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Ki & Ka review: A corporate robot's love for too much drama

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At least this is what R Balki's Ki & Ka tries to establish: In this world, women behave like men, and men are already men. Delhi-based Kabir Bansal (Arjun Kapoor) is in line to inherit his father's multi-crore business conglomerate. Are you also reminded of the AIB Roast? Yes, Arjun Kapoor is playing a North Indian, again. Kabir wants to be like his mother because he believes being a housewife is nothing short of being an artist.


Man's 'Scarlett Johansson' robot

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Ricky Ma, a products and graphics designer from Hong Kong has built a life-like, programmable robot. 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 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 labours of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than NZ 72,427, 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.


Engineering for nostalgia: Building a personalized "On This Day" experience

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One year ago, we launched On This Day to make it easier to relive and share memories on Facebook. Since launch, On This Day has been used by hundreds of millions of people globally. Because memories are so personal and unique, we wanted to make sure On This Day shows people the memories they most likely want to see and share, especially when it comes to the memories they see in News Feed. Specifically, over the past year, we focused on three areas to optimize the product experience: user experience research, filtering, and ranking. To better understand what types of memories are best to show people in News Feed, we listened to feedback from people through UX research. In these sessions, we learned just how complex memories can be.


Weaponizing Machine Learning Against ISIS Will Tangle Military Chains of Command

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Weaponizing Machine Learning Against ISIS Will Tangle Military Chains of Command Everyone on the Internet had a great time with Tay, Microsoft's Twitter robot that became a racist Holocaust denier in a matter of a few hours (then came back and did it again). The company had created a public relations flap -- more incident than a disaster -- while giving the public an object lesson on the pros and cons of machine learning: Automation can harness patterns to fascinating effect at speed, but the results will be predictably hard to predict. As is often the case, the military is an early adopter of automation technology. It is -- at one time -- leading the charge toward machine learning and also trying desperately to keep up.


Netflix, pets and artificial intelligence -- 'Finer Things Podcast' No.8

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This publication is not an official publication of Colorado State University, but is published by an independent corporation using the name'The Rocky Mountain Collegian' pursuant to a license granted by CSU.


Eye in the Sky Is the Quintessential Modern War Film

WIRED

The war film is one of cinema's most enduring genres; nearly every major conflict of the past century has been depicted on screen--multiple times. Films that wrestle with the rapidly changing nature of war, though, are rarer. As drone warfare continues its slow march into public consciousness, Eye in the Sky is the best movie yet to tackle the legal and moral quagmire surrounding modern technological warfare. To do that, Eye in the Sky goes granular, telling the story of one particular mission on one particular day. In the movie, opening wide today, British colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) oversees a secret operation to capture a terrorist cell in Nairobi, Kenya.



If Hollywood Made Movies About Machine Learning Algorithms

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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.


New presenters of amazing programs on science are helping to create exciting catalysts for thought

Los Angeles Times

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.


Hong Kong Man Builds Life-Sized Humanoid Robot From Scratch

International Business Times

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.