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Chris and Daniel help us wade through the week’s AI news, including open ML challenges from Intel and National Geographic, Henry Kissinger’s views on AI, and a model that can detect personality based on eye movements. They also point out some useful resources to learn more about pandas, the vim editor, and AI algorithms.
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News:
- RFP for National Geographic AI earth innovation
- Intel - AI Interplanetary challenge
- App that lets Alexa read sign language
- The mythos of model interpretability
- Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Your Personality By Simply Tracking Your Eyes
- Think You Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? Think Again.
- How the Enlightenment Ends
Learning resources:
- Pandas tips and tricks
- Mastering vim quickly
- An introduction to Gradient Descent Algorithm
- Introducing capsule networks
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