Data Science Weekly - Issue 307
Issue #307 Oct 10 2019
Editor Picks
An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms to Understand the 'Why'
Deep learning is good at finding patterns in reams of data, but can't explain how they're connected. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants to change that...
The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning...
Machine vision uses radio waves to see through walls and in darkness
An algorithm uses radio waves rather than visible light to detect what people are up to without revealing what they look like...
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Data Science Articles & Videos
AI Deserts
Been thinking about AI in government with a bit of a contrary take. I'm worried that AI just widens the gap between the public and private sectors in ways we're not talking about enough...
Honey, I shrunk the AI (and it's nearly 10 times faster than the original)
Tiny AI models could supercharge autocorrect and voice assistants on your phone...
Open Set Medical Diagnosis
ML medical diagnosis models will be exposed to conditions they haven't been trained on when deployed. How do you address this? See our work to be presented at NeurIPS...
Unsupervised Doodling and Painting with Improved SPIRAL
We investigate using reinforcement learning agents as generative models of images...
Bootstrapping Conditional GANs for Video Game Level Generation
GANs for generating playable and “fun” game levels not only have useful applications for game design, but I think these techniques will lead to better game-playing agents...
Defining a historic football team:
Using Network Science to analyze Guardiola's F.C. Barcelona
Using Graph Theory to study the performance of a soccer team via their "passing network". Higher connectedness as indicated by the eigenvalue of the connectivity matrix and a higher algebraic connectivity indicates a more resilient/better team...
The dumb reason your fancy Computer Vision app isn’t working:
Exif Orientation
In my experience, there is one technical problem that trips people up more often than any other. No, it’s not a complicated theoretical issue or an issue with expensive GPUs. It’s the fact that almost everyone is loading their images into memory sideways without even knowing it. And computers are less than excellent at detecting objects or identifying faces in sideways images...
Machine learning edge devices: Benchmark report
In this report, we’ll benchmark five novel edge devices, using different frameworks and models, to see which combinations perform best. In particular, we’ll focus on performance outcomes for machine learning on the edge...
The First Step To Take When Looking For A Data Science Job
You have decided to look for a new job in the data science field and are finding it very hard. As someone new to the field, it all looks very chaotic and confusing to you. You want to find the right job for you and don't want to waste your time trying to apply to every single company advertising a job. Sadly, all the advice you are getting seems to be do a bunch of things that appear to be disconnected and sometimes even contradictory - network, blog, take these 4 MOOC's, talk to recruiters, don't talk to recruiters, participate in Kaggle competitions, do a bootcamp, join a data science fellowship program, etc... Given a limited amount of time and wanting to find the right opportunity, where do you start?...
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Jobs
Principal Data Scientist - Next Caller - NYC
Next Caller is searching for a data scientist with a contagious enthusiasm for data, a passion for exploratory problem solving, and a fascination with designing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms from scratch.
As the Principal Data Scientist, you can expect to play an essential role in creating innovation and excellence in Next Caller’s Machine Learning-driven VeriCall platform for real-time call authentication and fraud prevention. In this role, you will be a core part of the Engineering Team, where you can expect trust, respect, collaboration, and humor as you engage in creative exploration within the department that is the lifeblood of our organization. The Next Caller Data Science Team uncovers unique insights that drive Next Caller’s real-time, API-based authentication services in a serverless AWS environment to clients in the financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, and travel and hospitality industries. We are seeking someone who is excited by the challenge of staying several steps ahead of fraudsters, and relishes the opportunity to tackle and solve problems that others think are just too difficult...
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Training & Resources
Getting started with Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and OpenCV?
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BigBiGAN TF Hub Demo
We’ve released pre-trained BigBiGAN representation learning models...
Get access to the presentations from Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019
This is a repository of all the presentations from the Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019...
Books
The Lady Tasting Tea:
How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century An insightful, revealing history of how mathematics transformed our world...
"I have taken courses in statistics, taught it many times and solved several statistical problems that have appeared in journals. But until I read this book, I never really thought about it in so deep and philosophical a manner..."
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