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3 Takes on Debugging Machine Learning
S. Zayd Enam: The difficulty is that machine learning is a fundamentally hard debugging problem. Debugging for machine learning happens in two cases: 1) your algorithm doesn’t work or 2) your algorithm doesn’t work well enough. What is unique about … Continue reading
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Current Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Andrew Ng: Surprisingly, despite AI’s breadth of impact, the types of it being deployed are still extremely limited. Almost all of AI’s recent progress is through one type, in which some input data (A) is used to quickly generate some simple response (B)… … Continue reading
The Smart Speakers Market
A new study by Juniper Research has found that revenue from smart audio hardware will more than triple over the next four years, rising from an estimated $1.4 billion this year to over $5.5 billion by 2020. While Juniper … Continue reading
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Predicting the Presidential Election: What Went Wrong? (Part 2)
Wall Street Journal: When asked about what qualities matter most, about four in 10 people picked the ability to bring about change, and Mr. Trump won more than 80% of their votes. Mrs. Clinton was heavily favored by voters who … Continue reading
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Predicting the Presidential Election: What Went Wrong?
KDnuggets: …a good lesson for Data Scientists is to question their assumptions and to be especially skeptical when predicting a rare event with limited history using human behavior.
Machine Learning and AI Market Landscape, 2016
Shivon Zilis and James Cham, O’Reilly: For the first time, a “one stop shop” of the machine intelligence stack is coming into view—even if it’s a year or two off from being neatly formalized. The maturing of that stack might explain why … Continue reading
Country Ranking of IoT Preparedness
IDC: [This is an] updated index ranking the Group of 20 (G20) nations on their preparedness for Internet of Things (IoT) development. The original index was first published in 2013 but this updated index is now comprised of 13 criteria … Continue reading
Mobile advertising now accounts for nearly half of online ad budgets
Financial Times: Spending on mobile advertising in the US soared 89 per cent to $15.5bn in the first half of the year, taking up nearly half of online ad budgets, new data show. Mobile makes up 47 per cent of … Continue reading
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