Tag: Deep Learning

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($14.99)  and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-)  versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width font ‘Lucida Console’. In addition line numbers have been added to all code snippets. This makes the code more organized and much more readable. I have also fixed typos in the book The book includes the following chapters Table of Contents Preface 4 Introduction 6 ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances are available in the Europe (Paris) AWS Region and Amazon EC2 R5d Instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d all have local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. These instances are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, to temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and to high-speed caches and scratch files. C5d instances are ideal for applications such as high performance web servers, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. The opportunity to watch and coach the University of San Francisco (USF) students during our annual Hackathon with our friends at Good Dataprobably taught me as much as it taught the students. The lessons learned I’ll share here will not only benefit future classes, but my customers.  It also gives me an opportunity to make special mention of one Hackathon team that really delivered the goods! This year’s Hackathon focused on analyzing air traffic delays (a subject area with which I unfortunately consider myself an expert).  We used data ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Deep Learning AMIs also support other popular frameworks and interfaces including TensorFlow, Keras, Gluon, and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) — pre-installed and fully-configured for you to start developing your deep learning models in minutes while taking full advantage of the computational power of Amazon EC2 instances. When you activate a Conda environment, the Deep Learning AMIs automatically deploy higher-performance builds of frameworks, optimized for the EC2 instance of your choice. For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning AMI, see the release notes. Get started quickly with the AWS Deep Learning ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ayush Srivastava. Since the industrial revolution, humanity has made tremendous progress in manufacturing. With time we have seen more and more of mundane manual work being replaced by automation through advanced engineering, computers, robotics and now IoT. We believe that recent advances in AI (or Deep Learning to be more precise) will help accelerate this trend towards automation in a fascinating way. This is because AI adds one very critical component that the factories have been missing till today — “The ability of machines to see”. With computer vision enabled robots, a lot ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rafael Knuth. Electronic spreadsheets have been around for nearly 40 years now. They were invented by Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, founders of VisiCalc, and I had a chance to chat with both gentlemen a couple of months ago. I highly recommend watching this TED talk with Dan Bricklin: It's important to understand for which purpose electronic spreadsheets were built in the first place if we want to anticipate what their future might look like. In response to my question in how far the future of spreadsheets is different from its ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xuedong Huang. Applying the latest in deep learning innovation, Speech Service, part of Azure Cognitive Services now offers a neural network-powered text-to-speech capability. Access the preview available today. Neural Text-to-Speech makes the voices of your apps nearly indistinguishable from the voices of people. Use it to make conversations with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, to convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and to upgrade in-car navigation systems with natural voice experiences and more. This release includes significant enhancements since we first revealed Neural Text-to-Speech at Ignite earlier this year. Enhanced ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  We’re rapidly approaching the point where AI will be so pervasive that it’s inevitable that someone will be injured or killed.  If you thought this was covered by simple product defect warranties it’s not at all that clear.  Here’s what we need to start thinking about. So far the press reports of AI misbehavior fall mostly in the humorous or embarrassingly incompetent categories.  Alexa orders doll houses when a little girl asks it to.  Robot guards fall into pools or push people over.  Google tags black people as ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Saumitra Buragohain. To make Big Data cloud-native, Hortonworks has unveiled the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative. In our previous blogs, we have talked about the vision, key tenets/concepts, real-world use case, and the new storage environment of O3. We often get asked by our customers, partners, and analysts: “Hortonworks has been in the middle of the data revolution for years. How do you plan to bring the new Kubernetes cloud-native architecture to Big Data?” Why Cloud Native Computing Foundation We have collaborated with many of our customers in their container journey for many years now, leading ... Read More