Education
SA to establish Artificial Intelligence Institute
South Africa intends to enhance the teaching of robotics and coding in public schools through the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute. Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the AI Institute is being established in partnership with institutions of higher learning, in particular the Johannesburg Business School of the University of Johannesburg and the Tshwane University of Technology, which are co-founder institutions together with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies. "It is essential that we invest significantly to provide our youth with access to modern training, skill sets and formal education. To achieve this, our Department of Basic Education has introduced robotics and coding as school subjects in primary and high schools. "At present, learners in over a 1,000 schools are designing and producing robots both for gaming and to complete tasks the learners find tedious for human completion.
Fulltime Data Scientist openings in Boston on September 05, 2022
Piper Companies is seeking a Data Scientist, in a hybrid environment to join a cutting-edge Technology and AI oriented company located in Boston, MA. The Data Scientist will support machine learning research and development to further develop the production inference pipeline. Keywords: data scientist, data science, machine learning, ml, ml frameworks, machine learning frameworks, data querying, data, sensor data, data collection, ai, data mining, data analysis, imu, python, tensorflow, pytorch, cloud computing, emg, eeg, ecg, cv, algorithms, hybrid work, hybrid, boston ma, boston Massachusetts, boston. We are driven by the belief that Artificial Intelligence is mankind's greatest invention. It is the key to building a safer, more vibrant, transparent, and empowered society. We are determined to be an active contributor to shaping our future for the better.
Fulltime Data Architect openings in Portland on September 05, 2022
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Are you ready to take the PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming exam? This course is in the form of practice tests and consists of 420 questions that may appear during the PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming exam. Where necessary, explanations are added to the questions. This course allows you to confirm your proficiency and give you the confidence you need to earn the PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming certification. PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming certification is a professional, high-stakes credential that measures the candidate's ability to perform intermediate-level coding tasks in the Python language, including the ability to design, develop, debug, execute, and refactor multi-module Python programs, as well as measures their skills and knowledge related to analyzing and modeling real-life problems in OOP categories with the use of the fundamental notions and techniques available in the object-oriented approach.
Free Python for Data Science Course - KDnuggets
It will be no surprise to readers that Python is one of the languages most associated with the practice of data science. While it could be reasonably argued that Python is the absolute top data science programming language, it would be difficult to argue that, along with R and SQL, Python is not one of the top 3. Regardless of the exact rank of the language, there is no denying that Python is a useful tool for implementing data science in practice. Its ecosystem provides a rich tapestry of libraries covering the entire spectrum of data science pipelines and related data processing and analysis tasks. Knowing data science, Python, and their intersection is a fantastic way to ensure your usefulness as a data scientist. This Python data science course will take you from knowing nothing about Python to coding and analyzing data with Python using tools like Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib.
Intel Labs research helps robots learn new objects after deployment - The Robot Report
The iCub robot, developed by the Italian Institute of Technology, modeling human learning and development in a real-world setting. Intel Labs, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Munich, introduced a new approach to neural network-based object learning that uses interactive online object learning methods. This approach gives robots the ability to learn new objects after deployment autonomously. The approach is meant to make possible future applications like robotic assistants interacting with unconstrained environments possible. These robots could be at work in logistics, healthcare or elderly care.
Semi-Supervised Hierarchical Graph Classification
Li, Jia, Huang, Yongfeng, Chang, Heng, Rong, Yu
Node classification and graph classification are two graph learning problems that predict the class label of a node and the class label of a graph respectively. A node of a graph usually represents a real-world entity, e.g., a user in a social network, or a document in a document citation network. In this work, we consider a more challenging but practically useful setting, in which a node itself is a graph instance. This leads to a hierarchical graph perspective which arises in many domains such as social network, biological network and document collection. We study the node classification problem in the hierarchical graph where a 'node' is a graph instance. As labels are usually limited, we design a novel semi-supervised solution named SEAL-CI. SEAL-CI adopts an iterative framework that takes turns to update two modules, one working at the graph instance level and the other at the hierarchical graph level. To enforce a consistency among different levels of hierarchical graph, we propose the Hierarchical Graph Mutual Information (HGMI) and further present a way to compute HGMI with theoretical guarantee. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this hierarchical graph modeling and the proposed SEAL-CI method on text and social network data.
Class-Incremental Learning via Knowledge Amalgamation
de Carvalho, Marcus, Pratama, Mahardhika, Zhang, Jie, San, Yajuan
Catastrophic forgetting has been a significant problem hindering the deployment of deep learning algorithms in the continual learning setting. Numerous methods have been proposed to address the catastrophic forgetting problem where an agent loses its generalization power of old tasks while learning new tasks. We put forward an alternative strategy to handle the catastrophic forgetting with knowledge amalgamation (CFA), which learns a student network from multiple heterogeneous teacher models specializing in previous tasks and can be applied to current offline methods. The knowledge amalgamation process is carried out in a single-head manner with only a selected number of memorized samples and no annotations. The teachers and students do not need to share the same network structure, allowing heterogeneous tasks to be adapted to a compact or sparse data representation. We compare our method with competitive baselines from different strategies, demonstrating our approach's advantages.
Artificial Intelligence-Based Analytics for Impacts of COVID-19 and Online Learning on College Students' Mental Health
Rezapour, Mostafa, Elmshaeuser, Scott K.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged in Wuhan, China late in December 2019. Not long after, the virus spread worldwide and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. This caused many changes around the world and in the United States, including an educational shift towards online learning. In this paper, we seek to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic and increase in online learning impact college students' emotional wellbeing. We use several machine learning and statistical models to analyze data collected by the Faculty of Public Administration at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in conjunction with an international consortium of universities, other higher education institutions, and students' associations. Our results indicate that features related to students' academic life have the largest impact on their emotional wellbeing. Other important factors include students' satisfaction with their university's and government's handling of the pandemic as well as students' financial security.