Education
How AI & Chatbots Are Changing Education Worldwide
Is the FHE teaching capability and capacity improving as fast as it should? Some of our knowledge about teaching and learning go back to Greek times and still hold true. But that is not to say that more recent research and technology should be ignored. It is generally accepted that Moore's Law is about the doubling of digital capacity every couple of years (the original Law actually talked about transistor capacity). Although not directly linked to the teaching, the curriculum or success rates, there are perhaps a few lessons that can be taken from the way that improvements and growth in the digital world impacts our ability to make teaching more effective.
Robotics, artificial intelligence in PG syllabus Kochi NYOOOZ
Some of the niche subjects that will find place in the new syllabus include robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation. Students enrolling for postgraduate programmes offered by Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) from the 2018-19 academic year have something to cheer about. The varsity had carried out syllabus and curriculum revision for its undergraduate courses in the academic year 2017-18. The syllabus revision will also take into account the research possibilities that students could undertake after postgraduation," he said. The revision of syllabus for postgraduate programmes was previously carried out in 2012.
This Week in AI, February 15th, 2018 โ Udacity Inc โ Medium
Alex Irpan, a software engineer at Google, wrote an excellent article on the current difficulties of getting deep reinforcement learning to work. For example, even after weeks of optimizing hyperparameters and explotation-exploration rates, these models are still highly sensitive to initial conditions. A 30% failure rate is seen as "working." Irpan makes the argument that most attempts with deep RL fail but no one talks about it publicly, we only see the few cases where the problems are simplified enough to be feasible. This is still a new field - the breakthrough Atari DQN paper was published only 3 years ago - so there is plenty of room for more research and advancement.
AICTE To Give Credits For New Tech Subjects Like AI, Robotics, ML, IoT
For the first time in India, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has given up to 20 credits for subjects like artificial intelligence, internet of things, machine learning and robotics. In December 2017, the AICTE had revised the curriculum for the four year undergraduate (BTech) program. AI, robotics and IoT had been made mandatory from academic year 2018-19. In a move which is being clearly welcomed by academicians as well as students, over 80 percent of all the technical and engineering colleges in India have agreed to follow the new curriculum as well as the grading system. Now, this new move by AICTE is being hailed by everyone as the students are hoping to get better placements, and employers are expecting to hire more industry-relevant workforce.
Black-Box Reductions for Parameter-free Online Learning in Banach Spaces
Cutkosky, Ashok, Orabona, Francesco
We introduce several new black-box reductions that significantly improve the design of adaptive and parameter-free online learning algorithms by simplifying analysis, improving regret guarantees, and sometimes even improving runtime. We reduce parameter-free online learning to online exp-concave optimization, we reduce optimization in a Banach space to one-dimensional optimization, and we reduce optimization over a constrained domain to unconstrained optimization. All of our reductions run as fast as online gradient descent. We use our new techniques to improve upon the previously best regret bounds for parameter-free learning, and do so for arbitrary norms.
pranavsuri/Artificial-Intelligence-Nanodegree
This repository contains the projects completed as a part of Udacity's Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree. In this project, an extension of a Sudoku solving agent is developed. The project is capable of solving any Classic or Diagonal Sudoku puzzle using three ideas: Constraint Propagation, Search (DFS) and Naked-Twins Strategy. This game-playing agent uses techniques such as Iterative Deepening, Minimax, and Alpha-Beta Pruning to compete in the game of Isolation (a two-player discrete competitive game with perfect information). The different heuristics used are then compared to find the best heuristic.
Top 15 Deep Learning Software in 2018
Deep Learning Software: Deep Learning is a branch of machine learning for learning about multiple levels of representation and abstraction to make sense of the data such as images, sound, and text. It is a set of algorithms in machine learning which typically uses artificial neural networks to learn in multiple levels, corresponding to different levels of abstraction. The levels in these learned statistical models correspond to distinct levels of concepts, where higher level concepts are defined from lower level ones, and the same lower level concepts can help to define many higher level concepts. Deep learning architectures are Deep neural networks, Deep belief networks, Convolutional neural networks, Convolutional Deep Belief Networks, Deep Boltzmann Machines, Stacked Auto Encoders, Deep Stacking Networks, Tensor Deep Stacking Networks (T-DSN), Spike-and-Slab RBMs (ssRBMs), Compound Hierarchical-Deep Models, Deep Coding Networks and Deep Kernel Machines. Deep Learning applications are automatic speech recognition, image recognition and natural language processing.
Breakfast Briefing: SpaceX Broadband, the HomePod & Munger Speaks
SpaceX is now a step closer to launching broadband-powering satellites into orbit. Editor's Remarks: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the agency would approve SpaceX's application to leverage satellite technology to provide broadband to the US and wider world. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said that the opportunity would help remove the US' digital divide and bring online rural parts of the country that are still without reliable internet. SpaceX declined to give an immediate statement regarding the progress but previous releases show that the company wants to launch 4,425 satellites that will form a constellation 800 miles above the Earth. Apple's latest offering costs $216 to build, giving it a lower margin than the company's other goods.
Unsupervised Deep Learning in Python Udemy
This course is the next logical step in my deep learning, data science, and machine learning series. I've done a lot of courses about deep learning, and I just released a course about unsupervised learning, where I talked about clustering and density estimation. So what do you get when you put these 2 together? In these course we'll start with some very basic stuff - principal components analysis (PCA), and a popular nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique known as t-SNE (t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding). Next, we'll look at a special type of unsupervised neural network called the autoencoder.