In order for an e-commerce platform to maximize its revenue, it must recommend customers items they are most likely to purchase. However, the company often has business constraints on these items, such as the number of each item in stock. In this work, our goal is to recommend items to users as they arrive on a webpage sequentially, in an online manner, in order to maximize reward for a company, but also satisfy budget constraints. We first approach the simpler online problem in which the customers arrive as a stationary Poisson process, and present an integrated algorithm that performs online optimization and online learning together. We then make the model more complicated but more realistic, treating the arrival processes as non-stationary Poisson processes. To deal with heterogeneous customer arrivals, we propose a time segmentation algorithm that converts a non-stationary problem into a series of stationary problems. Experiments conducted on large-scale synthetic data demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed approaches on solving constrained resource allocation problems.

Almost 37% of organizations have invested $5 million or more in cognitive technologies, states a survey by Deloitte. Inside and under every app we use every day there lies the revolution of technology. A revolution that started decades ago is now empowering organizations to deliver better and smarter services. The demand for artificial intelligence professionals has rapidly increased. But since AI adoption is still in its infancy there is a dearth for talent.

Udacity, the Silicon Valley based lifelong learning platform, announced its newest initiative to expand students' artificial intelligence skills: the Intel Edge AI Scholarship Program. This new scholarship program, announced at the Intel AI Summit and the Future of Education and Workforce Summit in San Francisco, will empower professional developers interested in advanced learning, specifically deep learning and computer vision, to accelerate the development and deployment of high-performance computer vision and deep learning solutions. Computer vision and AI at the edge are becoming instrumental in powering everything from factory assembly lines and retail inventory management to hospital urgent care medical imaging equipment like X-ray and CAT scans. This program will teach fluency in some of the most cutting-edge technologies. Upon successful completion of the first phase of the program, students will also have the opportunity to earn their way to a full scholarship to the Intel Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program, a brand-new Udacity Nanodegree program built in partnership with Intel.

In this paper, we study the non-stationary online second price auction problem. We assume that the seller is selling the same type of items in $T$ rounds by the second price auction, and she can set the reserve price in each round. In each round, the bidders draw their private values from a joint distribution unknown to the seller. Then, the seller announced the reserve price in this round. Next, bidders with private values higher than the announced reserve price in that round will report their values to the seller as their bids. The bidder with the highest bid larger than the reserved price would win the item and she will pay to the seller the price equal to the second-highest bid or the reserve price, whichever is larger. The seller wants to maximize her total revenue during the time horizon $T$ while learning the distribution of private values over time. The problem is more challenging than the standard online learning scenario since the private value distribution is non-stationary, meaning that the distribution of bidders' private values may change over time, and we need to use the \emph{non-stationary regret} to measure the performance of our algorithm. To our knowledge, this paper is the first to study the repeated auction in the non-stationary setting theoretically. Our algorithm achieves the non-stationary regret upper bound $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\min\{\sqrt{\mathcal S T}, \bar{\mathcal{V}}^{\frac{1}{3}}T^{\frac{2}{3}}\})$, where $\mathcal S$ is the number of switches in the distribution, and $\bar{\mathcal{V}}$ is the sum of total variation, and $\mathcal S$ and $\bar{\mathcal{V}}$ are not needed to be known by the algorithm. We also prove regret lower bounds $\Omega(\sqrt{\mathcal S T})$ in the switching case and $\Omega(\bar{\mathcal{V}}^{\frac{1}{3}}T^{\frac{2}{3}})$ in the dynamic case, showing that our algorithm has nearly optimal \emph{non-stationary regret}.

Many programmers are moving towards data science and machine learning hoping for better pay and career opportunities -- and there is a reason for it. The Data scientist has been ranked the number one job on Glassdoor for last a couple of years and the average salary of a data scientist is over $120,000 in the United States according to Indeed. Data science is not only a rewarding career in terms of money but it also provides the opportunity for you to solve some of the world's most interesting problems. IMHO, that's the main motivation many good programmers are moving towards data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. If you are in the same boat and thinking about becoming a data scientist in 2019, then you have come to the right place.

Data Science Specialization is one of the best known sets of courses offered by Coursera in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University. This specialization covers the concepts and tools you'll need throughout the entire data science pipeline. The Specialization concludes with a Capstone project that allows you to apply the skills you've learned throughout the courses. Coursera John Hopkins Data Science is a ten course program that covers the data science process from data collection to the production of data science products. It focuses on implementing the data science process in R. Coursera Johns Hopkins data science certification includes 9 courses and a capstone project.

The rise of technology within the education sector over the last few decades has been astounding. This is certainly the case if we consider that teaching with technology has become pervasive in almost every classroom environment. Within today's classroom, for example, we find ourselves surrounded by devices such as smart boards, AV, computers, laptops, tablets and phones, to name but a few technologies which are now being integrated into teaching. We have also seen the rise of the virtual learning environment and blended learning, alongside a significant rise in online education. This has allowed distance learning to take new forms and shapes and to reach greater audiences around the world.

Learning new skills to enhance your abilities to do a task effectively can be a hectic schedule especially if you are an employee. It's hard to chase coaching or learning centers after spending 8-10 hours in the office per day. And when it comes to becoming technology-efficient specifically in the field of data science, you need to have the best qualification, handy experiences to get better job opportunities in this high in-demand profession. To ease out people's hectic schedules without compromising with the quality of the education, online platforms like Coursera, Udemy, eDX and many more have a collection of data science certification and courses. Adding a touch of extra bonanza, these courses are free of cost.

Good day, The biggest AI bootcamp in Nigeria is here! Will you be part of the best of the best who will make it to the all-expense paid residential Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp?... This was a mail I received on September 24 from Data Science Nigeria. And below is a snippet of what I got on Data Science Nigeria's website today. I started my programming journey back in September, 2018 with the most highly rated course on Udemy courtesy of my mentor, Fakorede Abiola.

The robots are coming – for jobs. This is the plain, cold, hard fact we now face as we head towards the third decade of the 21st Century. The technology-driven world in which we now live is one filled with promise – cars that drive themselves, algorithms that respond to customer service inquiries, automated business intelligence on tap. Yet, this brave new world is also filled with challenges. For even as AI and automation increase productivity and improve our lives, their widespread adoption means that many work activities humans currently perform will soon be displaced – if they haven't been already. What this doesn't mean, however, is that there will be a shortage of jobs in the future.