Machine Learning News Issue 42

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Machine learning could become powerful tool in plastic surgery With an ever-increasing volume of electronic data being collected by the healthcare system, researchers are exploring the use of machine learning-a subfield of artificial intelligence-to improve medical care and patient outcomes.

Machine Learning Breaks Bottleneck In Gathering Valuable Information About Cancer Machine learning applied to free-text pathology reports is shown to break a bottleneck that interferes with the process of turning electronically gathered clinical records into information that has widespread value in the healthcare industry.

The new face of data leaks is fuzzy I dare say nobody wants to be the target of malicious hackers, and certainly doesn't want private data out there in the hands of unknown third parties. As individuals, we keep secret our most personal information - bank accounts, passwords and medical information - because we know it can be used against us.

How Comcast Uses Data Science and ML to Improve the Customer Experience Summary Jan Neumann presents how Comcast uses machine learning and big data processing to facilitate search for users, for capacity planning, and predictive caching. Jan Neumann is a manager in the Comcast Labs DC research group developing novel solutions for big data analysis, recommendation systems, intelligent image understanding and automatic content extraction from video.

Top /r/MachineLearning Posts, April: New Google Machine Learning Videos, Deep Learning Book, TensorFlow Playground Check out the most popular topics on Reddit's Machine Learning subreddit from April, including TensorFlow, deep learning, tutorials, self-reflection, and free books. April on /r/MachineLearning brings top posts in deep learning video tutorials and books, the TensorFlow Playground, deep conversation centered on an xkcd comic from 2014, Microsoft cognitive APIs, and a meta-conversation on the subreddit's direction.

Uber Will Use Machine Learning To Reduce Surge Pricing Many consider surge pricing to be one of the negative points of Uber. The ride-sharing service maintains that surge pricing allows it to ensure that passengers can always get a ride when they need ...

White House to bring us up to speed on artificial intelligence hype latest The Obama administration says it wants everyone to take a closer look at artificial intelligence with a series of public discussions. The workshops will examine if AI will suck jobs out of the economy or add to it, how such systems can be controlled legally and technically, and whether or not such smarter computers can be used as a social good.

IBM Watson IoT - What is Watson IoT Learn about how IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) is helping provide every object, product, process and service the ability to think.

Machine Learning Opens Up Cloud Opportunity For GPUs Machine learning - software that gets smarter by learning from data - is exploding in popularity. To keep up, servers - the workhorse of the Internet - will have to get a lot smarter. Specifically, they'll need greater computing horsepower to process image, voice and other forms of cognitive workloads.

Interview: Otto combining machine learning with people power - Essential Retail Michael Sinn, vice president of category support at Otto Group, on the need to boost data science skills in retail and how employees can work alongside machine-learning systems for the betterment of business.