• Increasing transparency with Google Cloud Explainable AI
  We are excited to announce our latest step in improving the interpretability of AI with Google Cloud AI Explanations. Explanations quantifies each data factor’s contribution to the output of a machine learning model. These summaries help enterprises understand why the model made the decisions it did. You can use this information to further improve your models or share useful insights with the model’s consumers....

• Deep Learning with PyTorch
  To help developers get started with PyTorch, we’re making the 'Deep Learning with PyTorch' book, written by Luca Antiga and Eli Stevens, available for free to the community...

• Safety Gym
  We’re releasing Safety Gym, a suite of environments and tools for measuring progress towards reinforcement learning agents that respect safety constraints while training...

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• Scientists have found 142 more ancient etchings in Peru.
  Now AI will speed up the hunt.
  Located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a collection of giant etchings that only make sense from a great height. Now AI is helping speed up the hunt for more hidden symbols—and has already had some success...

• It's Sony AI vs. Facebook, Google
  Sony Corp. has launched Sony AI, a new organization to pursue advanced R&D in artificial intelligence. With this move, the Japanese consumer electronics giant intends to go head-to-head with Google and Facebook, competing for AI talent and projects, and targeting a much bigger role in an ever-accelerating global AI race...

• How to recognize AI snake oil
  Much of what’s being sold as “AI” today is snake oil — it does not and cannot work. Why is this happening? How can we recognize flawed AI claims and push back?...

• Can AI Built to ‘Benefit Humanity’ Also Serve the Military?
  Microsoft’s recent victory in landing a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract called JEDI could make life more complicated for one of the software giant’s partners: the independent artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI...

• Lessons learned from building practical deep learning systems
  Slides from guest presentation at Full Stack Deep Learning...

• The 8 Minute Guide To How Your Business Can Solve Problems with AI and Machine Learning
  I present here a concise introduction to what machine learning and AI can do, right now. We’re not going to get bogged down in the math or programming techniques — the goal is to help you see what can be done so you can figure out how it might be applied to your business. Let’s get started...

• Teachable Machine
  Train a computer to recognize your own images, sounds, & poses. A fast, easy way to create machine learning models for your sites, apps, and more...

• RecSim: A Configurable Simulation Platform for Recommender Systems
  We have developed RecSim(available here), a configurable platform for authoring simulation environments to facilitate the study of RL algorithms in recommender systems (and CIRs in particular). RecSim allows both researchers and practitioners to test the limits of existing RL methods in synthetic recommender settings...

• Building A Data Science Portfolio Project Bottom Up
  You are going to build a data science portfolio in order to showcase your skills. You will use it in order to attract potential employers, as well as something to speak about during the actual interview. You have a few ideas of projects. The question now becomes, what do you do next... This article, will cover the basics of the bottom up approach - starting with the data...

 
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• Data Scientist - Driven Brands - Charlotte, NC
  
  The Data Scientist for Driven Brands focus will be responsible for providing reliable marketing, media and promotional performance analysis and reporting to Senior Executives and Business Unit Management to be used to make decisions impacting the performance of the business...

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• When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques
  In this article I’ll cover: Why you need RAM at all; The easiest way to process data that doesn’t fit in memory: spending some money; The three basic software techniques for handling too much data: compression, chunking, and indexing...

• TensorFlow Lite Transformers w/ Android demo
  Convert Transformers models imported from the 🤗 Transformers library and use them on Android. You can also check out our swift-coreml-transformers repo if you're looking for Transformers on iOS...

• Faster Neural Networks Straight from JPEG
  In this article, we describe an approach presented at NeurIPS 2018 for making CNNs smaller, faster, and more accurate all at the same time by hacking libjpeg and leveraging the internal image representations already used by JPEG, the popular image format...

• Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript:
  Scrape, Clean, Explore & Transform Your Data< Learn how to turn raw data into rich, interactive web visualizations with the powerful combination of Python and JavaScript. With this hands-on guide, author Kyran Dale teaches you how build a basic dataviz toolchain with best-of-breed Python and JavaScript libraries—including Scrapy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Flask, and D3—for crafting engaging, browser-based visualizations...
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