Machine Learning News Issue 59

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What are the Best Machine Learning Packages in R? Guest post by Khushbu Shah The most common question asked by prospective data scientists is - "What is the best programming language for Machine Learning?" The answer to this question always results in a debate whether to choose R, Python or MATLAB for Machine Learning.

Demystifying Machine Learning I attended a security panel recently where the panelists were asked what areas or approaches in security, if any, were over-hyped. One of the panelists, the CISO of a well-regarded Valley startup, said "Machine Learning. If a vendor comes in and starts talking about how they use Machine Learning, I start tuning out."

Accelerating Connected Car Data Science & Machine Learning - Hortonworks According to Gartner Research, by 2020 the total number of connected cars will be nine times more than that of 2015. Additionally, 80% of all new vehicles will have data connectivity, 30% of connected-vehicles will have built-in, over-the-air software capabilities, and over one billion connected automotive subsystems will be shipped.

A log entry of the Mad Machine Learning Scientist of Cybercom 2016-06-07, 12:36 Posted by: Tero Keski-Valkama We have a reference implementation of a deep reinforced learning machine: The human brain. The brain does not take gigawatts of power, and it is not made of exotic and expensive materials; in fact, it is made of fats and proteins.

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making is part of the BMC series which publishes subject-specific journals focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. We offer an efficient, fair and friendly peer review service, and are committed to publishing all sound science, provided that there is some advance in knowledge presented by the work.

Google's machine learning app can now take over your iPhone Imagine Siri repeating 'I love Steve Jobs' forever

AI, Machine Learning Take Center Seat at Code Conference Artificial Intelligence and machine learning were the big themes at last week's Code Conference, just like most of the similar conferences I've attended this year. It's a topic on everyone's mind, driven by huge advances in hardware. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning were the big themes at last week's Code Conference, just like most of the similar conferences I've attended this year.

Deep learning helps to map Mars and analyze its surface chemistry Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mount Holyoke College are teaming up to apply recent advances in machine learning, specifically biologically inspired deep learning methods, to analyze large amounts of scientific data from Mars.

LinkedIn Adds to Growing List of ML Tools LinkedIn is releasing to the open source community its machine-learning tool used to train the ranking algorithm for its newsfeed, advertising and customer recommendations. The world's largest professional network (NYSE: LNKD) said Tuesday (June 7) its Apache Spark-based machine learning library dubbed Photon ML would give data scientists a more accurate picture of underlying datasets as they train algorithms to parse the backgrounds of individual users.

Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Models by Max Kuhn: Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer Many predictive and machine learning models have structural or tuning parameters that cannot be directly estimated from the data. For example, when using K-nearest neighbor model, there is no analytical estimator for K (the number of neighbors).