Everyone just stop right now and check out Microsoft's new Tay chatbot, an "AI fam from the internet that's got zero chill." If you have an account on Kik, GroupMe, or Twitter, you can begin interacting with Tay right now. "Tay is designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation," according to the Tay website. "The more you chat with Tay, the smarter she gets, so the experience can be more personalized for you." Why this matters: The AI chatbot was designed by Microsoft's Research and Bing teams, which will use its interactions to develop greater understanding of natural conversation for its user base, presumably those who think Microsoft's Cortana is too old and staid to bother with.

Big Ass Fans' Haiku ceiling fans have been the most sophisticated fans to reach the consumer market since they began shipping in 2014. Equipped with temperature, humidity, and occupancy sensors, they can turn themselves on and off and automatically adjust their rotational speed as needed. They can also exchange information with Nest thermostats to cool your home even more efficiently. In early 2016, Big Ass Fans formed a new division--Haiku Home--to focus on the residential market. Now Haiku Home has announced integration with Amazon's Alexa voice control, so that its fans' automatic settings can be overridden with voice commands.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Drone maker DJI's latest release, the Phantom 4, makes it easier than ever to capture beautiful aerial photos and videos. But the Chinese firm is working on ways to make the process simpler still. The company is currently building a set of automatic camera maneuvers that could allow Phantom 4 owners to nail complex shots by just pushing a button. "A lot of people, what they'll do is they'll fly around and their first shots aren't that great because they're getting used to it," says Pan. The feature would allow Phantom 4 owners to choose from a selection of camera maneuvers that the drone would be able to execute on its own.

This blog was originally featured on blog.aylien.com, a Text Analysis blog with tutorials, Data Visualisations and industry discussions. Our founder, Parsa Ghaffari, gave a talk recently on Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis at the Science Gallery in Dublin. As part of the talk, he put together a nice little example of how you can transform your Google Spreadsheet into a powerful Text Analysis and Data Mining tool. In this case, he took a simple example of analyzing restaurant reviews from a popular review site but the same could be done for hotels, products, service offerings and so on. He wanted to show how easy it can be for data geeks and even the less technical marketers among us, to start analyzing text and gathering business insight from the reams of textual data online today.

This paper has a good investigation on adding depth to recurrent functions. There was a detailed discussion yesterday about how depth (and skip connections) function in RNNs.

In 2012, a year which feels a lot like the very early years of the era of data, Wired published this article on Narrative Science, an organization based in Chicago that uses Machine Learning algorithms to write news articles. Its founder and CEO, Kris Hammond, is a man whose enthusiasm for algorithmic possibilities is unparalleled. When asked whether an algorithm would win a Pulitzer in the next 20 years he goes further, claiming that it could happen in the next 5 years. Hammond's excitement at what his organization is doing is not unwarranted. But his optimism certainly is. Unless 2017 is a particularly poor year for journalism and literary nonfiction, a Pulitzer for one of Narrative Science's algorithms looks unlikely to say the least.

Some people seem to get along with everyone. Most people have an innate ability to read other people and quickly adjust their own style to match. We all do it to some degree, but some of us do it better than others. Consciously and unconsciously, we read other people by looking for cues – we evaluate facial expressions, vocal tone, body language, posture and gestures to assess how similar theirs are to our own. Sometimes we adjust accordingly and sometimes we don't, but the real purpose of reading other people is to reduce the ambiguity of our social interactions Great communicators exploit this phenomenon to build rapport with virtually anyone.

Technology major Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced the commercial launch of Haven OnDemand, a cloud platform that provides advanced machine learning application programme interfaces and services that enable developers, startups and enterprises to build data-rich mobile and enterprise applications. The company also announced a new version of Idol analytics platform, which applies data analytics and machine learning for organisations to automate and supplement a vast array of manual-based tasks such as trend analysis and video surveillance.

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