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Algorithmic Thinking (Part 1) Coursera
About this course: Experienced Computer Scientists analyze and solve computational problems at a level of abstraction that is beyond that of any particular programming language. This two-part course builds on the principles that you learned in our Principles of Computing course and is designed to train students in the mathematical concepts and process of "Algorithmic Thinking", allowing them to build simpler, more efficient solutions to real-world computational problems. In part 1 of this course, we will study the notion of algorithmic efficiency and consider its application to several problems from graph theory. As the central part of the course, students will implement several important graph algorithms in Python and then use these algorithms to analyze two large real-world data sets. The main focus of these tasks is to understand interaction between the algorithms and the structure of the data sets being analyzed by these algorithms.
Deep Learning: Recurrent Neural Networks in Python
Like the course I just released on Hidden Markov Models, Recurrent Neural Networks are all about learning sequences - but whereas Markov Models are limited by the Markov assumption, Recurrent Neural Networks are not - and as a result, they are more expressive, and more powerful than anything we've seen on tasks that we haven't made progress on in decades. So what's going to be in this course and how will it build on the previous neural network courses and Hidden Markov Models? In the first section of the course we are going to add the concept of time to our neural networks. I'll introduce you to the Simple Recurrent Unit, also known as the Elman unit. We are going to revisit the XOR problem, but we're going to extend it so that it becomes the parity problem - you'll see that regular feedforward neural networks will have trouble solving this problem but recurrent networks will work because the key is to treat the input as a sequence.
Practical Machine Learning Coursera
About this course: One of the most common tasks performed by data scientists and data analysts are prediction and machine learning. This course will cover the basic components of building and applying prediction functions with an emphasis on practical applications. The course will provide basic grounding in concepts such as training and tests sets, overfitting, and error rates. The course will also introduce a range of model based and algorithmic machine learning methods including regression, classification trees, Naive Bayes, and random forests. The course will cover the complete process of building prediction functions including data collection, feature creation, algorithms, and evaluation.
ElasticSearch and Lucene for Apache Spark and MLib
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is released as open source under the terms of the Apache License. Official clients are available in Java, .NET (C#), Python, Groovy and many other languages. Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine followed by Apache Solr, also based on Lucene.
Getting Started with Java Deep Learning - Udemy
AI and deep learning are transforming the way we understand software, making computers more intelligent than we could even imagine just a decade ago. It is the technology behind self-driven cars, intelligent personal assistant computers, and decision support systems. Deep learning algorithms are being used across a broad range of industries. As the fundamental driver of AI, being able to tackle deep learning with Java is going to be a vital and valuable skill, not only within the tech world, but also for the wider global economy that depends upon knowledge and insight for growth and success. You will learn how to install the environment, where Git is used as version control, Eclipse or IntelliJ as an IDE, and mostly Gradle with a little bit of Maven as a build tool.
New Draft Principles of AI Ethics Proposed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Election Hijacking by Secret AIs Posing as Real People
One of the activities of AI-Ethics.com is to monitor and report on the work of all groups that are writing draft principles to govern the future legal regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Many have been proposed to date. Click here to go to the AI-Ethics Draft Principles page. If you know of a group that has articulated draft principles not reported on our page, please let me know. At this point all of the proposed principles are works in progress.
A New Learning Paradigm for Random Vector Functional-Link Network: RVFL+
ECENTLY, Vapnik and Vashist [1] provided a new learning paradigm termed learning using privileged information (LUPI), which is aimed at enhancing the generalization performance of learning algorithms. Generally speaking, in classical supervised learning paradigm, the training data and test data must come from the same distribution. Although in this new learning paradigm the training data is also considered an unbiased representation for the test data, the LUPI provides a set of additional information for the training data during the training stage, which is called privileged information. In the LUPI paradigm, we use the new training set containing privileged information to train a learning algorithm, while the privileged information is not available in the test stage. We note that the new learning paradigm is analogous to human learning process. In class, a teacher can provide some important and helpful information about this course for students, and these information provided by the teacher can help students acquire knowledge better. Therefore, a teacher plays an essential role in human leaning process. The LUPI paradigm resembling the classroom teaching model can achieve better generalization performance than the traditional learning paradigm. The author is with Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, School of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 999077, China.(Email:
Best Data Science, Machine Learning Courses from Udemy (only $12 until Sep 20)
Here is a list of the best courses in Data Science and Machine Learning from Udemy. With the back-to-school sale, you can get these and other Udemy courses for $12, 90-95% off original price. Udemy.com is an online marketplace for learning, their data science content is updated regularly by the instructors who created good courses (filled with actionable tools) and bite-size lessons that help you cover defined topics at your own pace. Ready to be thrown into the deep end and learn the real problems a data scientist faces on a daily basis? Data Science management consultant Kirill Eremenko teaches this intense, best-selling course to over 23K students and counting.
Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Coursera
This five-course accelerated specialization is designed for data professionals who are responsible for designing, building, analyzing, and optimizing big data solutions. Through a combination of video lectures, quizzes, and hands-on labs, you'll learn how to carry out serverless data analysis and productionize machine learning models. This specialization is designed to give participants a robust hands-on experience and is primarily lab-focused. Learn how to deliver business value with Big Data and Machine Learning Solutions on Google Cloud Platform. To get up to speed quickly, follow the courses in this specialization.