Machine Learning News Issue 18

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San Fran Art Exhibit Features Google Neural Network Google's AI program may find its place in art history, somewhere between M. C. Escher and Salvador Dali. San Francisco's Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and Research at Google are hosting a weekend-long exhibition, featuring the illustrations of Google's artificial neural network (ANN).

There would be 2 major downsides if Apple made iCloud literally impossible to hack Apple has signaled that it plans to upgrade the security on its iCloud cloud service so that even Apple can't access the data it's storing. From the Financial Times: Apple is working on new ways to strengthen the encryption of customers' iCloud backups in a way that would make it impossible for the company to comply with valid requests for data from law enforcement, according to people familiar with its plans.

Machine Learning: Let Your Code Learn From Text - Code School Blog Machine learning - it's a term you've probably heard before. Nowadays, it's deeply integrated in different sectors, from spam filters to automated driving cars. There is a lot of math and statistics behind these algorithms, but today there are many great tools we can use without being a math professor.

Log5, the Logit Link and Bradley-Terry Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions. Companies, organizations and researchers post their data and have it scrutinized by the world's best statisticians.

Video: HPC, Deep Learning and GPUs - insideHPC "From image recognition in social media to self-driving cars and medical image processing, deep learning is everywhere in our daily lives. Learn about recent advancements in deep learning that have been made possible by improvements in algorithms, numerical methods, and the availability of large amounts of data for training, as well as accelerated computing solutions based on GPUs.

Microsoft has a shot at inventing the future with its artificial intelligence efforts Microsoft has a shot at inventing the future before its other, buzzier rivals - like Google, Amazon, or Apple - do, thanks to the company's investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning research. That's right: After years of missteps (think Windows Phone or Windows 8), company feuds, and being sidelined behind Apple, Google, and everyone else, Microsoft may actually be about to come out on top.

The Morning Download: Microsoft Says Machine Learning Is Key to New Security Efforts Microsoft, which has struggled to protect its platforms from hackers, is among a growing number of companies to apply machine learning to security. "We can be much more predictive about security than we've been in the past," Pete Boden, Microsoft's general manager of Cloud and Enterprise Security, tells the WSJ.

How Blockchain Technology Can Enhance Fraud Detection is a fraud detection startup that uses machine learning and big data science to make commerce safe. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Mateo, Feedzai aims to transform the management of risk and fraud into a real-time decision science to help payment providers, banks and merchants prevent criminal behavior in omnichannel commerce.

Machine Learning Is Not The Answer To Better Network Security Machine learning isn't a silver bullet for network security. I know, right now you're saying "But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot new company in the space is based on machine learning and that VCs are funding machine learning companies in record numbers, even with the economy in question."

How IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon do machine learning in the cloud For any cloud to be taken seriously, it has to meet an ever rising bar of features. Machine learning seems to be on that list, as all the major cloud providers now feature it. But how they go about doing it is another story. Aside from the "curated API vs.