Dr. Richard W. Hamming was one of those famous guys at Bell Labs during its heyday. Throughout his later career he gave a talk titled You and Your Research which is available in various forms on the internet. I highly recommend setting aside half an hour and reading it …
read moreUnderstanding the content of an image is a long-standing challenge in computer vision. In the last five years, the state-of-the art has advanced far beyond scanning checks and facial recognition to the point where, on certain benchmarks, object classification performed by a machine exceeds human level accuracy.
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read moreThere are tons of AlphaGo thinkpieces so I'll refer you to Google for those. Here are two I like.
Briefly, suppose you didn't know anything about Poker but still wanted to play. If you were presented with possible moves you could make at each …
read moreThere are tons of great PyCon talks on YouTube and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's out there but here are a few that struck me.
Keynote - EuroSciPy 2015 - Pieter Hintjens
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[Note: This post started out as a letter to a friend who's looking to get into Data Science. It goes without saying it's all my opinion.]
Data science is very popular...too popular! I'm concerned it'll all collapse in a few years either because expectations are too high, or, more …
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