Editor's Picks
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History’s message about regulating AI
As we consider artificial intelligence, we would be wise to remember the lessons of earlier technology revolutions—to focus on the technology’s effects rather than chase broad-based fears about the technology itself...
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Highlights from the 2019 Google AI Residency Program
The program’s latest installment was our most successful yet, as residents advanced progress in a broad range of research fields, such as machine perception, algorithms and optimization, language understanding, healthcare and many more. Below are a handful of innovative projects from some of this year’s alumni...
A Message From This Week's Sponsor
Introducing Helix: the first dynamic data engine for data science teams
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Data Science Articles & Videos
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AI and Compute
We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012, the amount of compute used in the largest AI training runs has been increasing exponentially with a 3.4-month doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had a 2-year doubling period)...
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Key challenges for delivering clinical impact with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) research in healthcare is accelerating rapidly, with potential applications being demonstrated across various domains of medicine. However, there are currently limited examples of such techniques being successfully deployed into clinical practice. This article explores the main challenges and limitations of AI in healthcare, and considers the steps required to translate these potentially transformative technologies from research to clinical practice...
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The Measure of Intelligence
I've just released a fairly lengthy paper on defining & measuring intelligence, as well as a new AI evaluation dataset, the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus". I've been working on this for the past 2 years, on & off...
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Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need
Multi-head attention layers, as used in the Transformer neural sequence model, are a powerful alternative to RNNs for moving information across and between sequences. While training these layers is generally fast and simple, due to parallelizability across the length of the sequence, incremental inference (where such paralleization is impossible) is often slow, due to the memory-bandwidth cost of repeatedly loading the large "keys" and "values" tensors. We propose a variant called multi-query attention, where the keys and values are shared across all of the different attention "heads", greatly reducing the size of these tensors and hence the memory bandwidth requirements of incremental decoding...
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How should a Data Scientist's resume differ from an Academic CV?
Your academic cv is very coursework and research focused. You've heard business resumes need to be more action and results oriented, but you're not sure what that means for you. You're looking for advice on how to re-work your academic cv and not finding much advice out here. To help get you started, here are some thoughts on what you'll need to do...
Training
Create D3 Data Visualizations As Fast As You Can Sketch
You need to create a D3.js data visualization to communicate your insights. But... #d3BrokeAndMadeArt! This time, your data join appears to have broken and the JavaScript console shows an error you don't recognize. Last time, you got stuck trying to figure out how to make axes that didn't look like 3rd graded made them. It makes you want to strangle D3 with your bare hands. Just how steep does the D3 learning curve need to be?!
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Jobs
- 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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Training & Resources
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XLM-R: State-of-the-art cross-lingual understanding through self-supervision
A new model, called XLM-R, that uses self-supervised training techniques to achieve state-of-the-art performance in cross-lingual understanding, a task in which a model is trained in one language and then used with other languages without additional training data. Our model improves upon previous multilingual approaches by incorporating more training data and languages — including so-called low-resource languages, which lack extensive labeled and unlabeled data sets...
Books
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The Lady Tasting Tea:
How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
An insightful, revealing history of how mathematics transformed our world...
"I have taken courses in statistics, taught it many times and solved several statistical problems that have appeared in journals. But until I read this book, I never really thought about it in so deep and philosophical a manner..."...
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