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
Read more
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
Read more
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.
Read more
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. —
Read more
Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week, plus some new stuff from Friday and the weekend. NVIDIA Soars NVIDIA announces financial results for Q3: $2 billion in revenue, up 54% from last year Gross margin of 59% Earnings per share up 89% The company’s shares are up 30% since the announcement COB Thursday. Reporting in Forbes,
Read more
Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week, plus some new stuff from Friday and the weekend. The Next Platform publishes my three-part series on the state of enterprise machine learning. Part one is here. Part two is here. Part three is here. ICYMI: Top Stories of Last Week — IDC predicts worldwide spending on cognitive systems and
Read more
Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week. Plus some good reads, and special Halloween content. The featured image comes from MIT’s Nightmare Machine. Horrifying AI/ML/DL — Aussie bots that hunt down and kill small animals. — Bots with knives that cut flesh. — Machines that hunt and kill humans. — IBM Watson engines that profile you and sell
Read more
Top machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) stories from last week, plus new content from Friday and the weekend. The theme for featured images this week is art produced by deep learning. ICYMI: Top Stories of Last Week — AMD, Dell EMC, Google, HPE, IBM, Mellanox, Micron, NVIDIA, and Xilinx launch the OpenCAPI Consortium and industry group to promote specs
Read more
Top stories of the week, compiled from daily roundups. Top Reads How to steal a predictive model. Nicole Hemsoth describes 26 emerging applications for deep learning across business, scientific and engineering disciplines. Last week, she covered the next wave of deep learning architectures. Sebastian Raschka publishes Part III of his series on model evaluation, model selection and algorithm selection in
Read more