HOW LEO AND GERTRUDE STEIN REVOLUTIONIZED THE ART WORLD
If Picasso and Matisse were rivals from almost the first moment each knew of the other’s existence, the contest was driven as much by those cheering from the sidelines as by their own considerable egos. It was Montmartre versus the Latin Quarter, the bande à Picasso versusthe Fauves, the dark voodoo of the Spaniard versus the Apollonian grace of the Frenchman. For the most part the competition was respectful, but it could occasionally devolve into childish stunts.
Read moreHOW EINSTEIN LOST HIS BEARINGS, AND WITH THEM, GENERAL RELATIVITY
Albert Einstein released his general theory of relativity at the end of 1915. He should have finished it two years earlier. When scholars look at his notebooks from the period, they see the completed equations, minus just a detail or two. “That really should have been the final theory,” said John Norton, an Einstein expert and a historian of science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Read moreHOW AMAZON BECAME CORPORATE AMERICA’S NIGHTMARE
It sells soap and produces televised soap operas. It sells complex computing horsepower to the U.S. government and will dispatch a courier to deliver cold medicine on Christmas Eve. It’s the third-most-valuable company on Earth, with smaller annual profits than Southwest Airlines Co., which as of this writing ranks 426th. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person, his fortune built on labor conditions that critics say resemble a Dickens novel with robots, yet he has enough mainstream appeal to play himself in a Super Bowl commercial. Amazon was born in cyberspace, but it occupies warehouses, grocery stores, and other physical real estate equivalent to 90 Empire State Buildings, with a little left over.
Read moreSEQUENCE TAGGING WITH TENSORFLOW
I remember the first time I heard about the magic of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP). I was just starting a project with a young French startup Riminder and it was the first time I heard about word embeddings. There are moments in life when the confrontation with a new theory seems to make everything else irrelevant. Hearing about word vectors that encode similarity and meaning between words was one of these moments. I was baffled by the simplicity of the model as I started to play with these new concepts, building my first recurrent neural network for sentiment analysis. A few months later, as part of the master thesis of my master in the French university Ecole polytechnique I was working on more advanced models for sequence tagging at Proxem.
Read moreDEEP NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTED IN PURE SQL OVER BIGQUERY
In this post, we’ll implement a deep neural network with one hidden layer (and ReLu and softmax activation functions) purely in SQL. The end-to-end steps for neural network training including the forward pass and back-propagation will be implemented as a single SQL query on BigQuery. As it runs on Bigquery, in effect we are performing distributed neural network training on 100s to 1000s of servers.
Read moreUSING GOOGLE CLOUD AUTOML TO CLASSIFY POISONOUS AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS
Google’s new Cloud AutoML Vision is a new machine learning service from Google Cloud that aims to make state of the art machine learning techniques accessible to non-machine learning experts. In this post I will show you how I was able, in just a few hours, to create a custom image classifier that is able to distinguish between different types of poisonous Australian spiders. I didn’t have any data when I started and it only required a very basic understanding of machine learning related concepts.
Read moreAUTISM’S SOCIAL DEFICITS IN ANIMAL MODEL ARE REVERSED BY AN ANTI-CANCER DRUG
New research reveals the first evidence that it may be possible to use a single compound to alleviate the behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder by targeting sets of genes involved in the disease. The research demonstrated that brief treatment with a very low dose of romidepsin, an anti-cancer drug, restored social deficits in animal models of autism in a sustained fashion.
Read moreHOW CHEESE, WHEAT AND ALCOHOL SHAPED HUMAN EVOLUTION
As our evolution continues, the crucial role of diet hasn’t gone away. Genetic studies show that humans are still evolving, with evidence of natural selection pressures on genes impacting everything from Alzheimer’s disease to skin color to menstruation age. And what we eat today will influence the direction we will take tomorrow. Source: smithsonianmag.com
DIGITISING BOOKS AS OBJECTS: THE INVISIBLE MADE VISIBLE
Technology has improved immensely since then and a lot of ‘ink’ has been spread across physical and virtual pages about the remit, the limitations and the advantages of what is offered to the public through the surrogates uploaded onto countless web portals. This piece is just another little drop into this ocean of ink to share some considerations built upon experience and from the perspective of a book conservator who sees, because of his professional background, the limitations of this, but also the exciting challenges to overcome them.
Read moreTHE NEXUS LINKING IBM, CALIFORNIA WINE, AND CLIMATE MODELING
By 2015, Hamann says, the technology—which uses machine learning to extract insights from multiple layers of information—proved itself. Gallo improved yields on the test site while reducing water use. The partnership quickly found another use for IBM’s AI: analyzing a number of variablessuch as proximity to the winery, weather patterns, elevation, days of sunshine, and other factors toidentify suitable locations for new vineyards.
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