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The future of digital skills
The acquisition and use of digital skills are essential for the digital transformation of European economies. Using digital devices to find, evaluate, use, share, curate and create content has become the norm in many if not most professional and social environments. While digital natives -- Millennials and especially Gen Z -- grew up with these new technologies and have gained early exposure and experience, many older workers -- Gen X and beyond -- face higher learning barriers. Moreover, as digital technologies evolve rapidly, with new platforms emerging and ever more complex tools being introduced, regular updating of essential knowledge about these technologies becomes a necessity. Lot of attention, therefore, focuses on the type of skills needed to be able to properly use digital tools and devices and how to introduce this into updated curricula.
9 Free Resources to Master Python - KDnuggets
Python is considered the easiest high-level, general-purpose programming language to learn, allowing you to build portable, cross-platform applications. This, along with its dynamic garbage collection and simple, concise code, makes it ideal for applications related to artificial intelligence. But how do you go from writing a simple "Hello World" app to using Python for more sophisticated projects? The following guide will introduce nine resources that can help you master Python. InventWithPython.com is a website created and maintained by Al Sweigart, a professional software developer who has dedicated much of his time to teaching people how to code. Invent With Python provides you with a host of resources (mostly in an eBook form) to help you start coding with Python.
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Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar's most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. Some of the magic wears off, however, when Lee learns that the image had not appeared simply by asking for "a picture of a train." Instead, it had to be painstakingly coded and rendered--by hard-working humans. Now picture Lee 43 years later, stumbling onto DALL-E, an artificial intelligence that generates original works of art based on human-supplied prompts that can literally be as simple as "a picture of a train." As he types in words to create image after image, the wow is back.
Everything You Need To Know About Mathematics for Machine Learning
This Edureka video on'Mathematics for Machine Learning' teaches you all the math needed to get started with mastering Machine Learning. It teaches you all the necessary topics and concepts of Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus, Statistics, and Probability and also dives into the actual implementation of these topics. Are you an aspiring data scientist who is fascinated by how things workaround in the world of data science and machine learning? Well, congrats on choosing the right career path that is best suited for you at this point in time. However, did you know that you need to ace mathematics for machine learning and data science?
UAlbany hires 27 professors for artificial intelligence classes
"AI increasingly touches every facet of daily life," President Havidán Rodríguez said at a press conference announcing the hires. "This will ensure every graduate has the foundation they need and is well prepared for whatever career they choose." The state gave UAlbany $5.2 million to hire new faculty. The university hired 22 professors to fill vacancies, as well as the 27 new professors who specialize in artificial intelligence as it relates to their field of study. They will be hired before the start of the 2023-2024 school year.
A Practical Approach to Timeseries Forecasting using Python
Have you ever wondered, how weather predictions are made? Have you ever thought to estimate the global population in 2050! What if, someone told you that you can predict the expected life of our universe by just sitting next to your laptop in your home. You might have searched for many relevant courses, but this course is different! This course is a complete package for the beginners to learn time series, data analysis and forecasting methods from scratch.
VeLO: Training Versatile Learned Optimizers by Scaling Up
Metz, Luke, Harrison, James, Freeman, C. Daniel, Merchant, Amil, Beyer, Lucas, Bradbury, James, Agrawal, Naman, Poole, Ben, Mordatch, Igor, Roberts, Adam, Sohl-Dickstein, Jascha
While deep learning models have replaced hand-designed features across many domains, these models are still trained with hand-designed optimizers. In this work, we leverage the same scaling approach behind the success of deep learning to learn versatile optimizers. We train an optimizer for deep learning which is itself a small neural network that ingests gradients and outputs parameter updates. Meta-trained with approximately four thousand TPU-months of compute on a wide variety of optimization tasks, our optimizer not only exhibits compelling performance, but optimizes in interesting and unexpected ways. It requires no hyperparameter tuning, instead automatically adapting to the specifics of the problem being optimized. We open source our learned optimizer, meta-training code, the associated train and test data, and an extensive optimizer benchmark suite with baselines at velo-code.github.io.
Estimating the Uncertainty in Emotion Class Labels with Utterance-Specific Dirichlet Priors
Wu, Wen, Zhang, Chao, Wu, Xixin, Woodland, Philip C.
Emotion recognition is a key attribute for artificial intelligence systems that need to naturally interact with humans. However, the task definition is still an open problem due to the inherent ambiguity of emotions. In this paper, a novel Bayesian training loss based on per-utterance Dirichlet prior distributions is proposed for verbal emotion recognition, which models the uncertainty in one-hot labels created when human annotators assign the same utterance to different emotion classes. An additional metric is used to evaluate the performance by detection test utterances with high labelling uncertainty. This removes a major limitation that emotion classification systems only consider utterances with labels where the majority of annotators agree on the emotion class. Furthermore, a frequentist approach is studied to leverage the continuous-valued "soft" labels obtained by averaging the one-hot labels. We propose a two-branch model structure for emotion classification on a per-utterance basis, which achieves state-of-the-art classification results on the widely used IEMOCAP dataset. Based on this, uncertainty estimation experiments were performed. The best performance in terms of the area under the precision-recall curve when detecting utterances with high uncertainty was achieved by interpolating the Bayesian training loss with the Kullback-Leibler divergence training loss for the soft labels. The generality of the proposed approach was verified using the MSP-Podcast dataset which yielded the same pattern of results.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Logic and Practice of Programming (LPOP)
Warren, David S., Van Roy, Peter, Liu, Yanhong A.
This proceedings contains abstracts and position papers for the work presented at the second Logic and Practice of Programming (LPOP) Workshop. The workshop was held online, virtually in place of Chicago, USA, on November 15, 2010, in conjunction with the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) 2020. The purpose of this workshop is to be a bridge between different areas of computer science that use logic as a practical tool. We take advantage of the common language of formal logic to exchange ideas between these different areas.