Asking a bunch of literate people about the Great American Novel is an open invitation for us all to show off and make cogent, compelling arguments about the importance of [insert a favorite novel here] in the canon of American literature, regardless of whether anyone outside our small circle of literary compatriots knows of the novel or would agree. As a science fiction and fantasy writer, for example, I can make a pretty good argument for Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" or Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," or maybe even Mark Helprin's "Winter's Tale," and I might even get a cheering section behind the choice. Ubiquity: It has to be a novel that a relatively large number of Americans have read, and that a large proportion of those who haven't read it know about in other ways (for example, by a popular filmed adaptation). Notability: There has to be a general agreement that the novel is significant -- it has literary quality and/or is part of the cultural landscape in a way that's unquestionable (even if critically assailable). Morality: It needs to address some unique aspect of the American experience, usually either our faults or our aspirations as a nation, with recognizable moral force (not to be confused with a happy ending).

You know who you are.) These researchers decided to watch people's brains with an fMRI in order to glean some hints that could be used for a better navigational algorithm.] I wrote earlier this year about some of the ways that AI is helping us to do our jobs better. One of these is in more efficient route planning to help service personnel get to jobs faster. It's the kind of travelling salesman problem that has been challenging people since the 1930s due to the computational difficulties involved.

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Click on the first attribute in the dataset in the "Attributes" panel. Take note of the details in the "Selected attribute" panel.

Insilico Medicine will unveil a newly-developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) drug discovery engine at the Re-Work Machine Intelligence Summit in Berlin, Germany, to be held June 29-30, 2016. The AI engine is capable of predicting therapeutic use, toxicity, and adverse effects of thousands of molecules. Insilico says that this drug-discovery engine has the potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry and double the number of drugs on the market by "developing multi-modal deep-learned and parametric biomarkers as well as multiple drug-scoring pipelines for drug discovery and drug repurposing, and hypothesis and lead generation." By using AI coupled with a deep understanding of pharmaceutical R&D processes, Insilico hopes to overcome hurdles to drug discovery, such as failure rates due to irreproducible experiments with poor choices of animal models and the inability to translate the results from animal models directly to humans. Up until now, Insilico has dealt mainly with nutraceuticals and cosmetics, signing an exclusive agreement with Life Extension, a vendor of major nutraceutical products, to develop a set of geroprotectors, which are natural products that mimic a young, healthy state in multiple old tissues.

When we hear about Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs), we typically think of Computer Vision. CNNs were responsible for major breakthroughs in Image Classification and are the core of most Computer Vision systems today, from Facebook's automated photo tagging to self-driving cars. More recently we've also started to apply CNNs to problems in Natural Language Processing and gotten some interesting results. In this post I'll try to summarize what CNNs are, and how they're used in NLP. The intuitions behind CNNs are somewhat easier to understand for the Computer Vision use case, so I'll start there, and then slowly move towards NLP.

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We have lot of amazing frameworks for deep learning which allow us easy and fast prototyping and learning complex architectures even not thinking about what happening inside of them. But sometimes you need to deploy your model somewhere… let's say where you can't use your favorite I recently faced this problem, when I had to deploy recurrent neural network for action recognition trained in Keras in Java. My client doesn't want to use some microservices architecture, he wants everything in Java and basta cosi:) Embedding is vector length of 11, hidden units 15. First, let's load our weights from .hdf5 And if we check one of the most popular tutorials in LSTMs… We are just lucky!

We could explicitly unroll the loops ourselves, creating new graph nodes for each loop iteration, but then the number of iterations is fixed instead of dynamic, and graph creation can be extremely slow. Let's go over two examples. First, we'll create a simple cumulative-sum operation using scan. For example, [1, 2, 2, 2] as input will produce [1, 3, 5, 7] as output. Second, we'll build a toy RNN from scratch, and we'll have it learn the cumulative-sum operation from example input, target sequences.

The line between fiction and reality is blurring. Some years ago, driverless cars and drones delivering packages at our doorsteps would have seemed like science fiction. However, these and other new technological advances continue to astound us and make our lives easier. For instance, Dag Kittlaus, who created the virtual assistant Siri, recently showcased another artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Viv, at TechCrunch Disrupt, New York. Based on the demo shown, Viv seems to be a more sophisticated and powerful a virtual assistant.