I've read that RNNs are particularly well suited for time series predictions, especially equipped with LSTM units that can learn from past data and estimate dependence between instants. This makes me wonder: can RNNs perform estimation like conventional Kalman filters do? For example, in the case of an IMU, typically Kalman filters predict the orientations given raw data from the individual sensors. Would the RNN be able to learn the mapping between raw IMU data and filtered orientations, and predict for future timesteps? If so, it brings me to my second question: would they also be able to'learn' the parameters that model the IMU: such as bias, noise etc.?

Film director Michael Anderson is seen in this undated photo. LONDON – British director Michael Anderson, whose films included war epic "The Dam Busters" and sci-fi classic "Logan's Run," has died at age 98. Anderson's family said Sunday that he died of heart disease April 25 in Canada, at his home on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Born into a theatrical family in London in 1920, Anderson served in the army during World War II and made his feature debut in 1949 with "Private Angelo," co-directed by Peter Ustinov. His 1955 adventure "The Dam Busters" told the story of a daring wartime bombing raid on Germany's industrial heartland. Its visual flair and stirring score helped make it one of Britain's best-loved war films, and its thrilling climax helped inspire the attack on the Death Star in the first "Star Wars" movie.

Talk to Books lets you ask whole questions, and pulls up a list of responses from 100,000 books in the Google Books database. In theory, this is incredible. We know the internet is a trash can of terrible people and misinformation – a kitten clutching a cat-print edition of Mein Kampf and aggressively selling you maxi dresses. Books are portals to the greatest minds of recorded time. Why ask Jeeves when you can ask PG Wodehouse? They're sure to know more than Reddit.

I agree with the sentiment but this is also dependent on your field, since there are different cultures regarding both competition and how faculty positions are chosen and get tenured. For example, in many engineering and some physics disciplines, there is a larger tendency to publish open source or to at least put your currently reviewed / published manuscript on arxiv. In biology this tends to be less the case. The "publish or perish" culture exists here as well of course (I work in neuroscience), but it's often more intense and you frequently need to hit a quota of nature/cell/science publications in order to be considered eligible for a postdoc or faculty position. Furthermore, people are less willing to put under-review papers on (bio)arxiv since they're afraid competitors will steal the idea, replicate the results and then do some extra controls or whatever to quickly get the paper into a flashy journal.

Computers live by Murphy's Law: "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong." Which is why, at some point, your computer will freeze, or flicker, or even shut down. Most of us are comfortable using computers as long as everything is going smoothly. Maybe your old computer is just running slowly. Click here for 9 ways make an old PC run faster.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a vital tool for internet companies in China to ensure they stay on the right side of censors, following a government crackdown on online content. Baidu, operator of China's largest online search engine, has stepped up efforts to ensure search results and other content, including news or video, that it sends to users are "clean" and "decent", using the same cutting-edge technology for its ventures in autonomous driving and conversational devices. The company has used AI to identify and remove click bait and vulgar content, said chief executive Robin Li Yanhong in a conference call with analysts on Friday. "We proactively clean up indecent content and limit the volume of entertainment gossip in our news feed," Li said after the Beijing-based company posted better-than-expected revenue in the first quarter on the back of its strong advertising business. Nasdaq-listed Baidu forecast its second-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates, as advertisers continue to flock to its news aggregation service and Netflix-like video streaming service. "Upholding such product values may mean putting in greater effort to grow our users and revenue.

Firstly, I'd like to thank Lina and Stephen from LoopMe, the world's largest mobile video advertising platform, for inviting me to be this year's keynote to present the "Future of Artificial Intelligence" at the British Museum in London the other week. All in all it was an eclectic day, after an interview which you can see below, I discussed, and showed, just how far Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come in just the past four years, lifting the kimono as they say on the latest generation of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN's) and so called "Creative Machines" that are being used to innovate new products, including aircraft, clothes, other AI's, robots, software and shoes, as well as compose and compile best selling pop songs, and create scarily realistic high definition fake news clips, after which I moved onto the impact that the forthcoming so called "Quantum AI" revolution, and self-learning brain inspired Neuromorphic computers, that will pack the power of today's biggest supercomputers into a fingernail, will have on the future pace and direction of AI development. As for the remainder of the day, and the line up, it was as interesting as it was diverse. There were luminaries such as Saqib Shaikh from Microsoft who despite being legally blind has risen to fame for using his immense drive and determination to develop AI powered solutions that help disabled people everywhere better understand and navigate the world around them, as well as Alan Kelly, Ireland's "most awarded creative," and the Creative Director of Rothco, whose recent work with the Times newspaper saw him and his team use AI and speech synthesis to help them "unsilence" JFK, and allow him to finally speak the state of the union address he was going to deliver on the day of his fatal shooting in his own voice. There were also speakers and panellists like Roger Highfield, the director of the UK Science Museum who was discussing some of the latest breakthroughs he's seen in robotics and AI, such as Nvidia's recent "fake" celebrity stunt, and Chris Russell from the Alan Turning Institute who discussed his work in using AI to create better "healthcare outcomes," as well as other executives from a range of organisations, from eConsultancy to News UK, who regailed the audience with insightful facts about the state of AI in the global advertising industry.

What do you do when you're a 14-year-old who wants a computer but doesn't have one? Most of us would beg and plead with parents, the more industrious among us may attempt to save up money, but Kriti Sharma did what seemed obvious to her: she devoured tech tomes and built herself one. The 30-year-old is essentially a problem solver. Problem No 1 on her list right now is sexism in tech. Frustrated by the reinforcement of sexist ideas by bots, she created Pegg, a gender-neutral personal finance assistant.

The great transformation of media first began with Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1439. This made the written word accessible to a much larger of people than ever before. Printing gave way to books, newspapers and journals of various kinds. This was virtually the first new media invented in over 5000 years of recorded human history. Then came to great inventions in the 19th century-Photography and wireless that gave birth to newer media like cinema and Broadcasting.

Facial recognition technology is really starting to become a big deal in China. It wasn't that long ago when Chinese traffic police began using facial recognition to nab those who were violating traffic laws. Now they've taken things one step further with artificial intelligence (AI): When the facial recognition cameras catch someone jaywalking, not only will they be identified, named, and publicly shamed, they will also be sent text messages telling them what their violation is and how much the fine they have to pay will be. Based on online reports, a Shenzhen-based AI company called Intellifusion will be in charge of rolling out this "feature" of the new Shenzhen traffic system. That is, in addition to simply displaying the faces of jaywalkers on giant LED screens located at intersections, they will be working with local mobile phone carriers and social media companies in order to work out a system that will send out the jaywalking-related text messages to jaywalkers as soon as they get caught. And things can only get worse for traffic violators.