Can we use convolutional neural networks for time series analysis? It seems like a strange use case of convolutional networks, since they are generally used for image related tasks. But in recent months, more and more papers have started using convolutional networks for sequence classification. And since stock prices are a sequence, we can use them to make predictions. I'll also talk about how recurrent networks work as background.

On July 9th, our team hosted a live webinar--Scalable End-to-End Deep Learning using TensorFlow and Databricks--with Brooke Wenig, Data Science Solutions Consultant at Databricks and Sid Murching, Software Engineer at Databricks. In this webinar, we walked you through how to use TensorFlow and Horovod (an open-source library from Uber to simplify distributed model training) on the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform to build a more effective recommendation system at scale. If you missed the webinar, you can view it now as well download the slides here. If you'd like free access Databricks Unified Analytics Platform and try our notebooks on it, you can access a free trial here. Toward the end, we held a Q&A, and below are all the questions and their answers.

How do you get every single girl a full 12 years of quality education? That's the question at the heart of the Malala Fund, the organisation set up by Malala Yousafzai, the young Nobel Prize winner. And she wants to provide this education in parts of the world where it can't be taken for granted. Luckily, she has a powerful ally. In January, Apple revealed a tie-up with Malala Fund as part of the initial goal of getting 100,000 girls into education in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey and Nigeria. But today it has been announced that the collaboration is expanding to Latin America. This expansion means grants will be offered to advocates in Brazil, who will join the Malala Fund's network of so-called Gulmakai Champions.

The Indianapolis Business Journal reports that the Innovation Hub for Connected and Autonomous Transportation Technologies will be part of the university's Discovery Park. The 40-acre (16.2-hectare) complex is used by the school's STEM undergraduate students, graduate-level researchers and faculty.

Bloomberg presents "Foundations of Machine Learning," a training course that was initially delivered internally to the company's software engineers as part of its "Machine Learning EDU" initiative. This course covers a wide variety of topics in machine learning and statistical modeling. The primary goal of the class is to help participants gain a deep understanding of the concepts, techniques and mathematical frameworks used by experts in machine learning. It is designed to make valuable machine learning skills more accessible to individuals with a strong math background, including software developers, experimental scientists, engineers and financial professionals. The 30 lectures in the course are embedded below, but may also be viewed in this YouTube playlist.

Abstract-- Autonomous systems will play an essential role in many applications across diverse domains including space, marine, air, field, road, and service robotics. They will assist us in our daily routines and perform dangerous, dirty and dull tasks. However, enabling robotic systems to perform autonomously in complex, real-world scenarios over extended time periods (i.e. Some of these have been investigated by sub-disciplines of Artificial Intelligence (AI) including navigation & mapping, perception, knowledge representation & reasoning, planning, interaction, and learning. The different sub-disciplines have developed techniques that, when re-integrated within an autonomous system, can enable robots to operate effectively in complex, long-term scenarios. In this paper, we survey and discuss AI techniques as'enablers' for long-term robot autonomy, current progress in integrating these techniques within long-running robotic systems, and the future challenges and opportunities for AI in long-term autonomy. I. INTRODUCTION Robot technology has improved tremendously over the last decade. Consequently, autonomous robot systems have been able to operate in increasingly complex environments and for increasingly long periods of time, i.e. weeks, months, or years. When a fully modelled robot is deployed in a completely known, static environment, the challenge of long-term autonomy (LTA) reduces to one of robustness, i.e. enabling the robot to remain operational for as long as possible. Without these simplifying assumptions autonomous robots face a number of interrelated challenges. The first refers to the application requirements, e.g., the robot platform (hardware and software), environment and tasks to be performed.

We introduce "Talk The Walk", the first large-scale dialogue dataset grounded in action and perception. The task involves two agents (a "guide" and a "tourist") that communicate via natural language in order to achieve a common goal: having the tourist navigate to a given target location. The task and dataset, which are described in detail, are challenging and their full solution is an open problem that we pose to the community. We (i) focus on the task of tourist localization and develop the novel Masked Attention for Spatial Convolutions (MASC) mechanism that allows for grounding tourist utterances into the guide's map, (ii) show it yields significant improvements for both emergent and natural language communication, and (iii) using this method, we establish non-trivial baselines on the full task.

What is Machine Learning that the market is adopting? Machine Learning can be defined in various ways depending on one's understanding, the author or articles referred to. In my definition, machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence. It provides the systems with the capability to grasp information; learn and act like humans. Machine Learning helps the system improve their learning over time through interactions, observations without being solely programmed.

So you've decided data science is the field for you. More and more businesses are becoming data driven, the world is increasingly becoming more connected and looks like every business will need a data science practice. So, the demand for data scientists is huge. Even better, everyone acknowledges the shortfall of talent in the industry. However, becoming a data scientist does not come easy. It needs a mix of problem solving, structured thinking, coding and various technical skills among others to be truly successful. If you are from a non-technical and non-mathematical background, there's a good chance a lot of your learning happens through books and video courses. Most of these resources don't teach you what the industry is looking for in a data scientist.

Forty percent of HR leaders believe artificial intelligence will help fill the skills gap. That's according to a new study by Learning House and Future Workplace, which surveyed 600 U.S. HR leaders. More than half of those surveyed acknowledged the skills gap and more than a third believe it's harder to fill open positions now than it was in 2017, but some critics say companies are not doing much to fix the problem. The study found that 74 percent of companies are only investing $500 per employee on learning and development. Jeremy Walsh, senior vice president of enterprise learning solutions at Learning House, said he was shocked by the low amount of money being spent on L&D.