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Top EdTech Companies to Watch in 2022

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How can we become efficient learners? Education is an essential part of society and leads to our progression in general. However, it can be difficult for some to learn as much as others, and studying can fail to hold many people's attention. Combining technology and education is another element of the technological evolution, with the common goal of making learning easier on students while at the same time producing more outstanding results. Technology can not only ease the learning process but also dissect the students' progress and provide responses accordingly.


7 Completely FREE R Programming Online Courses

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This Free Udemy course has 3 sections. In the first section, you will learn R basics and how to download R and Rstudio. In the next section, you will learn how to code in R programming and understand functions, loops, R datasets, and R dataframes. The last section teaches how to load CSV files in R, how to apply a family of functions, how to test for normality, KNN classification, LDA(Linear Discriminant Analysis), etc. Overall, this is a good course for beginners to learn R programming basics.


Automatic Context-Driven Inference of Engagement in HMI: A Survey

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

An integral part of seamless human-human communication is engagement, the process by which two or more participants establish, maintain, and end their perceived connection. Therefore, to develop successful human-centered human-machine interaction applications, automatic engagement inference is one of the tasks required to achieve engaging interactions between humans and machines, and to make machines attuned to their users, hence enhancing user satisfaction and technology acceptance. Several factors contribute to engagement state inference, which include the interaction context and interactants' behaviours and identity. Indeed, engagement is a multi-faceted and multi-modal construct that requires high accuracy in the analysis and interpretation of contextual, verbal and non-verbal cues. Thus, the development of an automated and intelligent system that accomplishes this task has been proven to be challenging so far. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on previous work in engagement inference for human-machine interaction, entailing interdisciplinary definition, engagement components and factors, publicly available datasets, ground truth assessment, and most commonly used features and methods, serving as a guide for the development of future human-machine interaction interfaces with reliable context-aware engagement inference capability. An in-depth review across embodied and disembodied interaction modes, and an emphasis on the interaction context of which engagement perception modules are integrated sets apart the presented survey from existing surveys.


Inverse Online Learning: Understanding Non-Stationary and Reactionary Policies

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Human decision making is well known to be imperfect and the ability to analyse such processes individually is crucial when attempting to aid or improve a decision-maker's ability to perform a task, e.g. to alert them to potential biases or oversights on their part. To do so, it is necessary to develop interpretable representations of how agents make decisions and how this process changes over time as the agent learns online in reaction to the accrued experience. To then understand the decision-making processes underlying a set of observed trajectories, we cast the policy inference problem as the inverse to this online learning problem. By interpreting actions within a potential outcomes framework, we introduce a meaningful mapping based on agents choosing an action they believe to have the greatest treatment effect. We introduce a practical algorithm for retrospectively estimating such perceived effects, alongside the process through which agents update them, using a novel architecture built upon an expressive family of deep state-space models. Through application to the analysis of UNOS organ donation acceptance decisions, we demonstrate that our approach can bring valuable insights into the factors that govern decision processes and how they change over time.


Machine Learning: Learn By Building Web Apps in Python

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Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) focused on building applications that learn from data and improve their accuracy over time without being programmed to do so. In data science, an algorithm is a sequence of statistical processing steps. In machine learning, algorithms are'trained' to find patterns and features in massive amounts of data in order to make decisions and predictions based on new data. The better the algorithm, the more accurate the decisions and predictions will become as it processes more data. Machine learning has led to some amazing results, like being able to analyze medical images and predict diseases on-par with human experts.


An Application of Online Learning to Spacecraft Memory Dump Optimization

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

With the fast-growing number of satellites orbiting Earth, the Space Operations field has become a prominent and thriving sector. As a consequence, the complexity of planning satellite operations is constantly increasing: Ground Stations have to handle communication with multiple satellites simultaneously while frequently engaged in Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) activities; Satellite Operators need to perform routine tasks and promptly react to contingencies while checking the status of the incoming and disseminated satellite's products. These actions are costly, require time, and are remarkably prone to human errors. Despite this, Satellite Operators still carry out many of these duties by relying on their technical expertise rather than leveraging modern machine learning tools. On the other hand, computers, hardware, and flight software are becoming more sophisticated with each passing day.


Setting a new bar for online higher education

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The education sector was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools across the globe were forced to shutter their campuses in the spring of 2020 and rapidly shift to online instruction. For many higher education institutions, this meant delivering standard courses and the "traditional" classroom experience through videoconferencing and various connectivity tools. The approach worked to support students through a period of acute crisis but stands in contrast to the offerings of online education pioneers. These institutions use AI and advanced analytics to provide personalized learning and on-demand student support, and to accommodate student preferences for varying digital formats.


Top 10 Machine Learning Boot Camps Aspirants Should Attend - TOP 10

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Machine learning technology can autonomously identify malignant tumors, pilot Teslas, and real-time machine learning algorithms are ground-breakingly independent. Machine learning boot camps can offer a fast and affordable path to a career in computer science. Machine learning boot camps cover the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and data science. This Bootcamp collaborates with large corporations, therefore, Codesmith students will have the opportunity to work in large corporations. Codesmith teaches students full-stack development, front-end development, and JavaScript, emphasizing machine learning.


Personalized Rehabilitation Robotics based on Online Learning Control

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The use of rehabilitation robotics in clinical applications gains increasing importance, due to therapeutic benefits and the ability to alleviate labor-intensive works. However, their practical utility is dependent on the deployment of appropriate control algorithms, which adapt the level of task-assistance according to each individual patient's need. Generally, the required personalization is achieved through manual tuning by clinicians, which is cumbersome and error-prone. In this work we propose a novel online learning control architecture, which is able to personalize the control force at run time to each individual user. To this end, we deploy Gaussian process-based online learning with previously unseen prediction and update rates. Finally, we evaluate our method in an experimental user study, where the learning controller is shown to provide personalized control, while also obtaining safe interaction forces.


Lost in Translation: Reimagining the Machine Learning Life Cycle in Education

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly prevalent in education, from their use in predicting student dropout, to assisting in university admissions, and facilitating the rise of MOOCs. Given the rapid growth of these novel uses, there is a pressing need to investigate how ML techniques support long-standing education principles and goals. In this work, we shed light on this complex landscape drawing on qualitative insights from interviews with education experts. These interviews comprise in-depth evaluations of ML for education (ML4Ed) papers published in preeminent applied ML conferences over the past decade. Our central research goal is to critically examine how the stated or implied education and societal objectives of these papers are aligned with the ML problems they tackle. That is, to what extent does the technical problem formulation, objectives, approach, and interpretation of results align with the education problem at hand. We find that a cross-disciplinary gap exists and is particularly salient in two parts of the ML life cycle: the formulation of an ML problem from education goals and the translation of predictions to interventions. We use these insights to propose an extended ML life cycle, which may also apply to the use of ML in other domains. Our work joins a growing number of meta-analytical studies across education and ML research, as well as critical analyses of the societal impact of ML. Specifically, it fills a gap between the prevailing technical understanding of machine learning and the perspective of education researchers working with students and in policy.