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Thursday's TV highlights: 'Great News' on NBC
Superstore The staff finds a body in the store on Halloween, prompting a variety of reactions from workers and customers. Supernatural Loretta Devine returns in her guest role as a psychic from Kansas, who turns to Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) for help after a wraith (guest star Jon Cor) murders one of her friends and may be targeting her granddaughter (guest star Clark Backo), who shares her gifts. Grey's Anatomy A flashback to war-torn 2007 Iraq fills in some important blanks about events leading up to the kidnapping of Megan (Abigail Spencer), Owen's (Kevin McKidd) younger sister, who had been missing for 10 years. Gotham Gordon and Bullock (Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue) pursue a serial killer who has been murdering cops. The Good Place Michael (Ted Danson) needs Janet's (D'Arcy Carden) help to determine the cause of a new glitch before it gets out of control.
How Absurd Do You Like Your Art? - Facts So Romantic
Some art makes a lot of sense. If we look at a painting or a photograph of a gorgeous view, its beauty feels natural. The reason for this is that the kinds of landscapes people tend to like correspond to places that would have been a good place for our ancestors to camp1: elevated, with a view of water, wildlife, and diverse flora, especially flowering and fruiting plants. But there are many popular works of art that people enjoy that are less straightforward. Music, for example, can establish patterns, and then add something unusual, perhaps a "blue note" in jazz, that only later gets resolved.
A New AI is Writing Perverse Horror Fiction
Developers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been dabbling in the arts for a while now. There's already an AI capable of composing original music -- it even has its own album -- writing film screenplays, and even painting. Now, as an early Halloween treat, the latest AI artist is aspiring to be a horror novelist. Meet Shelley AI, a deep learning algorithm that was developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and named after Victorian-era novelist Mary Shelley who penned Frankenstein. The AI was trained using stories collected from a subreddit dedicated to sharing original eerie tales.
HPE Introduces New Set of Artificial Intelligence Platforms and Services HPE Newsroom
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) today announced new purpose-built platforms and services capabilities to help companies simplify the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, with an initial focus on a key subset of AI known as deep learning. Inspired by the human brain, deep learning is typically implemented for challenging tasks such as image and facial recognition, image classification and voice recognition. To take advantage of deep learning, enterprises need a high performance compute infrastructure to build and train learning models that can manage large volumes of data to recognize patterns in audio, images, videos, text and sensor data. Many organizations lack several integral requirements to implement deep learning, including expertise and resources; sophisticated and tailored hardware and software infrastructure; and the integration capabilities required to assimilate different pieces of hardware and software to scale AI systems. "We live in a world today where we're generating copious amounts of data, and deep learning can help unleash intelligence from this data," said Pankaj Goyal, vice president, Artificial Intelligence Business, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective
When I give the dating app LoveFlutter my Twitter handle, it rewards me with a 28-axis breakdown of my personality: I'm an analytic Type A who's unsettlingly sex-focused and neurotic (99th percentile). On the sidebar where my "Personality Snapshot" is broken down in further detail, a section called "Chat-Up Advice" advises, "Do your best to avoid being negative. Get to the point quickly and don't waste their time. They may get impatient if you're moving too slowly." Loveflutter, a Twitter-themed dating app from the UK, doesn't ask me to fill out a personality survey or lengthy About Me (it caps my self-description at a cute 140 characters).
The Culture Gabfest "What If Crime Is a Response to Our Broken Society?" Edition
This week, the critics discuss the new Netflix series Mindhunter, starring Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford, an FBI agent during the early days of serial killer investigations, and parse how it differs from standard crime procedurals. Then, Chris Molanphy joins the conversation to talk about the new hit "Rockstar" by Post Malone and explore nihilism in today's hip-hop songs. Finally, the gabbers discuss Martin Scorsese's guest column in the Hollywood Reporter about Rotten Tomatoes and question the validity of his claims.
How to Develop a Deep Learning Bag-of-Words Model for Predicting Movie Review Sentiment - Machine Learning Mastery
Movie reviews can be classified as either favorable or not. The evaluation of movie review text is a classification problem often called sentiment analysis. A popular technique for developing sentiment analysis models is to use a bag-of-words model that transforms documents into vectors where each word in the document is assigned a score. In this tutorial, you will discover how you can develop a deep learning predictive model using the bag-of-words representation for movie review sentiment classification. How to Develop a Deep Learning Bag-of-Words Model for Predicting Sentiment in Movie Reviews Photo by jai Mansson, some rights reserved. The Movie Review Data is a collection of movie reviews retrieved from the imdb.com
'Honey trap' and 'selfie' added to Japan's Kojien dictionary
An updated version of the nation's most authoritative Japanese-language dictionary has added 10,000 new words, including "hanii torappu" (honey trap), "biggu mausu" (big mouth) and "karēshū" (an old person's distinctive smell), the publisher said. The Kojien dictionary was first published in 1955 by Iwanami Shoten with about 200,000 words. Since then it has become a household reference, while media outlets and other high-profile organizations often use it as the final say on a given word's meaning. Other new entries include "apuri" (app), "burakku kigyō" (exploitative firms with bad working conditions), "Isuramu-koku" (Islamic State), "LGBT," "konkatsu" (marriage hunting), "jidori" (selfie) and "diipu rāningu" (deep learning). At its peak, the publisher sold as many as 2.6 million copies of its third edition, which was published in December 1983.
Sony's Pet Project, a New Robot Dog, to Be Unleashed Soon
Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said last year at a strategy briefing that the company was developing "a robot capable of forming an emotional bond with customers, and able to grow to inspire love and affection." He told The Wall Street Journal at the time that the company might make an Aibo-like dog robot. The Nikkei newspaper reported earlier this month that Sony was targeting spring 2018 for the release of a home robot. The robot project is one of Mr. Hirai's initiatives to show that innovation is alive at the Japanese electronics maker, which was known for a string of hits going back to the transistor radio in the 1950s but has more recently focused on shoring up profitability by shrinking its portfolio. More than 100 employees are involved in Sony's robotics projects, said people familiar with them.