ML/DL

ICYMI: Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week. Note to readers: Due to the slower cadence of news as the holidays approach, the daily roundup will be on hiatus until January.  Watch for a roundup of the year in machine learning this week, and a look ahead to 2017. Thank you for reading. News — Microsoft

ICYMI: Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week. News — Baidu releases “Long Utterance,” a set of Chinese language APIs for its speech recognition technologies. — Max Kuhn, author of Applied Predictive Modeling and progenitor of the caret package for machine learning moves to RStudio. — At AWS’ re:Invent Conference, Databricks announces HIPAA compliance for its

ICYMI: Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week. News — Google announces a $4.5 million investment in the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. PR avalanche ensues. — In Investopedia, Richard Saintvilus chronicles the cloud machine learning wars. — Six months after releasing DSSTNE, an internally developed deep learning framework, AWS announces plans to standardize on MXNet.

ICYMI: Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week. News — On the AWS Compute Blog, Naveen Swamy and Joseph Spisak explain distributed deep learning with the AWS Deep Learning AMI. The AMI supports Caffe, CNTK/Microsoft Cognitive, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch. Product reviewers are underwhelmed, noting the absence of NVIDIA, CUDA, Anaconda or Python3 support. —