01 Nov

MachineHack Launches New Hackathon, Take The Pet Breed Classification Challenge

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Our online hackathon platform, MachineHack.com is being love by data science enthusiasts. The very first hackathon, “Predicting House Prices In Bengaluru” is running successfully and top three winners are going to receive individual passes to Cypher 2018. We have received overwhelming response on the discussion boards and submissions and are happy to build a product for the data science community…

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31 Oct

The Story Of How Airbnb Implemented Neural Networks To Improve Their Search Feature

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Search capabilities are a big feature for any business website or app. A good search engine can bring new customers to relevant products and lead to better sales. The engineering team at Airbnb sees their search ranking algorithm as their biggest machine learning success story. The team tried gradient boosted decision tree model but the…

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31 Oct

The Story Of How Airbnb Implemented Neural Networks To Improve Their Search Feature

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Search capabilities are a big feature for any business website or app. A good search engine can bring new customers to relevant products and lead to better sales. The engineering team at Airbnb sees their search ranking algorithm as their biggest machine learning success story. The team tried gradient boosted decision tree model but the…

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31 Oct

The Quantum Internet Is Still A Futuristic Dream, At Least A Decade Away

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You may have come across many discussions, arguments and ideas around quantum computing off late. Why is there so much buzz around this phenomenon? To answer it shortly, it is because of its enormous, unfathomable capabilities. This area of computing is millions of times more powerful than classical computing. By the next few years, quantum…

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31 Oct

India Ready To Lead The World In AI, ML, Cloud Computing: Mukesh Ambani

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Reliance Industries Limited head Mukesh Ambani this week lauded India’s strong economic growth and said that the country was entering a new era of digitisation. Speaking at the 24th MobiCom conference in New Delhi, Ambani also said that 99.9% of the Indian population would receive 4G coverage by the year 2019. He also said that…

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31 Oct

IIT Hyderabad Launches New Liberal Arts Course In Artificial Intelligence And Humanity

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Giving an interesting spin to the ongoing debate in the tech circles about artificial intelligence, its rights and its relevance to humanity, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has launched a new course titled Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity. According to news reports, the Department of Liberal Arts from IIT-H has launched a Minor in AI…

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31 Oct

Empathy To Longevity: How AI Is Helping Humans Live A Healthy Life

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Across the globe, researchers, doctors and social scientists are rallying to use AI systems to increase human lifespan and improve the quality of life. Last week, Indian think tank NITI Aayog and tech giant Microsoft India forged a partnership to leverage AI-based solutions in healthcare. The Redmond giant will help the Indian think tank in…

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31 Oct

Top 10 Executive Data Science Courses in India – Ranking 2018

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A primary survey was conducted in August through September 2018, where 961 current and past students from 18 cities in India gave opinions on data science courses they attended. Out of these entries, few dozens in-depth interviews were done to understand the reasons for the submissions. This exercise helped in validating the data and providing…

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30 Oct

The War Between Python And Go Explained In 8 Points

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Python versus Go has always been a popular controversy among tech geeks. Python, created by Guido Van Rossum, is undoubtedly one of the most popular languages among data scientists and developers. It is easy, convenient and very flexible with its applications. On the other hand, Google’s programming language Golang, popularly known as Go, has the…

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30 Oct

Finding The Right Mentor In Data Science Is Just As Important As Your Analytics Education

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It is a question that has often befuddled many aspiring professionals who are looking to enter the data science field. What should one do? Dive into a self-paced Python or R course, or follow a curated data science-related curriculum which provides a good base in analytical and quantitative techniques? However, there is a new trend…

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