• Paving the Way to Google!
  Lessons I Learned From Many Data Science Interviews...

• How to respond to climate change, if you are an algorithm
  We ran our youth essay question through an artificial-intelligence system to produce an essay...

• Building AI to inform people's fashion choices
  An AI system that proposes easy changes to a person’s outfit to make it more fashionable. Our Fashion++ system uses a deep image-generation neural network to recognize garments and offer suggestions on what to remove, add, or swap. It can also recommend ways to adjust a piece of clothing, such as tucking in a shirt or rolling up the sleeves...

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• Teaching AI to plan using language in a new open-source strategy game
  Facebook AI has developed a new method of teaching AI to plan effectively, using natural language to break down complex problems into high-level plans and lower-level actions. Our system innovates by using two AI models — one that gives instructions in natural language and one that interprets and executes them — and it takes advantage of the structure in natural language in order to address unfamiliar tasks and situations. We’ve tested our approach using a new real-time strategy game called MiniRTSv2, and found it outperforms AI systems that simply try to directly imitate human gameplay...

• Streamlit launches open-source ML application development framework
  Streamlit, a new ML startup from industry veterans who worked at GoogleX and Zoox, launched today with a $6 million seed investment and a flexible new open-source tool to make it easier for machine learning engineers to create custom applications to interact with the data in their models...

• Visualizing a Neural Net Controlling an Interplanetary Spacecraft Trajectory
  I made this visualization from a research paper I wrote, Neural Network Based Optimal Control: Resilience to Missed Thrust Events for Long Duration Transfers. It's made by simulating a Mars to Earth Trajectory and letting the neural network control the spacecrafts thrust and flight path angle. It's made using Matlab...

• How to Evaluate the Logistic Loss and not NaN trying
  A naive implementation of the logistic regression loss can results in numerical indeterminacy even for moderate values. This post takes a closer look into the source of these instabilities and discusses more robust Python implementations...

• At Tech’s Leading Edge, Worry About a Concentration of Power
  The rapidly increasing costs of AI research is further concentrating computational resources within BigTech companies and creating additional barriers to entry for smaller actors...

• YouTube experimenting with ways to make its algorithm even more addictive
  Publicly, the platform says it’s trying to do what it can to minimize the amplification of extreme content. But it’s still looking for ways to keep users on the site...

• FSA-Net: Learning Fine-Grained Structure Aggregation for Head Pose Estimation from a Single Image
  This paper proposes a method for head pose estimation from a single image. Previous methods often predicts head poses through landmark or depth estimation and would require more computation than necessary. Our method is based on regression and feature aggregation...

• Hamiltonian Graph Networks with ODE Integrators
  We introduce an approach for imposing physically informed inductive biases in learned simulation models. We combine graph networks with a differentiable ordinary differential equation integrator as a mechanism for predicting future states, and a Hamiltonian as an internal representation. We find that our approach outperforms baselines without these biases in terms of predictive accuracy, energy accuracy, and zero-shot generalization to time-step sizes and integrator orders not experienced during training...

• How much Math & Stats do I need on my Data Science resume?
  Do I need a strong math background to pursue a career as a data scientist? We see a lot of questions like this. Its hard when you're trying to break into the field to know exactly how much math & stats you need. And, part of the reason for that is that it really depends...

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• Stabilizing Generative Adversarial Network Training: A Survey
  The process of training GANs remains challenging, suffering from instability issues such as mode collapse and vanishing gradients. This survey summarizes the approaches and methods employed for the purpose of stabilizing GAN training procedure. We provide a brief explanation behind the workings of GANs and categorize employed stabilization techniques outlining each of the approaches. Finally, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the methods, offering a comparative summary of the literature on stabilizing GAN training procedure...

• Self-managing serverless computing with Bigmachine
  Today we open sourced two pieces of our compute infrastructure stack: Bigmachine and Bigslice...

• Deploy machine learning models in production
  Cortex is an open source machine learning deployment platform that makes it simple to deploy your machine learning models as web APIs on AWS...

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