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The digital skills gap is widening fast. Here's how to bridge it

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Access to skilled workers is already a key factor that sets successful companies apart from failing ones. In an increasingly data-driven future - the European Commission believes there could be as many as 756,000 unfilled jobs in the European ICT sector by 2020 - this difference will become even more acute. Skills gaps across all industries are poised to grow in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other emerging technologies are happening in ever shorter cycles, changing the very nature of the jobs that need to be done - and the skills needed to do them - faster than ever before. At least 133 million new roles generated as a result of the new division of labour between humans, machines and algorithms may emerge globally by 2022, according to the World Economic Forum.


Decision Variance in Online Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Online learning has traditionally focused on the expected rewards. In this paper, a risk-averse online learning problem under the performance measure of the mean-variance of the rewards is studied. Both the bandit and full information settings are considered. The performance of several existing policies is analyzed, and new fundamental limitations on risk-averse learning is established. In particular, it is shown that although a logarithmic distribution-dependent regret in time $T$ is achievable (similar to the risk-neutral problem), the worst-case (i.e. minimax) regret is lower bounded by $\Omega(T)$ (in contrast to the $\Omega(\sqrt{T})$ lower bound in the risk-neutral problem). This sharp difference from the risk-neutral counterpart is caused by the the variance in the player's decisions, which, while absent in the regret under the expected reward criterion, contributes to excess mean-variance due to the non-linearity of this risk measure. The role of the decision variance in regret performance reflects a risk-averse player's desire for robust decisions and outcomes.


Top 5 Machine Learning Courses for 2019

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With strong roots in statistics, Machine Learning is becoming one of the most interesting and fast-paced computer science fields to work in. There's an endless supply of industries and applications machine learning can be applied to to make them more efficient and intelligent. Chat bots, spam filtering, ad serving, search engines, and fraud detection, are among just a few examples of how machine learning models underpin everyday life. Machine learning is what lets us find patterns and create mathematical models for things that would sometimes be impossible for humans to do. Unlike data science courses, which contain topics like exploratory data analysis, statistics, communication, and visualization techniques, machine learning courses focus on teaching only the machine learning algorithms, how they work mathematically, and how to utilize them in a programming language. Now, it's time to get started.


Artificial Intelligence - TensorFlow Machine Learning

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Theory section: It is very important to understand the reason of learning something. The need for learning machine learning and javascript in this particular case is explained in this section. Foundation section: In this section, most of the basic topics required to approach a particular problem are covered like the basics of javascript, what are neural networks, dom manipulation, what are tensors and many more such topics Practice section: In this section, you put your learnt skills to a test by writing code to solve a particular problem. The explanation of the solution to the problem is also provided in good detail which makes hands-on learning even more efficient. Theory section: It is very important to understand the reason of learning something.


Por qué tu profesor del futuro no va a ser un robot (pero sí tendrá que utilizar uno) Economía E-Learning-Inclusivo (Mashup)

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You may have heard the old parable about a group of blind men and an elephant. The men heard that a strange animal had been brought to town, and they wanted to touch it so they could understand what it was. The first man, whose hand landed on the trunk, decided that the elephant was like a thick snake. The second, whose hand reached the elephant's ear, thought it seemed like a kind of fan. The third man felt the leg and said the animal was like a tree.


Google Debuts TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha

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TensorFlow is the world's most popular open source machine learning library. Since its initial release in 2015, the Google Brain product has been downloaded over 41 million times. At this week's 2019 TensorFlow Dev Summit, Google announced a major upgrade on the framework, the TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha version. TensorFlow 2.0 focuses on simplicity and ease of use, with updates like eager execution, intuitive higher-level APIs, and flexible model building on any platform. Last August Google Brain Software Engineer Martin Wicke posted in Google Groups that TensorFlow 2.0 would be a major milestone, which led many in the machine learning community to expect the following upgrades: According to the TensorFlow 2.0 official guide, Google has delivered on the expectations.


How India Can Build An AI-Friendly Education System By 2030

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Today, AI has turned into reality what used to be the stuff of sci-fi novels. For decades, scholars from diverse disciplines have been predicting how AI and robotics are about to change the way we think, work and live. Although, not everyone is on the same page when it comes to AI, there is no denying that it is already demonstrating its positive potential in many industries. One area where AI is expected to play a huge role is education. However, in India, the education sector is still seeking ways to respond to the advent of this technology.


Udacity, Google Launch Free Artificial Intelligence Course for TensorFlow

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Want to build skills in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and deep learning? Udacity and Google are launching a free introductory course on the subject, which naturally leans into TensorFlow, the open-source library for deep learning software developed by Google. "Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning" is a two-month course, and now open to enrollment. Its goal is to help developers build A.I. applications that can scale (using TensorFlow, of course). It's the second TensorFlow-based collaboration between the two firms; in 2016, Udacity and Google launched a TesnorFlow course that taught students the basics of the platform.


Google and Udacity launch free course to help you master machine learning

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Google and online learning hub Udacity have launched a free course designed to make it simpler for software developers to grasp the fundamentals of machine learning. The "Intro to TensorFlow for Deep Learning" course is designed to be more accessible to developers than previous machine-learning courses offered by Udacity. "Our goal is to get you building state-of-the-art AI applications as fast as possible, without requiring a background in math," says Mat Leonard, head of the School of AI at Udacity. "If you can code, you can build AI with TensorFlow. You'll get hands-on experience using TensorFlow to implement state-of-the-art image classifiers and other deep learning models. You'll also learn how to deploy your models to various environments including browsers, phones, and the cloud."


Stochastic Online Learning with Probabilistic Graph Feedback

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We consider a problem of stochastic online learning with general probabilistic graph feedback. Two cases are covered. (a) The one-step case where for each edge $(i,j)$ with probability $p_{ij}$ in the probabilistic feedback graph. After playing arm $i$ the learner observes a sample reward feedback of arm $j$ with independent probability $p_{ij}$. (b) The cascade case where after playing arm $i$ the learner observes feedback of all arms $j$ in a probabilistic cascade starting from $i$ -- for each $(i,j)$ with probability $p_{ij}$, if arm $i$ is played or observed, then a reward sample of arm $j$ would be observed with independent probability $p_{ij}$. Previous works mainly focus on deterministic graphs which corresponds to one-step case with $p_{ij} \in \{0,1\}$, an adversarial sequence of graphs with certain topology guarantees or a specific type of random graphs. We analyze the asymptotic lower bounds and design algorithms in both cases. The regret upper bounds of the algorithms match the lower bounds with high probability.