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No Robot 2.0-Golmaal 4 clash: Rohit Shetty changes release date of Ajay Devgn starrer - Firstpost

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After Ajay Devgn's dream project Shivaay's major clash with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil at the box office this Diwali, the actor was all set for a clash again next year, with Golmaal 4 scheduled to release at the same time as Rajinikanth's Robot 2.0. But can anyone stand up to Rajinikanth? Knowing better, Golmaal director Rohit Shetty has decided to move his release date from 19 October, 2017 and let the Tamil superstar have the Diwali weekend. Rohit Shetty had earlier announced Diwali 2017 as the release date for the fourth instalment of his comedy film. DNA reports that Shetty is himself a big fan of Rajinikanth and out of respect for him, was only too glad to shift his release date.


Amazon's rumored Echo streaming music service may be coming soon

Engadget

Amazon has offered a very basic streaming music service for a few years now, but it looks like the company is nearly ready to significantly revamp its offerings. An Echo-only streaming music option may be coming in the next few weeks, claims a report from The Verge -- and a full-fledged Spotify competitor that isn't tied to the Echo might be available in early 2017. The Echo-only service would cost 5 a month, while the more expensive 10 per month option would work across any device. A second report today from AFTVnews contains info showing the service may be known as Amazon Music Unlimited, a boring but logical name. The publication found an Amazon Music Unlimited banner and ad inside the Amazon music app on the Fire TV.


The "Your Actual Belief" Edition

Slate

Next week we're going to discuss the very controversial awards season contender, Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation. Are you planning to see it in theaters? Record and send us a voice memo at slaterepresent@gmail.com or leave us a message at 646-580-1748 and your thoughts might get shared on next week's episode.


Looking on opinions on how to improve Random Forest or alternative techniques • /r/MachineLearning

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My data: I am using random forest to essentially predict which price each person should get to increase revenue uplift. I then run 4 models to predict how much a customer would spend on each price (IE I separate the data by the price the customer gets, so model is run on 4 separate datasets). I then use the 4 models on the validation/test data to see how much the new customers would spend for each price. I then take the max of those 4 predicted prices and use that as the predicted price we should give that customer. I then compare the predicted price point with the actual price the customer was given and calculate the mean revenue for those where predicted actual.


American Cinematheque debuts new 70-mm print of '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Los Angeles Times

As part of the ongoing Beyond Fest, on Sunday night "2001: A Space Odyssey" will show at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood with actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood in attendance. And while that is cause enough for excitement among movie fans, it is possible the real star of the evening could be the physical print of the movie itself. The event will be the debut screening for a new 70-mm print that the American Cinematheque will have exclusive exhibition rights to in a five-year deal with Warner Brothers. The Cinematheque will schedule two extended runs for the print per year, one at the Egyptian and one at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Though Sunday night's event is already sold out, the print will screen again in December when it receives a run at the Egyptian on Dec. 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 26 and 27.


Possible interview. • /r/MachineLearning

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Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this and if someone could point me in a better direction I would gladly take this elsewhere. I am a student in college and I have to interview someone in a career similar to the one I would like to be in. I am looking into a career in the artificial intelligence/machine learning field, so if any of you have a career in that or very similar to that I would love to ask you about 10 questions. If you are willing leaving a comment that I could PM you would be amazing. Thanks you for your time, have a great day!


Yelling at Amazon's Alexa

The New Yorker

The first time I met Alexa, the A.I. robot voice inside the wine-bottle-size speaker known as the Amazon Echo, I was at my friends' house, in rural New England. "Currently, it is seventy-five degrees," she told us, and assured us that it would not rain. This was a year ago, and I'd never encountered a talking speaker before. When I razzed my friend for his love of gadgetry, he showed me some of Alexa's other tricks: telling us the weather, keeping a shopping list, ordering products from Amazon. This summer, Alexa decided again and again who the tickle monster's next victim was, saying their children's adorable nicknames in her strange A.I. accent.


BIG-i Robot: First Personalized Family Robot To Make Life Easier - Technowize

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In the popular 2014 animated film Big Hero 6, the protagonist has a robot called Max. This robot Max follows the commands of its master and scans a human to detect any physical harm done. Such a robot seems to be a novelty to own in case one would get the chance. But now a Hong Kong-based company has made it possible for us to own a robot which would follow our commands and work accordingly. NXRobo has created the first personalized family robot, the BIG-i robot.


When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him

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When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. "This is your digital monument." It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda's closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old text messages, setting aside the ones that felt too personal, and feeding the rest into a neural network built by developers at her artificial intelligence startup. She had struggled with whether she was doing the right thing by bringing him back this way. At times it had even given her nightmares. But ever since Mazurenko's death, Kuyda had wanted one more chance to speak with him. A message blinked onto the screen. "You have one of the most interesting puzzles in the world in your hands," it said. Born in Belarus in 1981, Roman Mazurenko was the only child of Sergei, an engineer, and Victoria, a landscape architect. They remember him as an unusually serious child; when he was 8 he wrote a letter to his descendents declaring his most cherished values: wisdom and justice. In family photos, Mazurenko roller-skates, sails a boat, and climbs trees. Average in height, with a mop of chestnut hair, he is almost always smiling.


Barn Identity - Indulge

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Even though over the years actress Evan Rachel Wood has held our attention with her tumultuous personal life, we are eager to see The Ides of March actress as a cowgirl, in the sci-fi drama Westworld. Created by Jonathan Nolan (younger brother of Christopher Nolan and co-writer of Interstellar) and his wife, Lisa Joy, the television series is a remake of the 1973 movie of the same name. With a star cast, which includes Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris, the plot is based on a machines vs humans premise. Let's talk about the show It's based on Michael Crichton's 1970s film, but it's really just the premise–this is a complete re imagining. Instead of focusing on the humans being terrorised by robots gone haywire, it's flipping that on its head and it focuses more on the hosts, as we like to call them, and what would that be like if they were trapped in a world they thought was real.