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Will all that data in the hands of Google or Facebook lead to a good result or bad?

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Two years ago Google X, the moonshot lab within Google prepared a speculative 9 minute video for in-house consumption called "The Selfish Ledger".  Recently the video was leaked and found its way…Continue

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We See in 3D – So Should Our CNN Models

Summary:  Autonomous vehicles (AUVs) and many other systems that need to accurately perceive the world around them will be much better off when image classification moves from 2D to 3D.  Here we examine the two leading approaches to 3D classification, Point Clouds and Voxel Grids. One of the well-known problems in CNN image classification is that because the CNN…See More
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The Coming Revolution in Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs)

Summary: Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs) are at the core of the most common AI applications in use today but we are rapidly recognizing broad time series problem types where they don’t fit well.  Several alternatives are already in use and one that’s just been introduced, ODE net is a radical departure from our way of thinking about the solution. Recurrent Neural Nets (RNNs)…See More
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Faster Better Cheaper Image Recognition

Summary:  In the literal blink of an eye, image-based AI has gone from high cost, high risk projects to quick and reasonably reliable.  C-level execs looking for AI techniques to exploit need to revisit their assumptions and move these up the list.  Here’s what’s changed. For data scientists these are miraculous times.  We tend to think of miracles as something that occurs instantaneously but in our world that’s not quite so.  Still the rate of change in deep learning, particularly in image…See More
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NLP Picks Bestsellers – A Lesson in Using NLP for Hidden Feature Extraction

Summary:  99% of our application of NLP has to do with chatbots or translation.  This is a very interesting story about expanding the bounds of NLP and feature creation to predict bestselling novels.  The authors created over 20,000 NLP features, about 2,700 of which proved to be predictive with a 90% accuracy rate in predicting NYT bestsellers. It’s a pretty rare…See More
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NLP Picks Bestsellers – A Lesson in Using NLP for Hidden Feature Extraction

Summary:  99% of our application of NLP has to do with chatbots or translation.  This is a very interesting story about expanding the bounds of NLP and feature creation to predict bestselling novels.  The authors created over 20,000 NLP features, about 2,700 of which proved to be predictive with a 90% accuracy rate in predicting NYT bestsellers. It’s a pretty rare…See More
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Where and How is AI Actually Being Adopted

Summary:  Adoption of AI/ML by larger companies has more than doubled since last year according to these survey results from McKinsey and Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.  This new data gives us a much better idea of which global regions and which industries are adopting which AI/ML techniques. We know we’ve entered the era of exploitation of AI/ML but the $64…See More
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From Optimization to Prescriptive Analytics

Summary:  True prescriptive analytics requires the use of real optimization techniques that very few applications actually use.  Here’s a refresher on optimization with examples of where and how they’re best used. Predictive analytics and optimization have gone hand in hand since the very beginning.  But in 2014 some erudite journal decided we needed another phrase for…See More
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We See in 3D – So Should Our CNN Models

Posted on September 23, 2019 at 2:24pm 0 Comments

Summary:  Autonomous vehicles (AUVs) and many other systems that need to accurately perceive the world around them will be much better off when image classification moves from 2D to 3D.  Here we examine the two leading approaches to 3D classification, Point Clouds and Voxel Grids.

 

One of the well-known…

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NLP Picks Bestsellers – A Lesson in Using NLP for Hidden Feature Extraction

Posted on September 3, 2019 at 7:35am 0 Comments

Summary:  99% of our application of NLP has to do with chatbots or translation.  This is a very interesting story about expanding the bounds of NLP and feature creation to predict bestselling novels.  The authors created over 20,000 NLP features, about 2,700 of which proved to be predictive with a 90% accuracy rate in predicting NYT bestsellers.

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Automated Machine Learning for Professionals - Updated

Posted on August 5, 2019 at 7:11am 0 Comments

Summary: As the Automated Machine Learning (AML) movement got underway a few years back there was an early branch between proprietary platforms and open source platforms.  In this article we’ll update you on leading open source AML tools.  Since they continue to require fluency in Python or R we label them “professional”.

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Calibrated Quantum Mesh – Better Than Deep Learning for Natural Language Search

Posted on July 29, 2019 at 8:02am 0 Comments

Summary:  Move over RNN/LSTM, there’s a new algorithm called Calibrated Quantum Mesh that promises to bring new levels of accuracy to natural language search and without labeled training data.

 

There’s a brand new algorithm for natural language search (NLS) and natural language understanding (NLU) that not…

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At 9:08pm on July 27, 2015, Ziauddin Syed said…

Dear William,

Congratulation to you on your promotion to Editorial Director for the Data Science Central Network (DSC). 

Regards,

Zia

 
 
 

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