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Modeling sequences and temporal networks with dynamic community structures

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In evolving complex systems such as air traffic and social organizations, collective effects emerge from their many components' dynamic interactions. While the dynamic interactions can be represented by temporal networks with nodes and links that change over time, they remain highly complex. It is therefore often necessary to use methods that extract the temporal networks' large-scale dynamic community structure. However, such methods are subject to overfitting or suffer from effects of arbitrary, a priori imposed timescales, which should instead be extracted from data. Here we simultaneously address both problems and develop a principled data-driven method that determines relevant timescales and identifies patterns of dynamics that take place on networks as well as shape the networks themselves. We base our method on an arbitrary-order Markov chain model with community structure, and develop a nonparametric Bayesian inference framework that identifies the simplest such model that can explain temporal interaction data.


Data literacy in high demand; academia responds

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A new degree program at Carnegie Mellon University and an online data science training course at MIT are focused on arming those in the workforce with new skills. This complimentary document comprehensively details the elements of a strategic IT plan that are common across the board โ€“ from identifying technology gaps and risks to allocating IT resources and capabilities. You forgot to provide an Email Address. This email address doesn't appear to be valid. This email address is already registered.


Probabilistic Graphical Models 2: Inference Coursera

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About this course: Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) are a rich framework for encoding probability distributions over complex domains: joint (multivariate) distributions over large numbers of random variables that interact with each other. These representations sit at the intersection of statistics and computer science, relying on concepts from probability theory, graph algorithms, machine learning, and more. They are the basis for the state-of-the-art methods in a wide variety of applications, such as medical diagnosis, image understanding, speech recognition, natural language processing, and many, many more. They are also a foundational tool in formulating many machine learning problems. This course is the second in a sequence of three.


Introducing: Unity Machine Learning Agents โ€“ Unity Blog

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Our two previous blog entries implied that there is a role games can play in driving the development of Reinforcement Learning algorithms. As the world's most popular creation engine, Unity is at the crossroads between machine learning and gaming. It is critical to our mission to enable machine learning researchers with the most powerful training scenarios, and for us to give back to the gaming community by enabling them to utilize the latest machine learning technologies. As the first step in this endeavor, we are excited to introduce Unity Machine Learning Agents. Machine Learning is changing the way we expect to get intelligent behavior out of autonomous agents.


Udacity Launches an Online Course for Flying Car Engineers

WIRED

In the past year, flying cars have gone from LOL, to maybe a real thing, to a booming industry raking in VC cash and churning out sweet renderings of an aerial future. The chance to trigger the next great transportation revolution has drawn in big companies, like Airbus and Uber, big names, like Google's Larry Page, and naturally, a horde of startups. They all believe the proliferation of vertical takeoff and landing (or VTOL) aircraft, which combine the best features of helicopters and planes, can make traveling throughout and between cities not just faster, but maybe cheaper and greener. AI expert Sebastian Thrun thinks the idea will only climb higher, especially once these aircraft can fly themselves, and he wants to help make it happen. "I see a future where everybody flies at least once a day," he says.


Self-Driving Car 'Godfather' To Help Lyft Get Engineers, Offer Flying Car Classes

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Night driving in an autonomous vehicle designed by Udacity, an online training service that specializes in high-tech vocations. Sebastian Thrun, the original leader of Google's self-driving car project, is going to help rideshare company Lyft staff up its autonomous vehicle team with training through Udacity, his high-tech vocational service. And if robot cars weren't enough, he's creating the first academic program for those wanting to design so-called flying cars. Lyft will sponsor 400 scholarships over the next year for qualified candidates to complete Udacity's online self-driving car "nanodegree" program, which certifies them to work with companies struggling to find engineering talent in that field. Along with finding people for its new Level 5 Engineering Center, Lyft wants the scholarships help attract a more diverse range of people to work on autonomous vehicles, said Chief Strategy Officer Raj Kapoor.


Linear regression in R for Data Scientists - Udemy

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When buying any of my courses, I also give you free coupons to the rest of my courses. Just send me a message after enrolling. Pay one course, get 5!! Linear regression is the primary workhorse in statistics and data science. Its high degree of flexibility allows it to model very different problems. We will review the theory, and we will concentrate on the R applications using real world data (R is a free statistical software used heavily in the industry and academia).


Learning Path:TensorFlow: The Road to TensorFlow-2nd Edition

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Packt's Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it. It can be hard to get started with machine learning, particularly as new frameworks like TensorFlow start to gain traction across enterprise companies. TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API. This Learning Path begins by covering a mastery on Python with a deep focus on unlocking Python's secrets.


Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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AWS offers a family of intelligent services that provide cloud-native machine learning and deep learning technologies to address your different use cases and needs. For developers looking to add managed AI services to their applications, AWS brings natural language understanding (NLU) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) with Amazon Lex, visual search and image recognition with Amazon Rekognition, text-to-speech (TTS) with Amazon Polly, and developer-focused machine learning with Amazon Machine Learning. For more in-depth deep learning applications, the AWS Deep Learning AMI lets you run deep learning in the cloud, at any scale. Launch instances of the AMI, pre-installed with open source deep learning engines (Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, Theano, Torch and Keras), to train sophisticated, custom AI models, experiment with new algorithms, and learn new deep learning skills and techniques; all backed by auto-scaling clusters of GPU-based instances. Whether you're just getting started with AI or you're a deep learning expert, this session will provide a meaningful overview of how to improve scale and efficiency with the AWS Cloud.


Arguments for the Effectiveness of Human Problem Solving

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The question of how humans solve problem has been addressed extensively. However, the direct study of the effectiveness of this process seems to be overlooked. In this paper, we address the issue of the effectiveness of human problem solving: we analyze where this effectiveness comes from and what cognitive mechanisms or heuristics are involved. Our results are based on the optimal probabilistic problem solving strategy that appeared in Solomonoff paper on general problem solving system. We provide arguments that a certain set of cognitive mechanisms or heuristics drive human problem solving in the similar manner as the optimal Solomonoff strategy. The results presented in this paper can serve both cognitive psychology in better understanding of human problem solving processes as well as artificial intelligence in designing more human-like agents.