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Let AI write your Blog -- AutoBlog

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This is a full transcript of the AutoBlog video & matching slides. We hope, you enjoy this as much as the video. Of course, this transcript was created with deep learning techniques largely automatically and only minor manual modifications were performed. Also, if you spot mistakes, please let us know! I want to talk to you today about research videos and research presentations. I know that many of you are producing videos like the one I'm producing right now in order to highlight their research.



Deep Learning in Finance: Is This The Future of the Financial Industry?

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Is Deep Learning now leading the charge for innovation in finance? Computational Finance, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning have been essential components of the finance sector for many years. The development of these techniques, technologies, and skills have enabled the financial industry to achieve explosive growth over the decades and become more efficient, sharp, and lucrative for its participants. Will this continue to be what drives the future of the financial industry? With the newer deep learning focus, people driving the financial industry have had to adapt by branching out from an understanding of theoretical financial knowledge.


Post-Workshop Report on Science meets Engineering in Deep Learning, NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver

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Science meets Engineering in Deep Learning took place in Vancouver as part of the Workshop section of NeurIPS 2019. As organizers of the workshop, we created the following report in an attempt to isolate emerging topics and recurring themes that have been presented throughout the event. Deep learning can still be a complex mix of art and engineering despite its tremendous success in recent years. The workshop aimed at gathering people across the board to address seemingly contrasting challenges in the problems they are working on. As part of the call for the workshop, particular attention has been given to the interdependence of architecture, data, and optimization that gives rise to an enormous landscape of design and performance intricacies that are not well-understood. This year, our goal was to emphasize the following directions in our community: (i) identify obstacles in the way to better models and algorithms; (ii) identify the general trends from which we would like to build scientific and potentially theoretical understanding; and (iii) the rigorous design of scientific experiments and experimental protocols whose purpose is to resolve and pinpoint the origin of mysteries while ensuring reproducibility and robustness of conclusions. In the event, these topics emerged and were broadly discussed, matching our expectations and paving the way for new studies in these directions. While we acknowledge that the text is naturally biased as it comes through our lens, here we present an attempt to do a fair job of highlighting the outcome of the workshop.


Learn Machine Learning and AI โ€“ Online Training Program @ 93% OFF

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Within the next decade, artificial intelligence is likely to play a significant role in our everyday lives. For any aspiring developer, learning how to code smart software is a good move. These skills are highly valued in tech, finance, sales, marketing, and many other sectors. The Hacker News recently partnered with professional trainers to offer their popular artificial intelligence online training programs at hugely discounted prices. The "Essential AI & Machine Learning Certification Training Bundle," the program aims to help you explore the technology, with four hands-on video courses working towards certification: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Foundation -- Explore the Field of AI & ML and Develop Your Expertise in Neural Network & Deep Architectures Data Visualization with Python and Matplotlib -- Arrange Critical & Meaningful Data Using Python as a Data Visualization Tool Computer Vision -- Explore the World of Visual Data Recognition & Analysis and Understand the Processes Used for Today's Applications Natural Language Processing -- Understand NLP Processes & Identify NLP Tasks in Your Day-to-Day Work Though all these 4 training courses cost a total of $656 when subscribed through the trainer's website, you can now pick up the same for just $39.99 (at 93% Discount) at The Hacker News store.


Applied Machine Learning in R

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Free Certification Course Title: Applied Machine Learning in R Get the essential machine learning skills and use them in real-life situations What you'll


The Minimum Description Length Principle for Pattern Mining: A Survey

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The aim of this document is to review the development of pattern mining methods based on and inspired from the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. Although this is an unrealistic goal, we strive for completeness. The reader is expected to be familiar with common pattern mining tasks and techniques, but not necessarily with concepts from information theory and coding, of which we therefore give an outline in Section 2. Background work is covered in Section 3, starting with the theory behind the MDL principle and similar principles, going over a few examples of uses of the principle in the adjacent fields of machine learning and natural language processing, and ending with a review of data mining methods that involve practical compression as a tool or that consider the problem of selecting patterns.


Lifelong Incremental Reinforcement Learning with Online Bayesian Inference

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A central capability of a long-lived reinforcement learning (RL) agent is to incrementally adapt its behavior as its environment changes, and to incrementally build upon previous experiences to facilitate future learning in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose LifeLong Incremental Reinforcement Learning (LLIRL), a new incremental algorithm for efficient lifelong adaptation to dynamic environments. We develop and maintain a library that contains an infinite mixture of parameterized environment models, which is equivalent to clustering environment parameters in a latent space. The prior distribution over the mixture is formulated as a Chinese restaurant process (CRP), which incrementally instantiates new environment models without any external information to signal environmental changes in advance. During lifelong learning, we employ the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm with online Bayesian inference to update the mixture in a fully incremental manner. In EM, the E-step involves estimating the posterior expectation of environment-to-cluster assignments, while the M-step updates the environment parameters for future learning. This method allows for all environment models to be adapted as necessary, with new models instantiated for environmental changes and old models retrieved when previously seen environments are encountered again. Experiments demonstrate that LLIRL outperforms relevant existing methods, and enables effective incremental adaptation to various dynamic environments for lifelong learning.


How to Selectively Scale Numerical Input Variables for Machine Learning

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Many machine learning models perform better when input variables are carefully transformed or scaled prior to modeling. It is convenient, and therefore common, to apply the same data transforms, such as standardization and normalization, equally to all input variables. This can achieve good results on many problems. Nevertheless, better results may be achieved by carefully selecting which data transform to apply to each input variable prior to modeling. In this tutorial, you will discover how to apply selective scaling of numerical input variables.


5 Ways Machine Learning is Changing the Education Industry - RavStack

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Artificial intelligence is now a part of our daily routine. This technology is all around us, from smart sensors, automatic parking systems, and personal help to clicking beautiful pictures. Similarly, Artificial Intelligence is being included in education, and traditional practices are changing rapidly. The educational industry is becoming more convenient and personalized thanks to the several applications of AI and Machine Learning for education. It has enhanced the way people or students learn, as educational materials are easily available to everyone through smart devices and computers.