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Start-up Vicarious Defeats CAPTCHA Security with AI Inspired by Brain’s Visual Cortex
Vicarious improved on neural network capable of solving CAPTCHA challenges using a novel network layout called Recursive Cortical Network. In contrast to a normal neural network, which starts without any knowledge before training, a RCN starts with knowledge of contours and surfaces. This prior knowledge facilitates model building and generalisability.
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Smart Replies for Member Messages at LinkedIn
LinkedIn has launched a new natural language processing (NLP) recommendation engine which is used to provide members with smart-reply recommendations to messages. The models and infrastructure development process has been documented in detail in a recent blog post by the engineering team.
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Confluent Releases KSQL, a Distributed Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka
Confluent released KSQL: interactive, distributed streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL supports stream processing operations like aggregations, joins, windowing, and sessionization on topics in Apache Kafka. Confluent announced the open source streaming SQL engine at the recent Kafka Summit conference.
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Book Review Python Machine Learning - Second Edition
The book Python Machine Learning, second edition by Sebastian Raschka and Vahid Mirjalili, is a tutorial to a broad range of machine learning applications with Python. It provides a practical introduction to machine learning. The main revision to the first edition is neural network practices. There are now five chapters that discuss neural networks, and their implementation in TensorFlow.
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Jensen Huang Announces NVIDIA's New Projects at the GPU Technology Conference
Today the GPU Technology conference in Munich kicked off with a keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Holodeck, the Tensor RT 3 library, NVIDIA's Drive platform, and the Pegasus computer for autonomous taxis.
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QConSF Content Update: Less Than 40 Days to Go!
Marking its 11th year, QConSF will be located at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco (just off the Embarcadero). The conference has over 1,200 confirmed attendees at this point and expects to sell out around 1,600.
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Teachable Machine: Teach a Machine Using Your Camera in Your Browser
Teachable Machine is a browser application that you can train with your webcam to recognize objects or expressions. In the demo you use your webcam as input to recognize three different classes of objects or expressions. Based on your camera input, the site shows different gifs, plays prerecorded sounds, or plays speech. The demo can be found here: teachablemachine.withgoogle.com
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Google Announces Firestore, a Document Database
Google has announced Cloud Firestore, a document database for mobile, web and server applications.
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New Relic Releases El Dorado UI, a Web App for Visualizing a Neo4j Graph Database
New Relic open sourced the El Dorado UI project, a Sinatra app to query and visualize relationships between development teams, projects, and microservices, all stored in a Neo4J graph database. Ward Cunningham, the inventor of Wiki, described the origin of the project and demonstrated its capabilities at the Explore DDD conference in Denver, Colorado.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Pattern Matching for Java
Brian Goetz and Gavin Bierman of Oracle introduce the concept of pattern matching for potential integration into the Java programming language. By starting from common Java source code idioms that are verbose or error prone, they explore how pattern matching may eliminate some of the pitfalls.
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Q&A with Alison Polton-Simon on Her 'Metrics That Matter’ Talk for DevOpsDays NZ
Raf Gemmail talks with ThoughtWorks’ Alison Polton-Simon about her DevOpsDaysNZ talk on metrics which teams should be measuring.
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Q&A with Hillery Hunter: IBM Reduces Neural Network Training Times by Efficiently Scaling Training
In August 2017 IBM announced it broke the training record for image recognition capabilities. IBM research reduced their training time for the neural network layout called "ResNet-50" to only 50 minutes. On another network layout called ResNet-101, they obtained an accuracy record of 33.8 percent. Using 256 GPUs they trained their neural network on a dataset containing 7.5 million images.
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LinkedIn Develops MySQL Query Analyzer Tool
In order to optimise the performance of their MySQL instances, LinkedIn has created a Query Analyzer tool in order to analyze and tune expensive queries. It runs on the network layer, stores everything within a centralized server, and provides a UI for users to analyze metrics.
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TensorFlow Serving 1.0 Release Detailed at Google I/O
Google's Noah Fiedel details new programming model for TensorFlow Serving in a stable 1.0 release. Subject matter addresses common challenges with portability, servablility, and reproducibility improvements.
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Apple’s iPhone X Has Custom Neural Engine Processor Built In
Speaking in the Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple Park yesterday Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, described some of the technology behind the facial recognition system in the newly announced iPhone X including a dedicated neural engine built into the A11 chip.