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r/fantasyfootball - Machine learning FLEX PPR projections

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I submitted python generated projections earlier in the week. These projections were made by taking the player's mean and adjusting it by a constant for opponents previously faced and the upcoming opponent. After the three games on Thanksgiving I calculated my projections were actually less accurate than just using the players season mean. I decided in order to make the projections more accurate I would try implementing a machine learning setup. For training data I again used Pro Football Reference and CBS's positional data.


The Ugandan data scientist curing our fear of artificial intelligence

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Many people are afraid of artificial intelligence and how it could change the world. They're afraid of robots taking our jobs, companies infringing our privacy and even intelligent machines turning against us and wiping out humanity โ€“ a la SkyNet, the computer system gone rogue in Terminator. But Mike Bugembe, a data scientist, consultant and author, is on a mission to show how data can have a positive social and financial impact on organisations. As the former chief of analytics at JustGiving, he developed a series of algorithms that resulted in over ยฃ20m in extra donations in just a year and was later part of the team that sold the company for ยฃ95m. He told The Independent: "We live in an increasingly machine-driven world. So you've got to understand how this stuff works and future-proof your organisation. I love the fact that I can remove that fear people have of AI and I can help them really see the value of it and become excited about it. I help leaders understand how they can be part of the picture instead of being replaced by machines."


Not All Attention Is Needed: Gated Attention Network for Sequence Data

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Although deep neural networks generally have fixed network structures, the concept of dynamic mechanism has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Attention mechanisms compute input-dependent dynamic attention weights for aggregating a sequence of hidden states. Dynamic network configuration in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) selectively activates only part of the network at a time for different inputs. In this paper, we combine the two dynamic mechanisms for text classification tasks. Traditional attention mechanisms attend to the whole sequence of hidden states for an input sentence, while in most cases not all attention is needed especially for long sequences. We propose a novel method called Gated Attention Network (GA-Net) to dynamically select a subset of elements to attend to using an auxiliary network, and compute attention weights to aggregate the selected elements. It avoids a significant amount of unnecessary computation on unattended elements, and allows the model to pay attention to important parts of the sequence. Experiments in various datasets show that the proposed method achieves better performance compared with all baseline models with global or local attention while requiring less computation and achieving better interpretability. It is also promising to extend the idea to more complex attention-based models, such as transformers and seq-to-seq models.


'Pre-Crime' AI Is Driving 'Industrial-Scale Human Rights Abuses' In China's Xinjiang Province - Slashdot

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Long-time Slashdot reader clawsoon writes: Among Sunday's releases from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on leaked Chinese documents about the detention of Xinjiang Uighurs -- which they are calling the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority since World War II -- is a section on detention by algorithm which "is more than a'pre-crime' platform, but a'machine-learning, artificial intelligence (AI), command and control' platform that substitutes artificial intelligence for human judgment...." "The Chinese have bought into a model of policing where they believe that through the collection of large-scale data run through AI and machine learning that they can, in fact, predict ahead of time where possible incidents might take place, as well as identify possible populations that have the propensity to engage in anti-state anti-regime action," reports James Mulvenon, director of intelligence integration at SOS International LLC, an intelligence and information technology contractor for several U.S. government agencies. "And then they are preemptively going after those people using that data." The Chinese government responded by calling the leaked documents "fake news."


Nine women scientists who are doing phenomenal work

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Sarawagi is one of the foremost figures in the fields of data mining and machine learning in India, and is the recipient of this year's $100,000 Infosys โ€ฆ


Lisk Machine Learning Price Changed by 1.22 percent

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As at 2019-11-30 average Lisk Machine Learning price is 0.01274293 USD, 0.00000167 BTC, 0.00008264 ETH. It's noteworthy that is issued into โ€ฆ



Decentralized Machine Learning Price Changed by -6.79 percent

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As at 2019-11-30 average Decentralized Machine Learning price is 0.00031987 USD, 0.00000004 BTC, 0.00000207 ETH.



Are Agri-Tech Start-Ups in India Able To Raise Funds?

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Mumbai-based FreshVnF uses machine learning to connect farmers with hotels and restaurants in what is a farm-to-fork model.