24 Mar

AI Safety In a Complex World: A Checklist By DeepMind

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“Finding human-understandable explanations of ML systems work is essential for their safe deployment.” DeepMind Modern day machine learning(ML) systems are unpredictable. Especially, deep reinforcement learning(DRL) systems. To put their actions in human understandable terms is challenging. Inexplicable systems cannot be deployed in environments where safety is critical. To investigate this shortcoming, researchers at DeepMind surveyed…

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24 Mar

Guide To Vowpal Wabbit: A State-of-the-art Library For Interactive Machine Learning

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Vowpal Wabbit is a flexible open-source project designed to tackle complex interactive machine learning tasks. With Microsoft Research and (earlier) Yahoo! Research as major project contributors, Vowpal Wabbit results from intensive community research and contributions since 2007. It provides you with rapid, online and active machine learning solutions for supervised learning and reinforcement learning.   Vowpal…

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24 Mar

Amazon Appoints Former Tableau Executive Adam Selipsky To Lead Its Cloud Business

In recent news, Adam Selipsky, the current CEO of Salesforce-owned Tableau, announced that he would be leaving the company to head Amazon’s cloud business.  With Selipsky leaving Tableau, executive Mark Nelson, with 25 years of enterprise software experience, will be substituting him and stepping up as the new CEO of this data analytics firm.  Selipsky…

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24 Mar

What To Expect From The New US-India Artificial Intelligence Initiative

The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum launched the US India Artificial Intelligence Initiative on March 17 to foster the science and technology relationship between the two countries. The Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, Prof Ashutosh Sharma, said the Indo-US relationships in science and technology go way back and have significantly benefited both…

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24 Mar

In Conversation With Neil Heffernan, Professor Of Computer Science At Worcester Polytechnic Institute

For this week’s director’s series, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Neil Heffernan, the computer science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  Known for his innovative online learning tool and app, ASSISTments, Neil is an active researcher in educational data mining and analytics. He has six dozens papers in educational data mining and has authored…

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24 Mar

We Are In The Process Of Democratising Data: Chief Product Officer at Tableau

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Data science is a highly specialised field. As a result, tasks such as data cleaning and data preparation become critical for organisations as any inaccuracies may lead to project failures. The risk is even higher when non-specialists handle the data. “To build truly data-driven organisations, we need to unlock the power of data for as…

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24 Mar

We Are In The Process Of Democratising Data: Chief Product Officer at Tableau

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Data science is a highly specialised field. As a result, tasks such as data cleaning and data preparation become critical for organisations as any inaccuracies may lead to project failures. The risk is even higher when non-specialists handle the data. “To build truly data-driven organisations, we need to unlock the power of data for as…

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