This article was posted by Ingrid Daubechies on Quanta Magazine. Ingrid is the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She served as president of the International Mathematical Union from 2011 to 2014.

Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.…

This article was posted by Adam Geitgey. Adam is Interested in computers and machine learning and he likes to write about it.

Speech recognition is invading our lives. It’s built into our phones, our game consoles and our smart watches. It’s even automating our homes. For just $50, you can get an Amazon Echo Dot — a magic box that…

This article was written by S. Richter-Walsh. S. Richter-Walsh likes to write about environmental science and also enjoy posting interesting data analyses and visualisations.

Introduction

A very useful machine learning method which, for its…

This article was written by John Hammink. John is Chief Evangelist for Treasure Data. An 18-year veteran of the technology and startup scene, he enjoys travel to unusual places, as well as creating digital art and world music.

With the explosion of “Big Data” over the last few years, the need for people who know how to build and manage data-pipelines has grown.  Unfortunately, supply has not kept up with demand and there seems to be a shortage of engineers focused on…