TechCrunchFly Ventures, a Berlin-based VC using machine learning to find its …TechCrunchFly Ventures, a relatively new VC operating out of Berlin, has closed its first fund at $41 million, capital it will use to invest at seed-stage in startups acros…
VentureBeatVeritone Acquires Advanced Data Science and Machine Learning FirmBusiness Wire (press release)The acquisition includes a cooperative distributed inferencing system — based on Hamiltonian models and other proprietary algorithms — that enabl…
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How Will Machine Learning Address Cyber Security Problems in 2018?
HuffPost My colleague, Amanda Rousseau, recently forecasted what she thought would be the security problems of 2018. I’ll cherry-pick a couple that I think ML can really help with, albeit (as in the previous paragraph) not as a do-it-all panacea. “Assume you’ll … |
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Machine learning and AI for social good: views from NIPS 2017
Robohub In early December, 8000 machine learning researchers gathered in Long Beach for 2017’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference. In the margins of the conference, the Royal Society and Foreign and Commonwealth Office Science and Innovation … |
eWeekGoogle Machine Learning Model Rates Aesthetic Qualities of PhotoseWeekGoogle researchers have developed an experimental machine-learning model that they claim can rate photos and images based on their aesthetic qualities rather than purely quantit…
DocuSign acquires machine learning startup AppuriZDNetAppuri is known for its machine-learning-based audience segmentation technology that lets companies deliver targeted marketing messages and product recommendations. According to DocuSign, the acquis…
Financial TimesBlue-chips back oil industry machine learning start-upFinancial TimesThe Chinese investment bank CICC has joined oil majors Saudi Aramco, Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron in backing a Californian start-up that is developing machine learning…
ZDNetMachine learning and the spectre of the wrong solutionZDNetPhotograph of a scale model of old Fort Pitt in the 1760s taken at the Fort Pitt Block House Museum in central Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Scott Fulton. Technically, it should have been a br…
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Auto-tuning data science: New research streamlines machine learning
MIT News A new automated machine-learning system performs as well or better than its human counterparts — and works 100 times faster. MIT’s automated machine learning works 100x faster than human … |
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Facebook wants to rid of engagement bait with machine learning
ZDNet Teams at Facebook have categorized “hundreds of thousands of posts” to inform its machine learning model to detect different types of engagement bait. Facebook said posts that use the baiting tactic will be shown less in users’ news feed. In the coming … Facebook Cracks Down on Engagement Baiters Facebook to demote posts fishing for Likes – Dec. 18, 2017 Facebook Wants to Reduce Engagement. Huh? |
