Archives for December, 2018 - Page 25


Imagination is the key to innovation, and this is probably why writers have many times thought beyond scientists. For example, numerous books have been written about new tech which have interesting plots revolving around artificial intelligence and machine learning. Here we present five fictional books that predicted AI way before the technology became a rage…
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The last century has seen tremendous innovation in the field of mathematics. New theories have been postulated and traditional theorems have been made robust by persistent mathematicians. And we are still reaping the benefits of their exhaustive endeavours to build intelligent machines. Here is a list of five theorems which act as a cornerstone for…
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Autonomous Vehicles, AI Are Key To Generating More Value In Agriculture: President Ram Nath Kovind


Reinforcing what the Narendra Modi-led government has been propagating in during their tenure, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind this week said that a “strong bond” was crucial between agriculture and technology. Speaking at the 13th edition of CII Agro Tech India-2018 in Chandigarh, President Kovind said, “In previous decades, manufacturing and mechanisation have been of appreciable utility…
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IIT Bombay and NEC Technologies India inked an agreement to deepen research and development in the area of big data analytics, IoT and AI to tackle India’s social challenges. According to a statement, the MoU between IIT Bombay and NEC Technologies India (NECTI) will cover a broad range of areas and address key government initiatives…
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BARC, an Indian TV audience measurement and insights company, is built upon a strong future-ready technology backbone. With a robust panel of 33,000 homes, across the length and breadth of the country, they are certainly the largest measurement body of its kind in the world. They have granular data cutting across geographies, age group, gender…
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Reinforcement Learning is a reward-based learning algorithm in which an agent or a system interacts with its environment, looks for a reward and adapts to the change in state of the environment. The easiest and most common example to relate Reinforcement Learning to the real world is by understanding the learning process of a baby.…
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While Python and R have been dominating the programming domain for long, one particular tool that rose in parallel is Weka. Developed by University of Waikato, New Zealand, Weka stands for Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis. This software was exclusively built for machine learning for data mining and comprises various tools for data preparation, classification,…
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Data science education has gone through a lot of innovation. Right from data science MOOCs and offline training are available for people who want to learn a new technology. There are also choices when it comes to what level of training one needs. There is a new way to learn how you can now code…
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Throughout his life, the late American cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky has consistently pushed the limits of human intelligence to unforeseen standards. He did this effortlessly owing to his surging stream of consciousness, which he put to test from time to time; and in a way, he tested the world’s perception of intelligence as well.…
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Using maths and fiction in the same sentence may turn many heads and raise many eyebrows. Having said that, there is something exquisite about mathematical proofs and dramatic plots. A lot of creativity goes into bringing them out. Here are few books for nerds who bask in math and literature alike: 1) Measuring the World…
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