I figured I should just do it when the timing is right and realize my dream. If I realize my dream, I will have no regrets in life,

In 2008, international financial and banking markets were hit by the economic crisis, which was the result of bursting the so called credit bubble. The title "Decision Tree" is a mechanism, which was for many years, successfully used for determining creditworthiness. The movie tells the story of a group of specialists who notice that banks stopped acting according to the procedures, and are giving out loans to people, who have no chance of paying them back. "Do you have a loan?" and "Did you have any problems in paying the loan installments in the last 12 months?" User review: You will use Decision Trees, when you will be looking for a new car.

I do not have a head for it, but I do have love for it. Practically, I profit from it; philosophically, I endorse it.; Curiosity, inquiry and a willingness to be proved wrong, to bow to the better explanation when it comes along -- these are tonics against the inflexible fundamentalism, the epidemic unthinking, that makes the world a shakier place. And so I have been taking comfort and inspiration from what seems to be a great flowering of science-themed programming, much of it on the Internet, where subjects that mainstream commercial television dubs "not for everyone" may take root and flourish. Apart from PBS, home to "Nova" and "Nature," and some dedicated (or half-dedicated) cable networks like National Geographic Channel, Science and Discovery, television tends to like its science fictional. And while science fiction is a known gateway to a career in serious science and can be similarly stimulating, the workings of the nonfictional universe are more profoundly exciting and all the more amazing for being, you know, real.

Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day. Unlike most, however, Ma has realised his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home. The fruit of his labors of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than 50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modelled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone. Ma's journey of creation was a lonely one, however.

Microsoft has quietly announced a few early partners that plan to bring their Windows 10 apps to the Xbox One. In a press release from its 2016 Build developers conference, Microsoft mentioned that Nickelodeon, Dailymotion, NASCAR, and Hulu will launch Xbox versions of their Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps later this year. All four partners already offer apps in the Windows Store, and all but Nickelodeon have upgraded to universal Windows 10 apps, which is supposed to make for an easy transition to Xbox. While Hulu already offers a native app for the Xbox One, the Windows 10 version is more powerful, with support for playing videos through "Hey Cortana" voice commands. A similar feature seems likely for the Xbox One when Cortana heads to the console as part of this summer's "Anniversary Update."

As other people pointed out, PCFGs can express all probabilistic pushdown automata, while HMMs can express all probabilistic finite state automata. So there are things which PCFGs can model (like recursion) which HMMs can't. On the other hand it's pretty difficult to induce PCFGs from data with EM, as the latent variable space is really huge, while for HMMs this is easy. You can think of a PCFG as a hierarchical HMM in the following way. To generate observations from an HMM you start from the initial state and use the transition probabilities to sample the next state, and then use the state's emission probability to sample a symbol, until the next state sampled is the end of sequence state.

Want to inject some color to your photographs in a hurry? Well, new software can take an alarmingly good guess at what a color version of your black-and-white photographs may look like. Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new computer vision system that takes a grayscale image and then adds color to it in a way that looks convincing to humans. That careful description is important: It doesn't necessarily choose the right colors, merely ones that look plausible. It uses what's known as a convolutional neural network to perform its party trick, having been trained on a set of over a million color images.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamt of building his own one day. Unlike most of the others, however, Ma has realized his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home. The fruit of his labors of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than 50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modeled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programed verbal commands spoken into a microphone. "I figured I should just do it when the timing is right and realize my dream. If I realize my dream, I will have no regrets in life," said Ma, who had to learn about fields completely new to him before he could build the complex gadget.

Lucasfilm screencapWho knew Han was so self-conscious? One of IBM Watson's many talents is analyzing personality traits by looking at written text. The supercomputer assesses traits based on the popular Big Five test, which rates subjects for extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. It can also identify different tones such as fear, joy, confidence, and openness. These skills have been used to do everything from assist customer service agents in analyzing how their phone calls went to providing dating tips. We tested out Watson last week on the "Harry Potter" universe and were wowed by its conclusions.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple 40 years ago. On Friday, Apple reaches a major milestone in its history, celebrating 40 years since it was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was a long road to becoming one of the world's biggest tech names, nearly reaching the edge of a financial collapse before Jobs returned to save the company and launch arguably its most important products. On Apple's 40th birthday, we look back at the 40 biggest moments in company history: While hanging out together as part of the Homebrew Computer Club, the two friends formed Apple from Jobs' garage. "We first met during my college years, while he was in high school," Wozniak said in a 2007 interview with ABC News.