Blogs / posts / articles

• Does AI make strong tech companies stronger? - we should compare machine learning to SQL;
• Airport disrupted by drones;
• Netflix movie watched 45m times in a week?
• Yet another randomness in a competition;
• NIPS Conversational AI competition results - shake up, no technical details;
• Scientific programming in SWIFT???
• SkLearn drops python 2+ support;
• Age discrimination in tech;
• Ben Evans’ digest;
• SRGAN + Max Payne textures;
• Writing a cover letter to Google;

NLP

Sliced Recurrent Neural Networks

• Link:
• Sliced recurrent neural networks (SRNNs), which could be parallelized by slicing the sequences into many subsequences;
• Without changing the recurrent units, SRNNs are 136 times as fast as standard RNNs and could be even faster when we train longer sequences;
• Suitable only for classification;
• Comprable on long sequences and sentiment analysis - but much faster;
• Dilated CNNs are also comparable, but even 2x faster;
  
  

Datasets

• Largest camera network and reliability of detection CNNs;
• Tencent ML images updated - 17,609,752 training and 88,739 validation image URLs, which are annotated with up to 11,166 categories;

Trivia

• Optimizing … CV for job search;
• Rating recruiter pitches;

Papers

• Learning Not to Learn: Training Deep Neural Networks with Biased Data (link):
  • Interesting idea - if you have information on bias in your data, you can unlearn bias in data using adversarial training and KLD loss;
• http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02985

Competitions

• A new very long earthquake prediction competition on Kaggle;
• A new competition on DrivenData?

Hardware

• ML chip from Huawei?