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Montreal-Toronto AI Startups Have Wide Range of Focus

Includes Healthcare, Biomed, Text Analysis, Legal Research, Image Analysis, Drug Discovery, Education Canada has made a commitment for many years to the study of AI at universities across the county, and today robust business incubation programs supported by Canada’s state and regional governments work to transform research into viable businesses. This AI ecosystem has produced […]

What Machine Learning Practitioners Actually Do, by Rachel Thomas, fast.ai

By Rachel Thomas, founder, fast.ai and Asst. Professor, Data Institute, University of San Francisco There are frequent media headlines about both the scarcity of machine learning talent and about the promises of companies claiming their products automate machine learning and eliminate the need for ML expertise altogether. In his recent keynote at the TensorFlow DevSummit, Google’s head of AI Jeff […]

How to Map Out a Career Path in This Early Stage of AI

By Stephanie Glass, Head of Product Marketing, AI Solutions, Aera Technology Artificial intelligence is already reshaping society as we know it in both business and consumer realms. Early use cases with Alexa, autonomous vehicles and AI-driven supply chains provide just a glimpse of the disruption that AI is poised to deliver in the near future and […]

How to Land a Data Scientist Job at Your Dream Company — My Journey to Airbnb

By Kelly Peng, Data Scientist, Airbnb I just started my new job at Airbnb as a data scientist a month ago, and I still feel that I’m too lucky to be here. Nobody knows how much I wanted to join this company — I had pictures of Airbnb office stuck in front of my desk; I had […]

The Mathematics of Machine Learning

By Wale Akinfaderin, PhD candidate in Physics at Florida State University In the last few months, I have had several people contact me about their enthusiasm for venturing into the world of data science and using Machine Learning (ML) techniques to probe statistical regularities and build impeccable data-driven products. However, I’ve observed that some actually […]

AI Influencing Emerging Education Tech Companies

AI technology is being incorporated in solutions offered by some of the 11 startups or newcomers to education chosen from a field of more than 40 companies as “emerging partners” by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) for the 2018-19 school year. The program introduces companies to state-level digital education leaders, where they can gain insights into […]

Here Are 10 Free Must-Read Books for Machine Learning and Data Science

By Matthew Mayo, KDnuggets Summer, summer, summertime. Time to sit back and unwind. Or get your hands on some free machine learning and data science books and get your learn on. Check out this selection to get you started. It’s time for another collection of free machine learning and data science books to kick off […]

High School Grads: Now You Can Major in AI and Become a Very Hot Job Candidate

It’s a college major that sounds straight out of science fiction: Starting this fall, at least two U.S. schools are offering degrees focused on artificial intelligence. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh announced on May 10 that the school will launch a bachelor of science program in artificial intelligence this fall. “Specialists in artificial intelligence have never been more important, in shorter supply or in greater […]

Here are 22 Selected Top Papers on Deep Learning

By Asif Razzaq, Digital Health Business Strategist, cofounder MarkTechPost 1. Deep Learning, by Yann L., Yoshua B. & Geoffrey H. (2015) Deep learning allows computational models that are composed of multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with multiple levels of abstraction. These methods have dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in speech recognition, visual object […]