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How I Levelled Up My Data Science Skills In 8 Months - KDnuggets

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March 2020, I received a call informing me that I would be furloughed until further notice -- informally meaning I'd be paid to learn. I knew the probability of me being made redundant after the furlough period ended was high since there were no projects I was actively working on. Even though I hadn't been doing much work with data at work, the thought of not being able to do any meaningful work with data bothered me. Nonetheless, I felt like my options regarding what I could possibly do next were limited since I did not get much practical experience at work. Don't misunderstand me, I had been doing work as an intern, but I hadn't done anything to significantly (or even marginally) improve the business (at least in my eyes) in my time.


100% OFF CNN for Computer Vision with Keras and TensorFlow in Python

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You're looking for a complete Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) course that teaches you everything you need to create a Image Recognition model in Python, right? You've found the right Convolutional Neural Networks course! Identify the Image Recognition problems which can be solved using CNN Models. Create CNN models in Python using Keras and Tensorflow libraries and analyze their results. Have a clear understanding of Advanced Image Recognition models such as LeNet, GoogleNet, VGG16 etc.



Relaxing the Constraints on Predictive Coding Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Predictive coding is an influential theory of cortical function which posits that the principal computation the brain performs, which underlies both perception and learning, is the minimization of prediction errors. While motivated by high-level notions of variational inference, detailed neurophysiological models of cortical microcircuits which can implements its computations have been developed. Moreover, under certain conditions, predictive coding has been shown to approximate the backpropagation of error algorithm, and thus provides a relatively biologically plausible credit-assignment mechanism for training deep networks. However, standard implementations of the algorithm still involve potentially neurally implausible features such as identical forward and backward weights, backward nonlinear derivatives, and 1-1 error unit connectivity. In this paper, we show that these features are not integral to the algorithm and can be removed either directly or through learning additional sets of parameters with Hebbian update rules without noticeable harm to learning performance. Our work thus relaxes current constraints on potential microcircuit designs and hopefully opens up new regions of the design-space for neuromorphic implementations of predictive coding.


Machine Learning straight through SQL - MariaDB.org

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Machine learning is one area that cannot succeed without data. Traditionally, machine learning frameworks read it from CSV files or similar data sources. This brings an interesting set of challenges because in most cases the data is stored in databases, not simple raw files. It takes time and effort to move data from one format to another. Additionally, one needs to write some code (usually python) to prepare the data just like the ML framework expects it.


Learn Pro Advanced Python Programming

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In this course, I am going to make you a professional programmer by teaching you Advance Level Programming in Python. The Basic of any programming language is not enough to make real time applications therefor, i have covered most of the Advance Level Concepts in depth in this course. As grabbing the main concept behind Advance Topics is not simple therefor, special attention is given to the intuition part of each concept where we gonna understand these concepts with proper animated slides. Also not only understanding these advance concepts are important but to make something real out of it is very important or else there is no reason to learn Advance Programming therefor we will also make real time Advance level Applications in Python using Advance level concepts. We will also learn Machine Learning in Python in depth by covering the Mathematics behind each model as well.


Deep Partial Updating

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Emerging edge intelligence applications require the server to continuously retrain and update deep neural networks deployed on remote edge nodes in order to leverage newly collected data samples. Unfortunately, it may be impossible in practice to continuously send fully updated weights to these edge nodes due to the highly constrained communication resource. In this paper, we propose the weight-wise deep partial updating paradigm, which smartly selects only a subset of weights to update at each server-to-edge communication round, while achieving a similar performance compared to full updating. Our method is established through analytically upper-bounding the loss difference between partial updating and full updating, and only updates the weights which make the largest contributions to the upper bound. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our partial updating methodology which achieves a high inference accuracy while updating a rather small number of weights.


Engineers Build Squid-Like Robot for Underwater Exploration

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Kel Guerin is the Founder & CTO of READY Robotics, creators of the world's first universal operating system for industrial automation, READY Robotics helps all manufacturers solve their labor challenges, boost output, improve quality, reduce costs, and augment their workforce through automation. What initially attracted you to robotics? I was interested in robots from an early age โ€“ I remember a particular book printed in the 80s I read as a kid that showed a bunch of fanciful images of what robots would be like. I also loved movies like Forbidden Planet and the original Lost in Space that showed robots as these helpful devices. I also understood from reading about robots like Dante 1 (a volcano explorer) and the robots we sent to Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island how important these devices were for tasks hazardous to people.


Develop and Deploy an Image Classifier App Using Fastai

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This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Fastai is a popular open-source library used for learning and practicing machine learning and deep learning. Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas founded fast.ai with the objective of making deep learning more accessible. All the exhaustive resources such as courses, software, and research papers available in fast.ai In August 2020, fastai_v2 was released that promises to be much faster, and more flexible to implement deep learning frameworks.


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Are you ready to learn python programming fundamentals and directly apply them to solve real world applications in Finance and Banking? If the answer is yes, then welcome to the "The Complete Python and Machine Learning for Financial Analysis" course in which you will learn everything you need to develop practical real-world finance/banking applications in Python! Python is ranked as the number one programming language to learn in 2020, here are 6 reasons you need to learn Python right now! The course is divided into 3 main parts covering python programming fundamentals, financial analysis in Python and AI/ML application in Finance/Banking Industry. In addition, this section will cover key Python libraries for data science such as Numpy and Pandas.