David Lary

BigData | Machine Learning | Remote Sensing | Health Applications | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | IoT | Smart Cities | Professor at University of Texas at Dallas

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Asthma
'This is dangerous': Residents reveal breathing problems as smokey haze blankets Sydney
yahoo.com - Yahoo News Australia and agencies
Sydney residents woke to smoke blanketing the city for the second day in a row on Wednesday morning due to hazard reduction burning in the city’s …
DARPA
Six paths to the nonsurgical future of brain-machine interfaces
phys.org
DARPA has awarded funding to six organizations to support the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, first announced in March …
EPA
EPA Seeks Dramatic Change in Calculating Health Risks from Air Pollution
weather.com - Jan Wesner Childs
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to change the way health risks from air pollution are calculated, a move that could make toxic emissions …
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Major health warning is issued after Sydney is blanketed in a smoky haze for the second day running - and it could last the
dailymail.co.uk - Zoe Zaczek
A major health warning has been issued after a thick haze of smoke blanketed Sydney for the second day running. The city skyline and key landmarks …
Windows 10
How to Download the Windows 10 May 2019 Update
PCMag - Michael Kan
Microsoft is taking a 'measured and throttled approach' with the May release after a buggy version of the October 2018 update caused some users to …
Windows 10
Microsoft is rolling out a Windows 10 update with new security tools
CNBC - Jordan Novet
Microsoft on Tuesday said it's starting to release the first of two major Windows 10 updates for 2019 for all users. While Microsoft's growth is based …
Southern California
Small improvements to California’s air quality made a big difference in asthma rates
Popular Science - By Nicole Wetsman
Studies like these are crucial for public health officials and lawmakers, but future funding for them looks bleak. Over the past few decades, strict emissions and clean fuel rules in California have helped
ALTA 8 UAV - Dependable Drone with Exceptional Flight Times
freeflysystems.com
Each and every ALTA endures a barrage of component and system level tests designed to weed out items that do not meet our strict quality control …
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney is blanketed in a thick haze of smoke - and it could last for days
dailymail.co.uk - Zoe Zaczek
Sydney residents have been warned poor air quality could last for days after the city found itself covered by a thick haze of smoke. The city skyline …
Kaggle
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Feature Extraction
towardsdatascience.com - Rahul Agarwal
Creating automated features has its perks. But why would we data scientists be required if a simple library could do all our work? This is the section …
The Brain
Multi-Class classification with Sci-kit learn & XGBoost: A case study using Brainwave data
freecodecamp.org - Avishek Nag (Machine Learning expert)
A comparison of different classifiers’ accuracy & performance for high-dimensional data In Machine learning, classification problems with …
Prototypes
Brain-Controlled Hearing Aids Could Cut Through Crowd Noise
medium.com - Scientific American
A prototype detects whom you are listening to and amplifies only that speaker’s voice; a potential solution to the ‘cocktail party problem’ At a …
World News
Ohio school closes after radioactive chemicals detected
bbc.co.uk
A US middle school has closed for the remainder of the school year after authorities found it was contaminated with radioactive chemicals.
A Beginner’s Guide to Brain-Computer Interface and Convolutional Neural Networks
towardsdatascience.com - Alexandre Gonfalonieri
Can the mind connect directly with artificial intelligence, robots and other minds through brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies to transcend …
Computer Graphics
Introducing TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning
medium.com - TensorFlow
The last few years have seen a rise in novel differentiable graphics layers which can be inserted in neural network architectures. From spatial …
Algorithms
Introduction to Face Recognition
towardsdatascience.com - Vikas Solegaonkar
Face recognition is one of the many wonders that AI research has brought forward to the world. It is a subject of curiosity for many techies — who …
Deep Learning
Image Segmentation: Kaggle experience
towardsdatascience.com - Vlad Shmyhlo
What is image segmentation? It is a very common computer vision task in which you are asked to assign some label to each pixel in the image, …
DeepMind
How WaveNet Works
towardsdatascience.com - Jonathan Balaban
WaveNet is a powerful new predictive technique that uses multiple Deep Learning (DL) strategies from Computer Vision (CV) and Audio Signal Processing …
Travel
On board Switzerland's most luxurious (and spectacular) train journey
The Telegraph - By Juliet Rix
Dark mountainsides striped with pure white snow fill the panoramic windows and rise into the skylight before giving way to bright blue sky, marked only by a couple of strips of chiffon cloud running down
Classifying Facial Emotions via Machine Learning
towardsdatascience.com - Sumit Kumar Singh
An emotion is a mental and physiological state which is subjective and private. It involves a lot of behaviors, actions, thoughts and feelings. …
Chemical Engineering
UK drones map Chernobyl's 'Red Forest'
bbc.co.uk - By Jonathan Amos
Chernobyl's "Red Forest" - one of the most radioactive locations on Earth - has just been surveyed by UK scientists using a suite of drones.
Machine Learning
Democratising Machine learning with H2O
towardsdatascience.com - Parul Pandey
Overview of H2O: the open source, distributed in-memory machine learning platform It is important to make AI accessible to everyone for the sake of …
Search
Differentiable Architecture Search for RNN with fastai
towardsdatascience.com - Bao-Tin Hoang
Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) by Hanxiao Liu et al. is an algorithm to automate the process of architecture design for neural networks. …
Algorithms
Ensemble methods: bagging, boosting and stacking
towardsdatascience.com - Joseph Rocca
“Unity is strength”. This old saying expresses pretty well the underlying idea that rules the very powerful “ensemble methods” in machine learning. …
Probability
Markov Chains and HMMs
towardsdatascience.com - Maël Fabien
Let’s start by defining what a stochastic model is. It is essentially a discrete time process indexed at times 1,2,… that takes values, called …
PyTorch
Speedup your CNN using Fast Dense Feature Extraction and PyTorch
medium.com - Erez Posner
Back in March, we open-sourced our implementation of “Fast Dense Feature Extraction with CNN's that have Pooling or Striding Layers”, Although not …
PyTorch
State of the Art Audio Data Augmentation with Google Brain’s SpecAugment and Pytorch
towardsdatascience.com - Zach C
Google Brain recently published SpecAugment: A New Data Augmentation Method for Automatic Speech Recognition, which achieved state of the art results …
News
Nature crisis: 'Shocking' report details threat to species
bbc.co.uk - By Matt McGrath
On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report.
Australian National Parks
Sydney's air quality is three times too toxic as 'hazardous' blanket of smoke covers the city - and it could last for DAYS
dailymail.co.uk - Sahar Mourad
A thick layer of hazardous smoke has blanketed Sydney on Monday due to hazard reduction burns. The smoke haze is double the hazardous levels, with …
DARPA
How We'll Stop Chemical Attacks
Popular Mechanics - By Dan Dubno
DARPA has been testing equipment that can detect chemical ingredients in weapons and explosives—before they're used against us. And it’s almost ready to go. The scene isn’t all that hard to imagine. It’s