• AR Cut & Paste [Twitter Thread]
  An AR+ML prototype that allows cutting elements from your surroundings and pasting them in an image editing software....

• Can AI Become Conscious?
  At the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, a large-scale effort is underway to understand how the 86 billion neurons in the human brain are connected. The aim is to produce a map of all the connections: the connectome. Scientists at the Institute are now reconstructing one cubic millimeter of a mouse brain, the most complex ever reconstructed. Mapping how exactly the brain is wired will help us to understand how healthy brains function, and what goes wrong in diseased brains...

• Quarantine Isn’t Making Us Gain Weight or Slow Down
  Are stay-at-home orders causing us to gain weight and lose activity? Are we sleeping less and checking our temperatures more? Working out or hardly working? We dove into data from around the world to find out...

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• ICLR2020 Videos are now online
  Eighth international conference on learning representations public archive...

• Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow
  First off let me give you an introduction about openpilot, openpilot is a open source self driving car software developed by comma.ai...So to explain the whole flow all together: image -> ubuntu laptop -> predictions with the model -> converting all the long and lateral control output -> sending it over my local network with zmq to my gaming pc -> gaming pc is emulating the xbox controller inputs -> driving in GTA!...

• MIT EI Seminar - Max Welling - Learning equivariant and hybrid message passing on graphs [Video]
  In this talk I will extend graph neural nets in two directions. First, we will ask if we can formulate a GNN on meshes of two dimensional manifolds...Second we will study how to incorporate information about the data generating process into GNNs. ...

• ALMa: Active Learning (Data) Manager
  Active Learning is a popular technique to reduce annotation costs by using AI to decide what to label next. The subtle bookkeeping involved in keeping track of what has been labeled is tedious and error prone. We need to train our learner on Labeled data, but sample new examples to label from Unlabeled data. As we label data it moves around between the two subsets of our Dataset and managing the bookkeeping a chore that should be abstracted away...Today we're happy to open-source ALMa the Active Learning Manager that abstracts away the bookkeeping. Whereas most implementations modify the data array in place, ALMa maintains views of Labeled and Unlabeled subsets of the original Dataset...

• Let's AI Podcast Interview: Professor James Zou and Dr. Irena Fisher-Hwang on Data Science and AI for COVID-19
  Stanford AI Lab PhD Andrey Kurenkov interviews Professor James Zou and Doctor Irena Fisher-Hwang about their new class CS472: Data Science and AI for COVID-19...

• "This Word Does Not Exist" Project
  I've been working on this word does not exist. In it, I "learned the dictionary" and trained a GPT-2 language model over the Oxford English Dictionary. Sampling from it, you get realistic sounding words with fake definitions and example usage...On the website, I've also made it so you can prime the algorithm with a word, and force it to come up with an example...The project allows people to train a variant of GPT-2 that makes up words, definitions and examples from scratch..

• How to read deep learning papers? [Reddit Discussion]
  I've been reading some deep learning papers and it seems like a lot of the choice of architecture is wishy-washy stuff that we just have to "accept" for some reason. I know that explaining a deep network is almost impossible, but that makes it really difficult to decide whether a given network outperforms another, especially when considering artificial data sets...In short, everything seems like it's a question of throwing more layers at the problem until you reach some sort of solution that you can claim is "better" than others', except since nothing is standardized, even for a particular type of problem, it can result in widely varying results and reproducibility...How do you manage this?...

• A Commit History of BERT and its Forks
  I recently came across an interesting thread on Twitter discussing a hypothetical scenario where research papers are published on GitHub and subsequent papers are diffs over the original paper. Information overload has been a real problem in ML with so many new papers coming every month...This post is a fun experiment showcasing how the commit history could look like for the BERT paper and some of its subsequent variants...

• Farewell, TensorFlow
  Friday was my last day working on TensorFlow at Google. The past five years were a lot of fun, and I feel incredibly lucky to have been in the war room at 6 AM when we launched the project into the world. Since then, it’s been inspiring to see how people have used TensorFlow, from all the folks asking questions on Stack Overflow, through the machine learning and systems research that built on our work, to the huge software ecosystem that has grown up around it...Before I move on, I wanted to reminisce about what I enjoyed most about working at Google...

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• Neural Networks From Scratch [Videos]
  Building neural networks from scratch in Python introduction...

• Feature Stores for ML
  List of feature stores, articles, videos, tutorials, etc about Feature Stores for ML! ...

• A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
  These six brief videos, recorded in 2020, contain ideas and suggestions from Professor Strang about the recommended order of topics in teaching and learning linear algebra. The first topic is called A New Way to Start Linear Algebra. The key point is to start right in with the columns of a matrix A and the multiplication Ax that combines those columns...

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