You might have noticed a comment was made on the first article in this series: I didn't mention the'why' as a KSF in bringing home a machine learning project. And it's true, forgetting the why is a serious problem. As the commenter noted: Unless there's a why and a businessperson involved, all you've got is a handicapped specialty group who have been given tools, but not told what to do with them. So here's my amended list of KSFs for a machine learning project: The why is the business reason for the project. It's rarely as exciting or motivating as the technology involved. But it pays the bills.

Back in high school, when I was being counseled on where to put my energy as I transitioned into college, many adults scoffed at the art degree I wanted. My grades were weighted with APs and I loved school, so my GPA was actually more than a 4.0. Adults argued that I could certainly find something more practical and lucrative with my grades; they treated art as something expendable, a last resort. That's not what art is at all. Now, more than a decade later, I am so glad that I got two degrees in art.

Machine Learning is the latest buzzword floating around. It deserves this popularity bacause it is one of the most interesting and most wanted sub-domains of Computer Science. By definition, Machine learning is considered a subset of Artificial Intelligence, which provides machines with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Industry experts are predicting that the combination of Machine learning and hence AI and Internet of Things (IoT) will be the new technological era setter and the businesses, startups, governments etc. will invest huge numbers in the same. Let's understand Machine Learning in Laymen's terms.

As deep learning is gaining in popularity, creative applications are gaining traction as well. Looking at music generation through deep learning, new algorithms and songs are popping up on a weekly basis. In this post we will go over six major players in the field, and point out some difficult challenges these systems still face. GitHub links are provided for those who are interested in the technical details (or if you're looking to generate some music of your own). Magenta is Google's open source deep learning music project.

AI is slowly seeping into our lives in profound ways. The way we think about AI is coloured by popular culture and science fiction. Many feel that if they could make that science fiction real then we wouldn't have to worry about messy kinds of stuff in society. My concern is not about the singularity that experts like Ray Kurzweil have talked about in his book Singularity Is Near nor Hollywood movies like Transcendence, which paint a dystopian view of a future transformed by AI. The human brain is a remarkable piece of engineering and fears that AI might take over human brain is not imminent.

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Apple's new HomePod speaker, coming at the end of the year, has deep rich sound that blows the Amazon Echo and Google Home out of the water. Apple developers debuted their new home device which features Siri and Apple Music at the WWDC Conference in San Francisco, California. After spending time listening to several songs on the HomePod here at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference here, I, was wowed. But that doesn't mean Apple will have an easy time of it. Sales of high-end audio have never been a consumer electronics topper.

On Monday, Apple previewed a Siri watch face on Apple Watch to offer reminders and other tasks people might be looking for. On the phone, Apple wants its digital assistant to be more helpful in navigating your digital life. If someone texts you about owing money, for instance, it will ask if you want to pay from your Apple Pay account.

In one of its most jam-packed events ever, Apple made a slew of announcements during its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. Some involved incremental changes to hardware and software, while others provided a glimpse at where Apple believes the future of computing is headed. As per usual, Apple dedicated a significant portion of its WWDC keynote to the new software features coming to the iPhone and iPad. In iOS 11, iPhone owners will be getting a new Venmo-style option for sending money to friends via Apple Pay, a redesigned control center, a refreshed Apple Music app with more social features, a new Siri with a natural-sounding voice, and an improved Do Not Disturb feature designed to prevent distracted driving, among other additions. Apple also announced camera improvements, including more photo effects like long exposure mode and upgrades for better low-light photography.

Apple introduced the HomePod, its rival to Amazon's Echo, at the 2017 WWDC. Apple HomePod speaker, announced at Apple's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, 2017. SAN JOSE -- Apple has set its sights on the living room, with a voice-activated $349 speaker called the HomePod that leverages personal digital-assistant Siri and stresses its functionality with core Apple services like Apple Music. The iPhone maker was expected to announce a smart speaker, a market that Amazon -- with its sleeper hit, the Echo -- and then later Google Home, powered by Assistant -- now dominate, giving them an integral place in users' lives. Such a speaker was missing from Apple's line-up, allowing rivals Amazon and Google to siphon off some of its loyal user base.