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Detroit: Become Human review – meticulous multiverse of interactive fiction
With a gargantuan 4,000-page script, it is a near-miracle that Detroit: Become Human manages to tell a single coherent story at all. Gradual, ever-developing and interwoven tales lead towards a myriad of endings. So vast is the scope of this mammoth work of interactive fiction that each person who plays it may have a close to unique experience. Indeed, the way that the story bends and morphs around the player is much more interesting than the story itself. Decisions have weight: do you pursue a rogue android across a busy highway, or let it escape?
[D] What makes variational dropout so popular for neural networks? • r/MachineLearning
Getting uncertainty is an important topic for neural networks. I, and many others, think that variational inference is the way forward. It seems that the most popular approach is to use a Bernoulli distribution for approximation. This follows mainly from the work of Yarin Gal, who shows that the Bernoulli approximation amounts to doing dropout. Another simple approximation is the Gaussian approximation.
Feds: Uber Self-Driving SUV Saw Pedestrian; Did Not Brake
The NTSB report comes a day after Uber pulled its self-driving cars out of Arizona, eliminating the jobs of about 300 people who served as backup drivers and performed other jobs connected to the vehicles. Uber had suspended testing of its self-driving vehicles in Arizona, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto while regulators investigated the cause of the March 18 crash.
VR Is Waiting For It's AOL Moment
You've probably forgotten how hard it was to operate a personal computer in 1994. It's possible you were little or hadn't been born yet. Outside of the Mac was a terrifying mess. Windows version 3.0 was text-based (command/prompt). Early Internet users needed a combination of programs to get onto the web.
PS4 exclusive 'Detroit' is a flawed depiction of race in America
Detroit: Become Human begins with a warning: "This is not a story, this is our future." Writer-director David Cage's follow-up to Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls weaves a tale about robots attempting to transcend their programming. But rather being a thoughtful, philosophical examination of consciousness, Detroit, instead, is a tone-deaf look at race. In Cage's fictional future, the golden age of leisure that androids were supposed to unlock for humanity didn't happen. Instead, it's 2038, and a third of the US is out of work because robots took over the jobs typically done by blue-collar humans.
Announcing the Netflix Research Website – Netflix TechBlog – Medium
We're pleased to announce that we've launched a new website at research.netflix.com We have many amazing researchers working on a variety of hard problems and are happy to share some of our work with the world. Netflix embraces innovation and has been investing in research to power that innovation for many years. This started with an early focus in areas like recommendations and experimentation but has now expanded to several other research areas and application domains in our business including studio production, marketing, and content delivery. To maximize the impact of our research, we do not centralize research into a separate organization.
Netflix Data Science Interview Questions -- Acing the AI Interview
My AI Interview Questions articles for Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, Uber, LinkedIn have been very helpful to the readers. As a followup, next couple of articles were on how to prepare for these interviews split into two parts, Part 1and Part 2. If you want to find suggestions on how to showcase your AI work please visit Acing AI Portfolios. For Career Insights check out the interview I did with Jesse. To maximize the impact of their research, Netflix does not centralize research into a separate organization. Instead, they have many teams that pursue research in collaboration with business teams, engineering teams, and other researchers.
Dear Elon Musk: Stop spreading fake news
Elon Musk, a billionaire playboy whose parents weren't murdered in front of him outside of a theater (yet still seems to think he's Batman), today stopped rocketing cars at the sky long enough to rage-tweet his displeasure with journalists' criticisms of Tesla. As best we can tell, it all started when Elon tweeted an article from a news source that quoted someone saying "despite" media negativity, Tesla could "rally." The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them https://t.co/Ay2DwCOMkr It's happening, Join 15k digital minds to shape what's next for your business If the public doesn't respect us for publishing negativity towards your company, then they don't want the truth. For starters, it's time for Musk and company to reconsider the idea of calling its driver assistance technology "Autopilot."
National Bank Manuel Morales Artificial Intelligence
National Bank is pleased to announce that Manuel Morales will join its team in the position of Chief Scientist, Artificial Intelligence. The main task of this accomplished researcher from the Université de Montréal will be to head the research and implementation of technological solutions in the area of artificial intelligence at National Bank in order to improve customer experience. Manuel Morales is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal. He has received several awards for his applied research in machine learning, and has contributed to the publication of numerous articles in this field. Mr. Morales will devote half of his time to National Bank, while pursuing his role at the university.