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Book Review: Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - insideBIGDATA

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If you're a data scientist who has been wanting to break into the deep learning realm, here is a great learning resource that can guide you through this journey. It's pretty much an all-inclusive resource that includes all the popular methodologies upon which deep learning depends: CNNs, RNNs, RL, GANs, and much more. The glue that makes it all work is represented by the two most popular frameworks for deep learning pratcitioners, TensorFlow and Keras. This book was a real team effort by a group of consummate professionals: Antonio Gulli (Engineering Director for the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud), Amita Kapoor (Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics at the University of Delhi), and Sujit Pal (Technology Research Director at Elsevier Labs). The resulting text, Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras, Second Edition, is an obvious example of what happens when you enlist talented people to write a quality learning resource. I've already recommended this book to my newbie data science students, as I enjoy providing them with good tips for ensuring their success in the field.


Google Assistant's new Family Bell feature adds structure to endless summer days

PCWorld

As summer slowly winds to a close and the first day of remote learning remains weeks away (for many of us, anyway), it's easy--way too easy--to let the kids go nuts on their iPads while the grown-ups toil at home. Luckily, Google Assistant has a new feature to help keep young ones from disappearing into their bean bags. Slated to roll out starting today in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and India, the new Family Bell feature lets you create bells that sound on your Google smart speakers and displays, just like the bells at school. For example, you can day "Hey Google, create a Family Bell" to set reminder bells for breakfast, the start of a virtual camp day, recess in the backyard, or dinner time. You can ask Google Assistant to set a Family Bell on recurring days of the week, and in specific rooms.


Theory & Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks Udemy Course

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At the end of the Course you will understand the basics of Artificial Neural Networks. The course will have step by step guidance for Artificial Neural network development in Python. I have 9 years of work experience as a Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Project Supervisor & Engineer. I have completed a MSc in Artificial Intelligence.


Impact on Jobs across Emerging Technologies During the Current Pandemic Crisis

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Analytics India Magazine (AIM) along with Jigsaw Academy, has developed this study to focus on the impact on jobs across certain emerging technologies. Jigsaw Academy, with over 400 years of combined teaching experience, including online and remote learning delivery, is adept at training and upskilling professionals and freshers in key capabilities in emerging technologies like business analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, deep learning, cybersecurity, full stack development, and cloud computing, to name but a few. The broad Information Technology domain experienced significant growth and consolidation in 2019-2020. At the beginning of this year, various studies conducted by Analytics India Magazine indicated that the IT domain in general, and the specific domains of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Cyber Security domains, to name a few, were experiencing significant growth in terms of revenues, investments, and salaries. Despite the lockdown and recessionary trends, specific domains and technologies across the IT space continue to develop at a steady space. The Covid pandemic has unfortunately affected the broader global and Indian economies – economic activity across the globe has slowed down after a strict lockdown in activity across all major economies. One of the other impacts of the disruption, due to the unfortunate recession and pandemic, is that there has been a shift of jobs and roles to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. Before the lockdown, a small percentage of job roles ( 3-4%) were advertised for the Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities – locations outside the IT, Technology, and BPO hubs. There has now been a significant shift to an average of about 8% of the jobs advertised in tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. This highlights that jobs are now increasingly becoming location independent and now advertised across several locations, including small cities and large towns.


There's No Such Thing As a Tech Expert Anymore

WIRED

Every time Congress holds a hearing about Silicon Valley companies, people mock the legislators for being out of their depth. Last week's effort by the antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee was no exception. "The technological ignorance demonstrated by our elected officials ... was truly stunning," Shelly Palmer, CEO at the Palmer Group, a tech strategy advisory group, told USA Today. "People who are this clueless about the economic forces shaping our world should not be tasked with leading us into the age of AI," he said. "The data elite are playing a different game with a different set of rules. Apparently, Congress can't even find the ballpark."


Recommender Systems and Deep Learning in Python

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Recommender Systems and Deep Learning in Python 4.6 (1,635 ratings) Course Ratings are calculated from individual students' ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately. What do I mean by "recommender systems", and why are they useful? Let's look at the top 3 websites on the Internet, according to Alexa: Google, YouTube, and Facebook. Recommender systems form the very foundation of these technologies. They are why Google is the most successful technology company today.


Eighth grader builds IBM Watson-powered AI chatbot for students making college plans

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While her peers reveled in an unprecedented virtual school year, the self-described "technology enthusiast," Harita Suresh, 13, was bored. She decided on an online course and settled on IBM Skills Network's "AI chatbots without programming." She lacked experience with artificial intelligence, but was eager to learn through the self-paced course. Harita is more than a little familiar with tech, "I have been interested in technology since I was 5," she said. "My first coding challenge was the Lightbot Hour of Code. I was fascinated that the code I wrote could control the actions of the characters on screen. Since then, I pursued coding on multiple platforms like code.org, The more I learned about tech, the more I wanted to know. In fifth grade, I took a Python programming course offered by Georgia Tech."


3 facts about time series forecasting that surprise experienced machine learning practitioners.

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Time series forecasting is something of a dark horse in the field of data science: It is one of the most applied data science techniques in business, used extensively in finance, in supply chain management and in production and inventory planning, and it has a well established theoretical grounding in statistics and dynamic systems theory. Yet it retains something of an outsider status compared to more recent and popular machine learning topics such as image recognition and natural language processing, and it gets little or no treatment at all in introductory courses to data science and machine learning. My original training is in neural networks and other machine learning methods, but I gravitated towards time series methods after my career led me to the role of demand forecasting specialist. In recent weeks, as part of my team's effort to expand beyond traditional time series forecasting capabilities and into a borader ML based approach to our business, I found myself having several discussions with experienced ML engineers, who were very good at ML in general, but didn't have much experience with times series methods. I realized from those discussions that there were several things specific to time series forecasting that the forecasting community takes for granted but are very surprising to other ML practioners and data scientists, especially when compared to the way standard ML problems are approached.


Massachusetts not tracking coronavirus outbreaks in schools even as health officials say they're 'inevitable'

Boston Herald

The state said it has no formal reporting process for tracking coronavirus outbreaks that have already cropped up in summer school programs, leaving teachers unions wondering how health officials plan to prevent outbreaks considered "inevitable" in the fall. "We are not formally tracking them, but we are trying to notice them as they pop up," said Department of Elementary and Secondary Education spokeswoman Jacqueline Reis. "There is no formal reporting process for schools." Reis said the DESE is still finalizing its guidance as schools shore up their plans for remote, in-person or hybrid learning once classes resume in September. "It's absurd and it's stunning but its also not a surprise," said Merrie Najimy, who leads the Massachusetts Teachers Association.


State-of-the-art Techniques in Deep Edge Intelligence

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The potential held by the gargantuan volumes of data being generated across networks worldwide has been truly unlocked by machine learning techniques and more recently Deep Learning. The advantages offered by the latter have seen it rapidly becoming a framework of choice for various applications. However, the centralization of computational resources and the need for data aggregation have long been limiting factors in the democratization of Deep Learning applications. Edge Computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to utilize the hitherto untapped processing resources available at the network periphery. Edge Intelligence (EI) has quickly emerged as a powerful alternative to enable learning using the concepts of Edge Computing. Deep Learning-based Edge Intelligence or Deep Edge Intelligence (DEI) lies in this rapidly evolving domain. In this article, we provide an overview of the major constraints in operationalizing DEI. The major research avenues in DEI have been consolidated under Federated Learning, Distributed Computation, Compression Schemes and Conditional Computation. We also present some of the prevalent challenges and highlight prospective research avenues.