This course teaches the basic concepts of computer-aided translation technology, helps students learn to use a variety of computer-aided translation tools, enhances their ability to engage in various kinds of language service in such a technical environment, and helps them understand what the modern language service industry looks like. This course covers introduction to modern language services industry, basic principles and concepts of translation technology, information technology used in the process of language translation, how to use electronic dictionaries, Internet resources and corpus tools, practice of different computer-aided translation tools, translation quality assessment, basic concepts of machine translation, globalization, localization and so on. As a compulsory course for students majoring in Translation and Interpreting, this course is also suitable for students with or without language major background. By learning this course, students can better understand modern language service industry and their work efficiency will be improved for them to better deliver translation service.

About this course: This one-week accelerated on-demand course provides participants a a hands-on introduction to designing and building machine learning models on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hand-on labs, participants will learn machine learning (ML) and TensorFlow concepts, and develop hands-on skills in developing, evaluating, and productionizing ML models. OBJECTIVES This course teaches participants the following skills: Identify use cases for machine learning Build an ML model using TensorFlow Build scalable, deployable ML models using Cloud ML Know the importance of preprocessing and combining features Incorporate advanced ML concepts into their models Productionize trained ML models PREREQUISITES To get the most of out of this course, participants should have: Completed Google Cloud Fundamentals- Big Data and Machine Learning course OR have equivalent experience Basic proficiency with common query language such as SQL Experience with data modeling, extract, transform, load activities Developing applications using a common programming language such Python Familiarity with Machine Learning and/or statistics Notes: • You'll need a Google/Gmail account and a credit card or bank account to sign up for the Google Cloud Platform free trial (Google is currently blocked in China).

A Dirichlet $k$-partition of a domain $U \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ is a collection of $k$ pairwise disjoint open subsets such that the sum of their first Laplace-Dirichlet eigenvalues is minimal. A discrete version of Dirichlet partitions has been posed on graphs with applications in data analysis. Both versions admit variational formulations: solutions are characterized by minimizers of the Dirichlet energy of mappings from $U$ into a singular space $\Sigma_k \subseteq \mathbb{R}^k$. In this paper, we extend results of N.\ Garc\'ia Trillos and D.\ Slep\v{c}ev to show that there exist solutions of the continuum problem arising as limits to solutions of a sequence of discrete problems. Specifically, a sequence of points $\{x_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}}$ from $U$ is sampled i.i.d.\ with respect to a given probability measure $\nu$ on $U$ and for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$, a geometric graph $G_n$ is constructed from the first $n$ points $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n$ and the pairwise distances between the points. With probability one with respect to the choice of points $\{x_i\}_{i \in \mathbb{N}}$, we show that as $n \to \infty$ the discrete Dirichlet energies for functions $G_n \to \Sigma_k$ $\Gamma$-converge to (a scalar multiple of) the continuum Dirichlet energy for functions $U \to \Sigma_k$ with respect to a metric coming from the theory of optimal transport. This, along with a compactness property for the aforementioned energies that we prove, implies the convergence of minimizers. When $\nu$ is the uniform distribution, our results also imply the statistical consistency statement that Dirichlet partitions of geometric graphs converge to partitions of the sampled space in the Hausdorff sense.

About this course: Case Studies: Analyzing Sentiment & Loan Default Prediction In our case study on analyzing sentiment, you will create models that predict a class (positive/negative sentiment) from input features (text of the reviews, user profile information,...). In our second case study for this course, loan default prediction, you will tackle financial data, and predict when a loan is likely to be risky or safe for the bank. These tasks are an examples of classification, one of the most widely used areas of machine learning, with a broad array of applications, including ad targeting, spam detection, medical diagnosis and image classification. In this course, you will create classifiers that provide state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks. You will become familiar with the most successful techniques, which are most widely used in practice, including logistic regression, decision trees and boosting.

About this course: Science is undergoing a data explosion, and astronomy is leading the way. Modern telescopes produce terabytes of data per observation, and the simulations required to model our observable Universe push supercomputers to their limits. To analyse this data scientists need to be able to think computationally to solve problems. In this course you will investigate the challenges of working with large datasets: how to implement algorithms that work; how to use databases to manage your data; and how to learn from your data with machine learning tools. The focus is on practical skills - all the activities will be done in Python 3, a modern programming language used throughout astronomy.

In the past year I have also worked with Deep Learning techniques, and I would like to share with you how to make and train a Convolutional Neural Network from scratch, using tensorflow. Later on we can use this knowledge as a building block to make interesting Deep Learning applications. Here I will give a short introduction to Tensorflow for people who have never worked with it before. If you want to start building Neural Networks immediatly, or you are already familiar with Tensorflow you can go ahead and skip to section 2. If you would like to know more about Tensorflow, you can also have a look at this repository, or the notes of lecture 1 and lecture 2 of Stanford's CS20SI course. The most basic units within tensorflow are Constants, Variables and Placeholders.

About this course: By enrolling in this course you agree to the End User License Agreement as set out in the FAQ. Once enrolled you can access the license in the Resources area The Internet of Things (IoT) is an area of rapid growth and opportunity. Technical innovations in networks, sensors and applications, coupled with the advent of'smart machines' have resulted in a huge diversity of devices generating all kinds of structured and unstructured data that needs to be processed somewhere. Collecting and understanding that data, combining it with other sources of information and putting it to good use can be achieved by using connectivity, analytical and cognitive services now available on the cloud, allowing development and deployment of solutions to be achieved faster and more efficiently than ever before. This course is an entry level introduction to developing and deploying solutions for the Internet of Things.

If you've never used Azure Machine Learning Studio before, this tutorial is for you. In this tutorial, we'll walk through how to use Studio for the first time to create a machine learning experiment. The experiment will test an analytical model that predicts the price of an automobile based on different variables such as make and technical specifications. This tutorial shows you the basics of how to drag-and-drop modules onto your experiment, connect them together, run the experiment, and look at the results. We're not going to discuss the general topic of machine learning or how to select and use the 100 built-in algorithms and data manipulation modules included in Studio.

About this course: This 1-week, accelerated on-demand course builds upon Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals. Through a combination of instructor-led presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, students learn how to carry out no-ops data warehousing, analysis and pipeline processing. Prerequisites: • Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals • Experience using a SQL-like query language to analyze data • Knowledge of either Python or Java Notes: • You'll need a Google/Gmail account and a credit card or bank account to sign up for the Google Cloud Platform free trial (Google is currently blocked in China).

About this course: This course will introduce the learner to applied machine learning, focusing more on the techniques and methods than on the statistics behind these methods. The course will start with a discussion of how machine learning is different than descriptive statistics, and introduce the scikit learn toolkit. The issue of dimensionality of data will be discussed, and the task of clustering data, as well as evaluating those clusters, will be tackled. Supervised approaches for creating predictive models will be described, and learners will be able to apply the scikit learn predictive modelling methods while understanding process issues related to data generalizability (e.g. The course will end with a look at more advanced techniques, such as building ensembles, and practical limitations of predictive models.