The People First Social Network Gab What is Gab? gab?ab/ informal verb talk, typically at length, about trivial matters. Gab is a people first social network-Users can post "Gabs," which have a 300 character limit-Users can follow other Gabbers and be followed back-Users can upvote or downvote Gabs-Top Gabs are ranked based on these votes-Gabs are also displayed in a chronological home feed, something that is no longer a defau... Rose Behar August 15, 2016 4:56pm In an expansive interview with the Washington Post, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened up about a number of personal and professional subjects, from the importance of his public coming out to why he believes analysts are wrong that Apple has nowhere left to grow. In response to media reports that a first information report has been registered against Amnesty International (AI) India over organizing an event on rights violations in Kashmir, a statement issued by the AI today said it is yet to receive the copy of the FIR.

The People First Social Network Gab What is Gab? gab?ab/ informal verb talk, typically at length, about trivial matters. Gab is a people first social network-Users can post "Gabs," which have a 300 character limit-Users can follow other Gabbers and be followed back-Users can upvote or downvote Gabs-Top Gabs are ranked based on these votes-Gabs are also displayed in a chronological home feed, something that is no longer a defau... Rose Behar August 15, 2016 4:56pm In an expansive interview with the Washington Post, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened up about a number of personal and professional subjects, from the importance of his public coming out to why he believes analysts are wrong that Apple has nowhere left to grow. Perhaps most interesting for Apple product enthusiasts was his admissions about what he sees as core technologies of the future, namely AI and augmented reality. In explaining why he believes mobile "is the grea... An Elon Musk-backed artificial intelligence research group just got a brand new toy from chip maker Nvidia.

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to the crowd as takes the stage at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California, onJune 13, 2016. SAN FRANCISCO – Tim Cook described his role at the helm of the world's most valuable technology company as "lonely." Reflecting on his five years in the role, Apple's CEO said the constant scrutiny of his every decision – by media, analysts, investors and consumers – has forced him to develop a thicker skin. His comments were part of a 10,000-word interview with The Washington Post Monday. "It's sort of a lonely job," he said.

In June 2016 Ravi Mody and Tim Schmeier gave a presentation at the NYC Machine Learning meetup to discuss their work on the data science team at iHeartRadio. This is the first in a three part article complementing the presentation. Like almost everyone who grew up in the 80s/90s, my music discovery followed a familiar pattern: I'd listen to the radio, talk to my friends about what they're listening to, then buy a CD/tape to play on repeat until everyone around me was sick of it. This worked fine for most people, but as a music lover I'm thankful it seems so foreign today -- the internet has completely transformed the way I interact with music. While I still often listen to the radio, I now use my phone to tune into any of thousands of stations from across the country.

Apple and Intel acquired machine learning startups. Palantir purchased a data visualization startup. AWS rolled out an analytics service for streaming real-time data. We've got all this and more in our Big Data Roundup for the week ending August 14, 2016. The company acquired Turi, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning startup, in a deal reportedly worth 200 million.

Preacher's Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are teaming up with Silicon Valley's Sonny Lee to write and develop a sitcom about artificial intelligence in the not too distant future for FX. The show, Singularity, will focus on a world where artificial intelligence's capabilities greatly surpass those of the human race and how that affects every aspect of culture. While the premise of the series sounds entirely sci-fi, Lee told The Hollywood Reporter that like Silicon Valley there will be a level of satire that the show brings to the concept. Lee specifically reached out to Goldberg and Rogen because of how similar the tone of his show is to their apocalyptic comedy, This Is The End, which was released two years ago. The magazine reported that Lee, Goldberg and Rogen landed the deal with FX, but the show received multiple bids from a variety of networks.

Is it possible that the secret to building machine intelligence lies in spending endless hours reading Reddit? That's one question a team of researchers at OpenAI, a nonprofit backed by several Silicon Valley luminaries, hopes to answer with a new kind of supercomputer developed by chipmaker Nvidia. The researchers are also training robots do the dishes through experimentation, and they are building algorithms capable of learning to play a wide variety of different computer games. The new machine, called a DGX-1, is optimized for the form of machine learning known as deep learning, which involves feeding data to a large network of crudely simulated neurons and has resulted in great strides in artificial intelligence in recent years. The DGX-1 will let AI researchers train deep-learning systems more quickly using more data.

The musician: Since Mohr was discovered by Canadian producer Hawksley Workman, the singer/guitarist and her hard-rocking Toronto outfit the Mohrs have performed alongside Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction and Walk Off the Earth. Her style: Mohr gave the humble little hummable its most complete treatment, with hard-strummed acoustic guitar, smoky vocals and actual lyrics (!) combining to create a single that could actually slide quite comfortably into alt-rock radio. "I just tried to open it up with some bigger chords and make it a little more rockish," she explained. The verdict: "It was catchy in moments, but it was a little convoluted for my liking. . . . It's like asking a computer to write poetry just because it knows all the words in the world. It's lacking the things that make music so beautiful, which is vulnerability, emotion."

Netflix spent 1 million for a machine learning and data mining competition called Netflix Prize to improve movie recommendations by crowdsourced solutions, but couldn't use the winning solution for their production system in the end. This white paper takes a closer look at the real-life issues Netflix faced and highlights key considerations when developing production machine learning systems.

Machine learning is at the core of many recent advances in science and technology. With computers beating professionals in games like Go, many people have started asking if machines would also make for better drivers or even better doctors. In many applications of machine learning, users are asked to trust a model to help them make decisions. A doctor will certainly not operate on a patient simply because "the model said so." Even in lower-stakes situations, such as when choosing a movie to watch from Netflix, a certain measure of trust is required before we surrender hours of our time based on a model.