Data Science Weekly - Issue 275
Issue #275 Feb 28 2019
Editor Picks
Cocktail similarity
Ever wondered whether it's possible to measure the similarity between sets of ingredients in cocktails so you can conceptualize drinks in a connected graph, in which edges represent substitutions? No? well,...
Humanity + AI: Better Together
So the counter-narrative I want to offer to the mainstream, front page accounts is that with careful, thoughtful, empathic design, we can enable ourselves to live longer, safer lives. We can create jobs where we are doing more creative work. We can understand each other better. But before I get to the many, many examples of where this is already happening today, let me share what’s happening in the AI ecosystem more broadly...
Art & AI: The Logic Behind Deep Learning ‘Style Transfer
A Look Into the ’Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style...
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Data Science Articles & Videos
How To Write Mathematics
Paul Halmos's classic essay in pdf ...
Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy
Since last year, a joint DeepMind and Google project to apply ML to 700 MW of wind power in the central US has so far boosted the value of wind energy by ~20%...
Technical walkthrough: packaging ML models for inference with TF Serving
This guide is for machine learning practitioners looking to apply Keras models at scale. I’ll cover a concrete problem we faced and then provide a code walkthrough of our solution...
AdaBound
An optimizer that trains as fast as Adam and as good as SGD, for developing state-of-the-art deep learning models on a wide variety of popular tasks in the field of CV, NLP, and etc...
Approximating Wasserstein distances with PyTorch
After a long time, sharing what I've learned about Optimal transport, and Approximating Wasserstein distances with PyTorch...
AI is reinventing the way we invent
The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn’t make on our own...
Fixup Initialization: Residual Learning Without Normalization
Normalization layers are a staple in state-of-the-art deep neural network architectures. They are widely believed to stabilize training, enable higher learning rate, accelerate convergence and improve generalization, though the reason for their effectiveness is still an active research topic. In this work, we challenge the commonly-held beliefs by showing that none of the perceived benefits is unique to normalization. Specifically, we propose fixed-update initialization (Fixup), an initialization motivated by solving the exploding and vanishing gradient problem at the beginning of training via properly rescaling a standard initialization...
Paper: Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second
Daniel Lemire and I have spent some time this year working on a fast JSON parser. In this blog post, I’ll provide an informal summary of the paper and some background as to the thinking behind the system...
Event
MIT Robo-AI Exchange
The MIT Robo-AI Exchange (March 9, 2019) will bring together business leaders from across a number of industries to share strategies and outcomes related to the adoption of Robotics and AI. The event attracts business executives, corporate strategists, product and project managers, university students, entrepreneurs, technologists and academics to learn from world-class keynote speakers and panelists as well as one another.
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Jobs
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Training & Resources
Print TensorFlow Version
Learn how to find out which version of TensorFlow is installed in your system by printing the TensorFlow version, via a screencast video and full tutorial transcript...
Topological Approaches for Unsupervised Learning
My talk on topological data analysis at ML Prague is already online! It provides a brief whirlwind tour of why topological methods matter for unsupervised learning problems...
Lingvo: A TensorFlow Framework for Sequence Modeling
Lingvo is a deep learning framework used for sequence modeling tasks like machine translation, speech recognition, and speech synthesis...
Books
The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics "The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin using R effectively for statistical analysis"...
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