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It's Sentient

"Meet the classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs" A long exposé about the fairly secret project Sentient - an artificial brain developed by the National Reconnaissance Office. Check out the article by the Verge

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Top Data project of the week: MusicAutobot - The Pop Music Generator

Listen to it here: MusicAutobot - The Pop Music Generator

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NVIDIA Clocks World’s Fastest BERT Training Time and Largest Transformer Based Model, Paving Path For Advanced Conversational AI

NVIDIA reveals how they've achieved the fasted training time for BERT, a massive language model. Very promising! Check out the article by NVIDIA Developer Blog

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AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy

AI startups are blooming and raising more money than ever - but some people have started revealing that some "AI" companies are actually relying on humans masquerading as fancy tech. Check out the article by the Wall Street Journal

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I wasn’t getting hired as a Data Scientist. So I sought data on who is

If you want to become a data scientist, there's a lot of different ways to go about it - and a lot of people with expert opinions on how to do it. This guy took to the data to find out what skills are actually a priority. So meta! Also, here's some data on how much data scientists make ;) Check out the article by Towards Data Science

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Banana Data Podcast #8: Prioritizing training data, model interpretability, and dodging an AI Winter

Listen to it on: Spotify - Apple - Google Play - Stitcher - Buzzsprout

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Exclusive trailer: Data Science Pioneers - Conquering the next frontier

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BDN #7: Building accessible queries, codes, and speech using AI

Listen to it on: Spotify - Apple - Google Play - Stitcher - Buzzsprout

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Summer bonus: Your favorite links of 2019 so far

- [Discussion] When ML and Data Science are the death of a good company: A cautionary tale. on Reddit "This project is very likely going to fail, and cause serious harm to the company as a whole financially and from a people perspective." - Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. Take One That Isn’t. by FiveThirtyeight "But you can do better than those specious — yet irresistible — quizzes. You can take a personality quiz backed by science." - How I Eat For Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Instagram by Chris Buetti "I’ll admit — it’s rather technical and not everyone can reproduce my methodology." - The Tentpoles of Data Science by simplystats "In particular, I think there are broadly five "tentpoles" for a good data scientist. Each tentpole represents a major area of activity that will to some extent be applied in any given data analysis." - Personalized Recommendations for Experiences Using Deep Learning by Work at Tripadvisor "In this blog post, we will explain how our newly-developed ‘Recommended For You’ (RFY) model generates personalized recommendations on our website using users’ browsing history and deep learning." - Comparing Python and SQL for Building Data Pipelines by Towards Data Science "As I set out on cleaning, aggregating and engineering features for the data, I tried to decide which language would be best for the task." - Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly by sanau "In this article, we’ll show you a scenario where a small change to the front-facing interface could reduce the accuracy of an ML model powering the application." - We Can Do Better Than SQL by Edge DB "In fact, SQL’s beginnings as a "simple, ad-hoc" language coupled with "design by implementation" from competing vendors had left the language with a baggage of severe issues." - TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow! By Hackernoon "The consequences of what just happened are going to have major ripple effects on every industry, just you wait." - Selling data products is the wrong business model for AI startups by Mark Johnson "There seem to be two distinct options emerging: either build a series of data products available to all, or create a platform to build bespoke products, unique to each customer." - 2019 State of Salaries Report by Hired "Data reveals tech worker salary trends across the globe" - How Data (and Some Breathtaking Soccer) Brought Liverpool to the Cusp of Glory by NY Times "In soccer, pure chance can influence outcomes to a much greater extent than in other sports. Goals are relatively rare, fewer than three per game in England’s Premier League."

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Banana Data Podcast #6: AI Meets World: GDPR, the AI Job Apocalypse, and AI’s carbon footprint

Watch it on: Spotify - Apple - Google Play - Stitcher - Buzzsprout

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Top video of the week: Warehouses: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver "They're almost like robots, except they're people"

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AI is changing the entire nature of compute

Chips and systems were designed to store data for operations and standard analytics. They need to be changed to allow AI to keep growing. "The tools at our disposal fashion our thoughts more than we care to admit." Yann LeCun Check out the article by ZDNet

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What the Evidence Shows About the Impact of the GDPR After One Year

A very serious Institute takes a look at how GDPR has impacted the world after a year. They paint a pretty bleak picture of the regulation, with a negative impact on Economics, tech startups and regulators and a failure to increase trust. Check out the article by the Center for Data  Innovation

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I opted out of Facial Recognition at the airport - it wasn't easy

A tale to illustrate just how complicated it is to opt out of ML in real life. Check out the article by Wired

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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

It's always cool to try and understand how algorithms see the world differently from us; This specific research shows that while humans focus on the outline of objects to understand what they are, AI will look at the texture. Check out the article by Quanta magazine

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Banana Data Podcast #5: A New Kind of Relationship with AI: Robopets, AI Art, and AI EQ

Watch it here Spotify - Apple - Google Play - Stitcher - Buzzsprout

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Top video of the week: Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back