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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares
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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe Cambridge University Press This book …
Cultural over/under-fitting and transfer learning. Or why the “Netflix Culture” won’t work in your company.
medium.com
Xavier AmatriainBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 11 A couple of weeks back, I gave a talk in the SFELC (San Francisco Engineering Leadership …
Taxonomy
Multi-label Text Classification using BERT – The Mighty Transformer
medium.com
Kaushal TrivediBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 27 The past year has ushered in an exciting age for Natural Language Processing using deep neural …
Climate
Seven Fixes for American Capitalism
Bloomberg
For the past few decades there’s been a rough consensus about how to run a modern capitalist economy. Trade should be free. The gold standard is …
Data Science
Introduction to StanfordNLP with Python Implementation
analyticsvidhya.com
Opinion
A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities
The New York Times - By DHRUV KHULLAR
Artificial intelligence is beginning to meet (and sometimes exceed) assessments by doctors in various clinical situations. A.I. can now diagnose skin cancer like dermatologists, seizures like neurologists,
Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++
tylerayoung.com - tyler.a.young
Suppose you’re a savvy C++ developer who knows all about data-oriented design and the importance of optimizing for cache locality if you want a …
Code Coverage
Code Coverage
hackingthelibrary.org
09 Feb 2018 Your program implements functionality, aka behavior. Your test suite is supplementary code, that compares the actual behavior (from running …
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Population Mountains
pudding.cool
This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.
Software Development
Are your Python programs running slow? Here’s how you can make them 7x faster.
hackernoon.com
Rishabh AgrawalBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 17 We all know that Python is much slower than statically-typed programming languages like C, C++, …
Causal Inference With Python Part 1 - Potential Outcomes
degeneratestate.org
Business Intelligence
AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
stratechery.com - Ben Thompson
In 1999, music industry revenue in the United States peaked at $14.6 billion (all numbers are from the RIAA). It is important to be precise, though, …
What I've Learned About Optimizing Python
gregoryszorc.com
I've used Python more than any other programming language in the past 4-5 years. Python is the lingua franca for Firefox's build, test, and CI …
Words According to r/Vancouver [Part I], word2vec
medium.com
Jia ChenBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 7 I have always enjoyed some of the things on r/Vancouver, the subReddit. During the Xmas holiday, I thought …
GitHub
GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories
TNW - Matthew Hughes
GitHub is by far the most popular way to build and share software. That said, one weakness of the platform is that it limits who can create private repositories – that is, software projects that aren’t
Gaussian Processes are Not So Fancy
planspace.org
Let's use Equation 2.19 to make a prediction for this $ X_{\ast} $: We find the kernel similarities between the test point and each point of …
How To Unit Test Machine Learning Code
kdnuggets.com
By Chase Roberts, Machine Learning Engineer Over the past year, I’ve spent most of my working time doing deep learning research and internships. And a …
A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
jgoertler.com
Recall that in order to set up our distribution, we need to define \muand\Sigma. In Gaussian processes it is often assumed that\mu = 0, which …
Great Britain
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India
AlJazeera - Jason Hickel
And lied about it. There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything,
Technology
Wi-Fi 6 Explained: The Next Generation of Wi-Fi
TechSpot - Mark Turner
Wi-Fi is set to get better and faster with its upcoming major update. While plenty of routers are already available with chips using draft …
Congress May Have Fallen for Facebook’s Trap, but You Don’t Have To
The New York Times - By MICHAL KOSINSKI
In recent weeks, Facebook confronted yet another privacy scandal, in light of leaked court documents suggesting that its staff discussed the idea of selling user data as long ago as 2012. Facebook's director
Yuval Peres
wordpress.com - Lior Pachter
The post concerns Yuval Peres, a principal researcher in the Microsoft Theory Group and a former colleague of mine at UC Berkeley. Below is a copy of …
The internet is evolving: HTTP will no longer use TCP
TechSpot - Isaiah Mayersen
Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it’s built using Transmission Control …
One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
MIT Technology Review - by Will Knight
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race and make the technology more accessible to the developing world. Yoshua Bengio is a grand master …
On Disk IO, Part 3: LSM Trees
medium.com
αλεx πBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Sep 26, 2017 This blog posts were made while preparing a “What We Talk About When We Talk About On Disk IO” talk. …
Machine Learning
Cartoon: Machine Learning Problems in 2118
kdnuggets.com
By Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets. For Valentine's day, new KDnuggets cartoon looks at some problems Machine Learning can face in 2118. Female Robot: …
NLP & Healthcare: Understanding the Language of Medicine
medium.com
Xavier AmatriainBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Nov 5, 2018 At Curai we have a mission to scale the world’s best healthcare for every human being. We are …
A Review of the Neural History of Natural Language Processing - AYLIEN
aylien.com - Sebastian Ruder
This is the first blog post in a two-part series. The series expands on the Frontiers of Natural Language Processing session organized by Herman …
Compression could be machine learning's "killer app"
boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow
Pete Warden (previously) writes persuasively that machine learning companies could make a ton of money by turning to data-compression: for example, …
M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion
The New York Times - By STEVE LOHR
Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence — how to prepare students not only to harness the powerful tools of A.I., but also to thoughtfully

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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares

Cultural over/under-fitting and transfer learning. Or why the “Netflix Culture” won’t work in your company.

Multi-label Text Classification using BERT – The Mighty Transformer

Seven Fixes for American Capitalism

Introduction to StanfordNLP with Python Implementation

A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities

Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++

Code Coverage

Population Mountains

Are your Python programs running slow? Here’s how you can make them 7x faster.

Causal Inference With Python Part 1 - Potential Outcomes

AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source

What I've Learned About Optimizing Python

Words According to r/Vancouver [Part I], word2vec

GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

Gaussian Processes are Not So Fancy

How To Unit Test Machine Learning Code

A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

Wi-Fi 6 Explained: The Next Generation of Wi-Fi

Congress May Have Fallen for Facebook’s Trap, but You Don’t Have To

Yuval Peres

The internet is evolving: HTTP will no longer use TCP

One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future

On Disk IO, Part 3: LSM Trees

Cartoon: Machine Learning Problems in 2118

NLP & Healthcare: Understanding the Language of Medicine

A Review of the Neural History of Natural Language Processing - AYLIEN

Compression could be machine learning's "killer app"

M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion