Artificial Intelligence

Most of the articles and news stories that I’ve read in January started out with some statement about how 2020 was wild/unprecedented/unpredictable/other adjective. So I’m going to skip that and jump right into things.At Flatland Data Solutions we’re optimistic that 2021 will bring some revolutionary changes and advancements into the Data and Machine Learning space. These are … [Read more...] about Data/Machine Learning trends to watch in 2021

Working as a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, Meredith Broussard works to research the role of artificial intelligence in the journalism world. In her piece, “Artificial Unintelligence,” she has the goal of telling the audience that technology isn’t our ‘future.’As great as it may seem, the talk around tech culture … [Read more...] about Artificial Unintelligence, by Meredith Broussard: Reflection and Response

How to Quickly Get Started with One of the Most Popular Machine Learning AlgorithmsPhoto by Austin Neill on UnsplashIn this tutorial we will see how to implement the Catboost machine learning algorithm in Python. We will give a brief overview of what Catboost is and what it can be used for before walking step by step through training a simple model including how to tune … [Read more...] about Catboost with Python: A Simple Tutorial

Photo by Michael Dziedzic on UnsplashIntelligence is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations (David G. Myers, Psychology 12 Edition). I refer to artificial intelligence (AI) systems as a collection of advanced technologies that allow machines to sense, comprehend, act, and learn.Machine learning and statistical models … [Read more...] about AI Inclusion / Selection Bias Challenge

In my opinion, these are the fundamental elements to understanding what’s going on in the world of neural networks.NodesWeights/connectionsLayersActivation functionsCost functionsForwards and backwards propagationLet’s start with an analogy. Imagine the process of training a neural network to be like driving from your home to the shops and back… Humour me… On the way to the … [Read more...] about Neural Networks in 5 minutes

M2M-100 can mostly perform so well because of the sheer number and assortment of language interpretations it prepared during advancement.Facebook utilized 2,200 sets of dialects to make the new model, a variety of 7.5 billion sentences incorporating most significant dialects, and a few that are not as broadly spoken.Generally, interpretation models are planned around a model … [Read more...] about Facebook Shares 100-Language Translation Model, First Without English Reliance

Researchers at Google and UC Berkeley developed, in late 2017, a new artificial intelligence technology able to generate realistic voices 100% synthesized by a computer.This technology is now in the wild and is being used to clone celebrities’ voices. After training the AI model in hundreds of hours of speeches by Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, or Boris Johnson, for instance, … [Read more...] about You can now clone the voice of any person dead or alive

Pinecone, a new startup from the folks who helped launch Amazon SageMaker, has built a vector database that generates data in a specialized format to help build machine learning applications faster, something that was previously only accessible to the largest organizations. Today the company came out of stealth with a new product and announced a $10 million seed investment led … [Read more...] about Pinecone lands $10M seed for purpose-built machine learning database – TechCrunch

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning more accurately, has truly spread across industries and business functions. Granted, with vast differences of maturity and success. What we’re seeing is that returns are coming from systems that have successfully built innovative models, built up an ML & Data Ops foundation to support continuous improvements, and a business model … [Read more...] about Fighting off ML Bias

- A strobogrammatic number is a number that looks the same when rotated 180 degrees (looked at upside down).- Write a function to determine if a number is strobogrammatic. The number is represented as a string.- https://leetcode.com/problems/strobogrammatic-number/Walk Through My ThinkingFacebook asks this question. It would be helpful to write out some numbers and rotate them … [Read more...] about How to Solve Python Coding Questions using Math