

On 23 August, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman made some policy announcements in order to help give a boost to the slowing economy. Among them was a particular announcement that the startup community in India had been waiting for years — the Angel Tax exemption. The finance minister brought relief to thousands of startups in the…
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The traditional feed-forward neural networks are not good with time-series data and other sequences or sequential data. This data can be something as volatile as stock prices or a continuous video stream from an on-board camera of an autonomous car. Handling time series data is where RNNs excel. They were designed to grasp the information…
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Open-sourced projects branched out from the free-software movement which began in the late 80s. Almost every big tech organisation has been open-sourcing its innovative projects to the public as well as the developer communities for several years now. According to the 2018 Open Source Program Management survey by Linux Foundation, open-source projects are set to…
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You all must have seen #PrayForAmazon all over the internet as the issue is much bigger than we can imagine. Spanning 9 countries — Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, where the majority of the forest is contained within Brazil.…
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Molecula is a Data Virtualization Platform that can created instantaneous access to huge, disparate, and geographically distributed datasets to help machine learning and analytical workloads at a much small cost compared to traditional approaches. There is an unabating amount of growing data distributed across the modern-day business in multiple formats, types, and locations. Every day…
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In my last article, I wrote about how I began my journey in Data Science. You can read the first part of my story here: My Journey To Getting A Data Science Job As A Fresher — Part 1: The Struggle So to pick from where I left last time, I managed to get an…
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No, Gary Marcus, It’s Not Fair To Criticise DeepMind’s Research, Despite Its Ballooning Losses


Gary Marcus is at it again — flogging Deep Learning’s biggest contributor Google-owned DeepMind over its astounding $572 million loss. In an authored article, Marcus not only bemoaned DeepMind’s losses but also raised questions whether AI research is heading in the right direction. While the company’s losses show the challenges faced by the AI community…
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Stanley Weinbaum in his short story Pygmalion Spectacles introduced the world to the idea of goggles that allow users to experience an artificial reality. Weinbaum pondered over this idea and went as far as creating a reality that also has tastes and touch along with vision. Though works of Weinbaum were considered to push the…
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In recent times, India has witnessed some of the most notorious cyberattacks, not only on individuals but also on business and government entities. According to reports, India bags the third place in 2018 after Mexico and France in terms of most number of cyberattacks in businesses. India was also the most attacked nation in the…
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Managing a chat operations team of 100+ members can include a lot of repetitive and mundane tasks. The duo of Gaurav Singh and Piyush Mishra started automating these tasks while they were running a B2C Personal Concierge Startup called Magictiger. While pivoting from B2C, they decided to offer the same solution to other companies and…
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