We are pleased to announce the open-source launch of Polynote: a new, polyglot notebook with first-class Scala support, Apache Spark integration, multi-language interoperability including Scala, Python, and SQL, as-you-type autocomplete, and more. Polynote provides data scientists and machine learning researchers with a notebook environment that allows them the freedom to seamlessly integrate our JVM-based ML platform -- which makes heavy use of Scala -- with the Python ecosystem's popular machine learning and visualization libraries. It has seen substantial adoption among Netflix's personalization and recommendation teams, and it is now being integrated with the rest of our research platform. At Netflix, we have always felt strongly about sharing with the open source community, and believe that Polynote has a great potential to address similar needs outside of Netflix. Polynote promotes notebook reproducibility by design.

Terminator: Dark Fate producer James Cameron reveals that future films in the franchise would focus on artificial intelligence. The sixth movie in the Terminator series, Dark Fate executes a radical do-over by ignoring the events of Terminator 3, Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys and acting as a direct sequel to 1992's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the last film in the series that enjoyed Cameron's personal involvement. The "Judgment Day" concept indeed looms large in Dark Fate, as Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor returns to again try to prevent the machines from taking over the world. This time, Connor meets up with a pair of fellow female warriors, Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) and Grace (Mackenzie Davis), the latter of whom is a human/cyborg hybrid sent back from the future. Of course, there's also a new Terminator, the menacing Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna), which has the ability to split into two separate autonomous killing machines.

Tinder's interactive choose-your-own-adventure series will expand to users globally after a successful roll out. According to a report from CNN, the dating service's first-ever foray into pre-recorded content, called'Swipe Night', translated to a 26 percent increase in matches over a typical Sunday night with a 12 percent increase in messages. The company reportedly plans to expand outside of the US to all of its users across the globe starting February 2020. The series, which'aired' on the app this month, allows users to match with other dating hopefuls by clicking their way through an interactive narrative. It's designed to match users based on the choices they make during a short'first-person apocalyptic adventure.'

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"Machine learning is the biggest misnomer in the world. We start out by estimating all the parameters in the model.

BERT is now the go-to model framework for NLP tasks in industry, in about a year after it was published by Google AI. When released, it achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of NLP benchmarks. It's referred to as a framework because BERT is not a model per se, but in the words of the authors themselves, it is a "method of pre-training language representations, meaning that we train a general-purpose "language understanding" model on a large text corpus (like Wikipedia), and then use that model for downstream NLP tasks that we care about (like question answering)." For the purpose of this blogpost, when we refer to a BERT model, we mean a model based on the BERT architecture and fine tuned for a particular task using pre-trained weights. Several papers have attempted to explain it, and created a field that the people at HuggingFace call Bertology .

My Ally, the world's only Talent Lifecycle Management (TLM) software provider for fast-growth companies and enterprise businesses, will be showcasing the Artificial Intelligence enabled Source-to-Retain platform at the Gartner ReimagineHR Conference, taking place October 28-30, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. As Talent Acquisition and HR Teams continue to report pains associated with finding, hiring, and onboarding the best talent quickly, the costs for these critical functions in organizations continue to rise. The Society for Human Resource Management states that the average cost to hire an employee in the United States is $4,129, with an average of about 42 days to fill a position. "We started My Ally with the vision of transforming the way companies all over the world discover, hire, and retain talent," said Deepti Yenireddy, CEO and Founder of My Ally. "We know there is a lot of efficiencies and improvements that AI can offer, and we believe Human Resources should be leaders in ushering in the AI assistants and bots to their organizations. We believe AI needs HR, not the other way around."

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