Woebot raises 8 million, Tensorflow 1.6, Project Alexandria, Google ML course, Deep learning notations,...
On People…
Book release of "Tensorflow for Deep Learning" - Link
Computational social science is not equal to computer science plus social data - Link
Deep Learning notations by Ian Goodfellow - Link
On Education and Research…
Google releases new machine learning course for free - Link
Google releases machine learning glossary in Spanish, French, Korean, and Mandarin - Link
[Paper] Evaluating the stability of embedding-based word similarities - Link
[Paper] Averaged stochastic gradient descent with weight dropped LSTM or QRNN - Link
[Paper] Adverserial examples that fool both human and computer vision - Link
On Code and Data...
Tesorflow 1.6 is released - Link
Google releases new dataset and challenge for landmark recognition - Link
JupyterLab is released and ready for mass user adoption - Link
Code repository for Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (by Peter Norvig) - Link
On Industry…
Novel antibiotic recipes could be hidden in medieval medical text - Link
Automated psychotherapy bot, Woebot, raises $8 million round of series A funding - Link
Worthy Mentions…
GitHub survived the largest DDoS attack ever recorded - Link
Allen Institute for AI to pursue common sense for AI via Project Alexandria- Link
How to conduct cross-validate PCA, K-means clustering, and other supervised algorithms - Link
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