Many have written about how deep learning is taking over the world and why that is important; I cannot echo them enough. Playing with deep learning is the closest I've ever felt to being a magician, and it's become clear to me that every (great) piece of software will be powered by deep learning within the next 3 years. However, deep learning isn't mainstream yet, so I thought I'd share work by some very talented contributors, in the hopes to bring it just that little bit closer. Quick note: I've started a weekly email newsletter covering all things deep learning and self-driving cars. I call it Transmission, sign up today!

Few industries are as competitive as ecommerce. Not only are online retailers competing with other online stores and brick-and-mortar locations, but also the overall noise that is the Internet. We live in a world where consumer attention span is getting shorter and shorter: 40 percent of people abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load, and the average shopping cart is abandoned more than 68 percent of the time. I'm hard pressed to find an ecommerce site that is not constantly scrambling to engage more and drive more sales. Technology is finally helping with those efforts in a big way.

Recruiters everywhere want to do work that matters. Work that encompasses their wide array of skills – skills that can attribute to a candidate's job placement and a company's overall success. So big that recruiters can make a lasting difference on the economy, which means they literally have the potential to change the world. They can change the world not because of their exceptional ability to sift through countless piles of resumes, or their skillfulness in searching job boards and analyzing data, they make a difference when putting their emotional intelligence into play – when engaging with candidates, building relationships, and placing high-quality talent that go on to lead a company to greatness. This is where recruiting potential lies – in our human nature.

Our analytics engine Kairos processes unstructured data from millions of sites, blogs, and social platforms like Twitter and Tumblr. Billions of public posts are then analyzed and classified across 25,000 topics, emotions, and demographics--turning noisy social data into insights. In order to create predictions around the elections using our analytics platform Kairos, we built 4 metrics: Awareness, Positivity, Negativity and Intent, of which only Negativity and Intent proved to be valuable in predicting elections. Negativity and Intent are natural language processing classifiers which take advantage of sentence structure as well as keyword matching. Then we modeled the data against survey polls, primary results, and survey pools to obtain weights of influence for each of the social indices.

Confidence interval is abbreviated as CI. In this new article (part of our series on robust techniques for automated data science) we describe an implementation both in Excel and Perl, and discuss our popular model-free confidence interval technique introduced in our original Analyticbridge article, as part of our (open source) intellectual property sharing. This is part of our series on data science techniques suitable for automation, usable by non-experts. The next one to be detailed (with source code) will be our Hidden Decision Trees. Figure 1 is based on simulated data that does not follow a normal distribution: see section 2 and Figure 2 in this article. Classical CI's are just based on 2 parameters: mean and variance.

Remember Project Ara? Google's super secret modular smartphone that was supposed to set the world on fire? They killed and buried the project, but we did some digging… look what we've got our hands on:

In machine learning, these statements are called forks, and they split the data into two branches based on some value. That value between the branches is called a split point. Homes to the left of that point get categorized in one way, while those to the right are categorized in another. A split point is the decision tree's version of a boundary. Picking a split point has tradeoffs. Our initial split ( 240 ft) incorrectly classifies some San Francisco homes as New York ones.

If you follow machine learning, you have definitely heard of neural networks. If you are a physicist, you may have heard of tensor networks too. Both are schemes for assembling simple units (neurons or tensors) into complicated functions: decision functions in the case of machine learning or wavefunctions in the case of quantum mechanics. But tensor networks have only linear elements. Neural networks crucially require non-linear elements for their success (specifically, non-linear neuron activation functions).

Thanks to the likes of Google, Amazon, and Facebook, the terms artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have become much more widespread than ever before. They are often used interchangeably and promise all sorts from smarter home appliances to robots taking our jobs. But while AI and machine learning are very much related, they are not quite the same thing. Google's Digital Justice League: how its Jigsaw projects are hunting down online trolls AI is a branch of computer science attempting to build machines capable of intelligent behaviour, while Stanford University defines machine learning as "the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed". You need AI researchers to build the smart machines, but you need machine learning experts to make them truly intelligent.

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