Web Directions has a call for local speakers to summit to their local Sydney Ai conference by the 30th of June 2018.
If you would like to speak yourself or for more info feel free to head check out the link here
Pytorch 0.40 has been released!
updates include Variables/Tensor merge, more numpy-likeness (dtypes, *_like, pro indexing…), much easier to write CPU/GPU agnostic code, gradient checkpointing for memory-efficient backprop, reduce=False, distributions and more
find out about it here:
A peak in trends in Machine Learning by Andrej Karpathy
link below:
The revolution will not be supervised.
“The revolution will not be supervised ” promises Facebook’s Yann Lecun in the launch of NYU’s AI seminar, links below:
Allen institute announces 125 Million funded research program to develop “common sense ai”
SML Nov 22nd 2017, “Predictive Policing” @ Google
Sydney Machine Learning was lucky enough to have Google host UNSW professors Dr Janet Chan & Dr Lyria Bennett Moses who discussed the societal impacts of – if “Big Data Analytics can predict policing practices”,
Videos & photos below:
PyTorch – One year in.
Looking back over one years worth of developments in the PyTorch community:
http://pytorch.org/2018/01/19/a-year-in.html
The Google Brain Team — Looking Back on 2017
30 Amazing machine learning projects from 2017
Algorithms are the new drugs, learning lessons from big pharma.
Learn about how algorithms should be regulated – just how modern medicine is today.
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