Machine Learning News Issue 34

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Spark On Superdome X Previews In-Memory On The Machine Timothy Prickett Morgan As readers of The Next Platform are well aware, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is staking a lot of the future of its systems business on The Machine, which embodies the evolving concepts for disaggregated and composable systems that are heavy on persistent storage that sometimes functions like shared memory, on various kinds of compute, and on the interconnects between the two.

Artificial Intelligence Sheds New Light on the Origins of the Bible Twenty six hundred years ago, a band of Judahite soldiers kept watch on their kingdom's southern border in the final days before Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadnezzar. They left behind numerous inscriptions-and now, a groundbreaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers penned them.

Numenta Researchers Discover How the Brain Learns Sequences, a Key Ingredient of Intelligent Systems REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--()--How do our brains learn and understand the world? That question is of paramount importance to both neuroscientists and technologists who want to build intelligent machines. It has been understood for over a hundred years that the inputs and outputs of the brain are constantly changing sequences of patterns and therefore learning and recalling sequences must be a fundamental operation of neurons.

New AI tool claims to 'change the landscape of online ads' by connecting shoppers to goods using images - TechRepublic Imagine that you are searching for a brown leather sandal online. You know what it should look like, but don't know how to describe it. You search "brown sandal" in Google, which serves up many results-but none of them are it.

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Google Calendar's newest feature uses machine learning to help you actually accomplish your goals Google Calendar has launched a new feature called Goals that uses machine learning to help you figure out when you have time to pencil in stuff like spending time with your family or exercise. The feature is now available for Calendar's Android and iOS apps.

Machine learning applications: Mitigating the risks Machine learning is gaining widespread adoption by enterprises -- large and small. Three primary reasons why executives... want employees to use it are for cost savings, faster processing of massive data and faster discovery of new vulnerabilities. Large retailers use machine learning applications to find fraudulent transactions over ecommerce while preventing blocking of legitimate transactions.

Combating Distributed Malware Through Machine Learning - insideBIGDATA In this special guest feature, Karthik Krishnan, Vice President of Product Management at Niara , discusses how machine learning is an option that's gaining popularity to detect cyber attacks given its effectiveness in classifying and clustering attack activity, even within large event data streams. Karthik is responsible for driving product strategy and direction as well as customer engagements.

What Happens When You Apply Machine Learning To Logo Design The rise of neural networks and generative design have created new opportunities for designers. But what if it went the other way, and robots created a Skynet that kills off human designers (or at least their careers) once and for all? A heady question.

Machine Learning For Stock Trading Strategies In previous articles, we've defined some of the terms being thrown around lately like " machine learning" and " artificial intelligence". These disruptive technologies will soon change the world as we know it. While some pundits predicted that we were years away from a computer that could beat a human expert at "Go", this achievement was recently announced.