Research Blog: Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture Posted by Quoc Le & Barret Zoph, Research Scientists, Google Brain team At Google, we have successfully applied deep learning models to many applications, from image recognition to speech recognition to machine translation. Typically, our machine learning models are painstakingly designed by a team of engineers and scientists. This process of manually designing machine learning models is difficult because the search space of all possible models can be combinatorially large — a typical 10-layer network can have ~1010 candidate networks! For this reason, the process of designing networks often takes a significant amount of time and experimentation by those with significant machine learning expertise. To make this process of designing machine learning models much more accessible, we’ve been exploring ways to automate the design of machine learning models.
NoSQL, huh, what is it good for?… « Adam's Big Data Discoveries …Actually quite a lot really. Say it again, y’all! In this post I try to dymystify NoSQL for the Relational DB crowd / average human, and give some real world examples of how NoSQL can help. OK I promise no more blog-singing. The case for digital reinvention Digital technology, despite its seeming ubiquity, has only begun to penetrate industries. As it continues its advance, the implications for revenues, profits, and opportunities will be dramatic. As new markets emerge, profit pools shift, and digital technologies pervade more of everyday life, it’s easy to assume that the economy’s digitization is already far advanced. According to our latest research, however, the forces of digital have yet to become fully mainstream. On average, industries are less than 40 percent digitized, despite the relatively deep penetration of these technologies in media, retail, and high tech. As digitization penetrates more fully, it will dampen revenue and profit growth for some, particularly the bottom quartile of companies, according to our research, while the top quartile captures disproportionate gains.
Understanding the 4 Types of A.I. The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, distinguish pictures, drive cars and play games better than we do. How much longer can it be before they walk among us? The new White House report on artificial intelligence takes an appropriately skeptical view of that dream.
Goteo Susana Noguero Mission and strategy From the "hard drive" of our Foundation, Susana is the executive management lead, keeping track of Goteo’s objectives and challenges, leading the team in decision making, and acting as the key person for all opportunities coming our way, both day-to-day and long term. The only thing she’s not sharing all that easily is her homemade lemonade recipe. Support: Product design and services, partnerships and fundraising Location: Palma de Mallorca References to Editorials If you click on the links below, then you will be able to retrieve the relevant editorial from Environment and Planning B in the last ten years Batty M, (with Cheshire, J.) 2012, ” Visualisation Tools for Understanding Big Data”, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 39(3) 413 – 415 Full-text PDF size: 217 Kb Batty M, 2012, “Smart Cities, Big Data”, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 39(2) 191 – 193 Full-text PDF size: 49 Kb Batty M, Cheshire J, 2011, “Cities as flows, cities of flows” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 38(2) 195 – 196 Full-text PDF size: 41 Kb Batty M, 2010, “The pulse of the city” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37(4) 575 – 577 Full-text PDF size: 52 Kb Batty M, 2010, “When the web is woven” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37(2) 195 – 196 Full-text PDF size: 44 Kb
Stephen Hawking: This will be the impact of automation and AI on jobs British scientist Prof. Stephen Hawking gives his 'The Origin of the Universe' lecture to a packed hall December 14, 2006 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Hawking suffers from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrigs disease), which has rendered him quadriplegic, and is able to speak only via a computerized voice synthesizer which is operated by batting his eyelids. David Silverman/Getty Images Future Cities Special Interest Group - Feasibility Studies - Open Innovation Thirty councils have been selected to carry out feasibility studies for the Future Cities Demonstrator Programme over the coming months. The thirty councils will receive £50,000 each from the government's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) to complete feasibility studies showing how they could integrate their transport, communications and other infrastructure to improve the local economy, increase quality of life and reduce impact on the environment. The cities that have completed the feasibility studies will also be able to submit a proposal for a large-scale 'future cities demonstrator', showing how the city's multiple systems will be integrated and how challenges in the city will be addressed - and one successful city will be awarded £24m funding to implement their proposal. The Future Cities Special Interest Group will be working with the selected councils to facilitate introductions.
Factories of the Future (FoF) - Research & Innovation - Key Enabling Technologies Industrial production accounts for 16% of Europe’s GDP and remains a key driver for innovation, productivity, growth and job creation. In 2009, 31 million persons were employed in the EU manufacturing sector, and each job in manufacturing generates at least an additional job in services. Moreover, nowadays 80% of the EU’s exports are manufactured products.
Design Capital Helsinki 2012 The international architecture competition organised by the City of Lahti to redevelop the railway area has been closed. Helsinki is World Design Capital 2012 together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, Kauniainen and Lahti. The central meeting place of the WDC Helsinki 2012 in Lahti is the Muotohuoltamo Centre (previously Design Station), which is a venue for local, Finnish and international design. Lahti Muotohuoltamo Centre is a place where everybody can acquaint themselves with the activities of the WDC Helsinki 2012. Lahti, located on the shore of Lake Vesijärvi, is a major centre of industrial design. Design is an important competitive factor for the businesses in the region.
10 examples of urban data visualization @manufernandez The complexity of cities (a diverse and always changing environment) produces a huge amount of data. The growing availability of tools to generate, capture, store, manage and analyze this data opens up a wide spectrum of possibilities around those big data. The opening up of public data (public transport, traffic flows, water, waste, use of space, business, etc.) offers the possibility of transforming them into far more useful information than just messy and purely statistical aggregation. The result of this in a context of wide spreading of mobile devices helps to understand the social value of creating new apps that use this data to give users greater ability to interact and experience the city from their own needs. Visualization has become a expanding tool in recent years. Here is a selection of some work I find suggestive as good examples of how to visualize the intensity of urban life in video format or as interactive web tools.
Lesson 9: UART – Simply Embedded An embedded system often requires a means for communicating with the external world for a number of possible reasons. It could be to transferring data to another device, sending and receiving commands, or simply for debugging purposes. One of the most common interfaces used in embedded systems is the universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART). Operations Management, Ph.D. - at Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany - PhDportal.com Procurement Broadly speaking, the research activities at the Endowed Chair of Procurement focus on the understanding – that is describing, explaining, and predicting – of phenomena and mechanisms that are of importance to the field of procurement. The current research thrusts are related to risk and disruptions, interfirm relationships, innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability, and strategies and performance. The Operations Management programme is delivered by Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim.
untitled NYC Can Reduce Its Carbon Footprint 90% By 2050 The greatest obstacle to a responsible approach to climate change mitigation is a sense that the problem is insoluble. Urban Green Council’s latest research report, 90 by 50, demonstrates that the emission reductions required are in fact possible using technologies that are known and in almost all cases currently available, and that the cost is manageable from a citywide perspective.