【Revolutions】 Because it's Friday: Editing Star Wars https://t.co/s42JkbS8NZ
It's said that a movie is written three times: in the screenplay, in the filming, and finally in the editing. This video essay is about how Star Wars — the original 1977 release, that is — was bas…
【Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog】 https://t.co/8uIcd1Z2iX Build Great Conversational Bots Using Azure Bot Service & LUIS (Both Services Now Generally Available)
Re-posted from the Microsoft Azure blog.
Conversational AI, or making human and computer interac…
【Google Research Blog】 Improving End-to-End Models For Speech Recognition https://t.co/lqJD0o6Hfe Posted by Tara N. Sainath, Research Scientist, Speech Team and Yonghui Wu, Research Scientist, Google Brain Team
Traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, used f…
【Revolutions】 An introduction to seplyr https://t.co/zLzNKJP2v9
by John Mount, Win-Vector LLC
seplyr is an R package
that supplies improved standard evaluation interfaces for many common data wrangling tasks.
The core of seplyr is a
re-skinning of dplyr's
functionalit…
【Revolutions】 R in the Windows Subsystem for Linux https://t.co/28nprF1L3G
R has been available for Windows since the very beginning, but if you have a Windows machine but want to use R within a Linux ecosystem, that's easy to do with the new Fall Creator's Update (version…
【Google Research Blog】 A Summary of the First Conference on Robot Learning https://t.co/6rcic5LQcL Posted by Vincent Vanhoucke, Principal Scientist, Google Brain Team and Melanie Saldaña, Program Manager, University Relations
Whether in the form of autonomous vehicles, hom…
【Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog】 https://t.co/2JiFTCI6Ch Calling All AI Innovators – Join the ‘Cloud AI Challenge’ for a Chance to Win $25,000
This post is authored by Vani Mandava, Director of Data Science at Microsoft Research.
The AI revolution is poise…
【Revolutions】 A chart of Bechdel Test scores https://t.co/zNsNt8PEJZ
A movie is said to satisfy the Bechdel Test if it satisfies the following three criteria:
The movie has at least two named female characters
... who have a conversation with each other
... about somethin…
【Google Research Blog】 TFGAN: A Lightweight Library for Generative Adversarial Networks https://t.co/PWlfbjZX8S Posted by Joel Shor, Senior Software Engineer
(Crossposted on the Google Open Source Blog)
Training a neural network usually involves defining a loss function, …
【Revolutions】 Personal note on joining the Microsoft Cloud Advocates team https://t.co/GEKYnsIgae
A quick personal note: today is my first day as a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft! I'll still be blogging and events related to R, and supporting the…
【RStudio Blog】 Shiny Server (Pro) 1.5.6 https://t.co/6oJCgFXERQ
Shiny Server 1.5.6.875 and Shiny Server Pro 1.5.6.902 are now available.
This release of Shiny Server Pro includes floating license support and Shiny Server contains a small enhancement to the way errors are …
【Google Research Blog】 Introducing Appsperiments: Exploring the Potentials of Mobile Photography https://t.co/U8THGPDyQw Posted by Alex Kauffmann, Interaction Researcher, Google Research
Each of the world's approximately two billion smartphone owners is carrying a camera c…
【Blog - Applied Predictive Modeling】 Lots of Package News https://t.co/ozK0GIEyw8
I've sent a slew of packages to CRAN recently (thanks to Swetlana and Uwe). There are updates to:
caret was primarily updated to deal with an issue introduced in the last version. It is a g…
【Water Programming: A Collaborative Research Blog】 https://t.co/JYkoIb7tva Directed search with the Exploratory Modeling workbench
This is the third blog in a series showcasing the functionality of the Exploratory Modeling workbench. Exploratory modeling entails investigat…
【Doing Bayesian Data Analysis】 https://t.co/bgPYgJNece Graphs of imputed censored y values When using JAGS with censored data, the censored values are imputed to be consistent with the parameters of the model and the censoring limits. It's straight forward to record and gra…
【Revolutions】 Because it's Friday: 3-D Animation https://t.co/xMjfIGclKF
We've had 3-D animation for quite a while now, of course, but what happens when a traditional 2-D animator uses a virtual reality system to draw? When famed Disney animator Glen Keane sketches his mos…