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Is Competing On Kaggle Worth It? Ponderings of a Kaggle Grandmaster

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I would not have a data science career without Kaggle. So if you are looking for a blog post bashing Kaggle, this is not the place. That said, I am not a radical that thinks Kaggle is the ultimate thing that everyone must do in order to become a data scientist. I want to give an honest opinion coming from the perspective of someone that heavily competed but decided to "retire" a few years ago. My career path is very weird, but I think it's an even more compelling case to show how spending time working on Kaggle competitions can help you. I am a law school dropout that didn't want to go back to college and decided it was a good idea to self-learn machine learning even though, at the time, almost all data science job postings required at least a Masters degree in STEM. I saw competing on Kaggle as my only shot at showing I knew what I was doing and compensating for not having academic credentials.


Human Intelligence (HU) vs Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to surpass human intelligence (HI) in the near future. Despite huge advances in technology, artificial intelligence is still far from complete. Human intelligence aims to learn from experience and adapt to new environments via different cognitive processes, while artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to mimic and surpass human actions and behaviour. Human intelligence is measured by either a group or individually administered test. It only takes a few minutes after meeting someone for most of us to judge how smart, competent, or quick-witted we think they are.


Consolidation of data science edtech industry โ€“ Analytics India Magazine

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A profitable company, INSOFE is an educational institution that focuses on data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning courses.


75pc work on artificial intelligence lab at NUST completed

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Islamabad: Seventy-five per cent work of Pakistan first high-standard artificial intelligence laboratory under CPEC at National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has been completed while the equipment installation is almost 100 per cent finished. At the beginning of this year, the laboratory under CPEC--Qingluan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was officially established at NUST, with joint efforts of NUST and Guangzhou Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research, development and customisation is currently underway. I would say work is almost finished to 75%." Muhammad Khubaib Shabbir, Deputy Director of China Study Centre of NUST told Gwadar Pro on Saturday. The lab has been put into full use, both students and teaching staff are keen on researching Pattern and Facial Recognition algorithms, the reporter learned. "Currently, Cogniser-V1 intelligent video analysis project-a pilot project with the Government of Pakistan, and a commercial project, namely GymBot are the main projects that are under development." "Ideally, Cognizer-V1 is one of the most sophisticated surveillance equipment, which has the capability of converting ordinary cameras and surveillance equipment into a Smart Equipment, using AI and Computer Vision Algorithms." "To put it simple, the Cognizer-V1 has the ability to sense the people who are lurking around in certain areas and generate warnings, regarding dangerous behavioral patterns such as suicide, or other suspicious activities." In the case of Pakistan, the country is blessed with a large number of artificial intelligence application scenarios and a huge market, thanks to its world's 6th largest population. Moreover, the country is never short on talents. However, challenges lie in the commercialisation of scientific achievements-- an important step which can be viewed as one of the sources for innovation. Due to the backward industrial conditions and obstruction of international exchanges during the epidemic, the progress of commercialization in Pakistani scientific research institutes has been extremely slow. "Our other key project, 'GymBot', can be a perfect example of science commercialization.


A Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Detection of Qualitative Features of Lecturing

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Artificial Intelligence in higher education opens new possibilities for improving the lecturing process, such as enriching didactic materials, helping in assessing students' works or even providing directions to the teachers on how to enhance the lectures. We follow this research path, and in this work, we explore how an academic lecture can be assessed automatically by quantitative features. First, we prepare a set of qualitative features based on teaching practices and then annotate the dataset of academic lecture videos collected for this purpose. We then show how these features could be detected automatically using machine learning and computer vision techniques. Our results show the potential usefulness of our work.


Telangana: Intermediate vocational may have courses in AI, ML

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Hyderabad: Students of intermediate can learn the nitty-gritty of emerging technologies from the next academic year. The Department of Intermediate Education has proposed introducing six new vocational courses out of which three are in the computer science stream and three in the electronics stream. The courses proposed under the computer science stream are Cyber Physical Systems & Security, Cloud Computing & Big Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Under the electronics stream, Electronics and Video Engineering Technician, Bio-Medical Engineering Technician and Embedded System Technician courses have been planned as part of intermediate vocational education from the academic year 2022-23. Towards this, the department has sent a proposal to the State government seeking a nod.


Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps)

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In the fourth course of Machine Learning Engineering for Production Specialization, you will learn how to deploy ML models and make them available to end-users. You will build scalable and reliable hardware infrastructure to deliver inference requests both in real-time and batch depending on the use case. You will also implement workflow automation and progressive delivery that complies with current MLOps practices to keep your production system running. Additionally, you will continuously monitor your system to detect model decay, remediate performance drops, and avoid system failures so it can continuously operate at all times. Understanding machine learning and deep learning concepts is essential, but if you're looking to build an effective AI career, you need production engineering capabilities as well.


Adding Human Rationality to MNIST via Neural Cellular Automata

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In this experiment, I used the results of the market research of my thesis made with real people to alter the kernel of a CNN. The idea was to add human rationality to solve the MNIST task using aโ€ฆ


Refresher to a Perceptron unit in Deep learning -- P

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Deep learning is a domain of machine learning that is algorithmically designed to function similar to how the human brain works. You have neurons that are individually operating units/functions that pass information (just some numbers) from the previous layer (of neurons) to the next layer. This article is a refresher article and is not intended to teach you deep learning fully. If you are a newbie, I recommend going through Udacity's free course on Introduction to Deep Learning (Pytorch). Ok so, we all know deep learning consists of these units called perceptrons.


A Complete Reinforcement Learning System (Capstone)

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In this final course, you will put together your knowledge from Courses 1, 2 and 3 to implement a complete RL solution to a problem. This capstone will let you see how each component---problem formulation, algorithm selection, parameter selection and representation design---fits together into a complete solution, and how to make appropriate choices when deploying RL in the real world. This project will require you to implement both the environment to stimulate your problem, and a control agent with Neural Network function approximation. In addition, you will conduct a scientific study of your learning system to develop your ability to assess the robustness of RL agents. To use RL in the real world, it is critical to (a) appropriately formalize the problem as an MDP, (b) select appropriate algorithms, (c) identify what choices in your implementation will have large impacts on performance and (d) validate the expected behaviour of your algorithms.