Machine Learning News Issue 44

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Machine Learning Solves Game Of Thrones Anxiety, Caterpillar's IoT Ambitions image courtesy HBO via TVline.com Now there is a mobile application that uses machine learning to predict the next death in Game of Thrones. Predicting how they die, like Jon Snow, maybe, would truly be a killer app... Intel announced 12,000 job cuts Wednesday as it changes focus from the microchips that drive personal computers to [...]

AI-On-A-Chip Soon Will Make Phones, Drones And More A Lot Smarter Movidius' Myriad 2 vision processing chip (Photo: Movidius) The branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning has given us new wonders such as self-driving cars and instant language translation on our phones. Now it's about to injects smarts into every other object imaginable. That's because makers of silicon processors from giants such [...]

Machine-learning tool mines lab notebooks for lessons from failed reactions A team of researchers has created a machine-learning tool to analyze failed chemical reactions. The system is designed to sift through misfires in researchers' lab notebooks in search of insights that can support more accurate predictions about what reactions are likely to work in the future.

DataRobot Looks to Cut Data Science Backlog The data science automation specialist DataRobot Inc. is gaining traction in the big data market for its machine-learning application as new investors like Intel Capital fund its expanding operations. Boston-based DataRobot has so far raised more than $57 million in four equity investment rounds, including a $33 million funding round completed in February.

A.I. Is Getting Better at Spotting Galaxies A computer can't match a human's ability to identify cosmic objects, but recent advances in machine learning are helping to close the gap. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now >

Does big data have a discrimination problem? Some say...maybe Big data is increasingly viewed as a strategic asset that can transform organizations through its use of powerful predictive technologies. But when it comes to systems that help make such decisions, the methods applied may not always seem fair and just to some, according to a panel of social researchers who study the impact of big data on public and society.

Woo's new matching algorithm matches candidates with jobs Woo, the platform that lets you find the right job without giving up personal information, is rolling out a matching algorithm to put you into a job faster. Using your skill-set and stated desires for your next job, Woo says it's data-driven matching has led to an 80 percent relevancy in matching candidates to jobs so far.

Why ONI May Be Our Best Hope for Cyber Security Now Huge volume of network data has made it all but impossible for the good guys to detect new security threats, which has created space for the bad guys to operate. But thanks to a new Apache big data project called Open Network Insight (ONI), the good guys now have a powerful way to cut through the noise and identify bad guys and their malicious schemes.

Predicting precision of movement tasks Even simple, frequently carried-out movement tasks like opening a door or grasping an object are sometimes realized better and sometimes worse, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes more precisely, sometimes less precisely. This variability in performance can be traced back in part to brain activity.

Pedro Domingos on Machine Learning and the Master Algorithm | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty EconTalk Episode with Pedro Domingos What is machine learning? How is it transforming our lives and workplaces? What might the future hold? Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington and author of The Master Algorithm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the present and future of machine learning.