the way we screen our three-billion-character genome to discover disease-causing mutations, and detect cardiovascular risks by analysing data from wearable fitness trackers. Like it or not, AI will be an integral part of our children's future. The term AI may sound scary, possibly due to association with killer robots in science fiction.


How Artists Can Install Neural Networks for Art

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Okay so we've installed the Ubuntu partition last week, and now we're going to install the neural network Deep Style. This is where stuff is probably the most difficult. I'm going to equip you with the tools to solve those problems. When you use a program such as your internet browser, or Photoshop you are using a Graphical User Interface. Before GUI there were CLI .


Keep Calm and train a GAN. Pitfalls and Tips on training Generative Adversarial Networks

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are among the hottest topics in Deep Learning currently. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of papers being published on GANs over the last several months. GANs have been applied to a great variety of problems and in case you missed the train, here is a list of some cool applications of GANs. Now, I had read a lot about GANs, but never played with one myself. So, after going through some inspiring papers and github repos, I decided to try my hands on training a simple GAN myself and I immediately ran into problems.