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Trademark Filings Dip Slightly in 2015
June 20, 2016
Trademark filings dipped slightly in 2015, but have for the most part remained steady over the last seven years, according...
June 20, 2016
Trademark filings dipped slightly in 2015, but have for the most part remained steady over the last seven years, according...
Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs
June 19, 2016
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science. So these behaviorists, as they called themselves, confined their work to the study of stimulus and response, feedback and reinforcement, bells and saliva. They gave up trying to understand the inner workings of the mind....
June 19, 2016
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science. So these behaviorists, as they called themselves, confined their work to the study of stimulus and response, feedback and reinforcement, bells and saliva. They gave up trying to understand the inner workings of the mind....
When It Comes To The Future, Google Doesn’t Need To Be First
June 18, 2016
The search giant’s annual developer conference revealed that Google is playing catch-up to its Big Tech competitors and it doesn’t seem to care one bit. Today, Google convened 7,000 developers and journalists at a popular outdoor concert venue in Silicon Valley and gave a two-hour state of the union on the future of arguably the most powerful and ambitious company in the world. In front of a packed crowd and tens of thousands watching via live stream, the company brought its best...
June 18, 2016
The search giant’s annual developer conference revealed that Google is playing catch-up to its Big Tech competitors and it doesn’t seem to care one bit. Today, Google convened 7,000 developers and journalists at a popular outdoor concert venue in Silicon Valley and gave a two-hour state of the union on the future of arguably the most powerful and ambitious company in the world. In front of a packed crowd and tens of thousands watching via live stream, the company brought its best...
Moneyball 2.0: What a Minor League Moneyball Reveals About Predictive Analytics
June 17, 2016
The book The Only Rule Is It Has To Work is the true story of how a couple of clever quants, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, tried to bring sabermetric superiority to the Sonoma Stompers, a minor league baseball team nestled in California’s wine country. The self-described “statheads” have the chance-of-a-lifetime opportunity to test out their own Moneyball-style theories when the management team and owners of the Stompers invited them to run operations as part of a learning experience and team...
June 17, 2016
The book The Only Rule Is It Has To Work is the true story of how a couple of clever quants, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, tried to bring sabermetric superiority to the Sonoma Stompers, a minor league baseball team nestled in California’s wine country. The self-described “statheads” have the chance-of-a-lifetime opportunity to test out their own Moneyball-style theories when the management team and owners of the Stompers invited them to run operations as part of a learning experience and team...
Using Predictive Analytics to Reduce Claim Duration and Costs
June 14, 2016
Insurance claims professionals are pioneers in the use of predictive data analytics. Well before the term “Big Data”...
June 14, 2016
Insurance claims professionals are pioneers in the use of predictive data analytics. Well before the term “Big Data”...
Next ‘Big Thing’ In Legal Market? The Forecast For Legal Analytics Is Mostly Sunny
June 13, 2016
Turns out that ELS skill sets map nicely onto a new trend (and growth area) in the legal market: Legal analytics. Part three...
June 13, 2016
Turns out that ELS skill sets map nicely onto a new trend (and growth area) in the legal market: Legal analytics. Part three...
NOAA’s Forecast Model Improved Yet Again, Now in 4-D
June 12, 2016
NOAA’s powerful new supercomputers paved the way for another upgrade to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS), NOAA’s primary model for weather prediction. The upgrade builds on last year’s significant boost to the GFS, which more than doubled the resolution of the model grid from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers, resulting in higher resolution model output and more precise weather forecasts and warnings. Today’s shift to four-dimensional ensemble hybrid data assimilation takes into account...
June 12, 2016
NOAA’s powerful new supercomputers paved the way for another upgrade to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS), NOAA’s primary model for weather prediction. The upgrade builds on last year’s significant boost to the GFS, which more than doubled the resolution of the model grid from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers, resulting in higher resolution model output and more precise weather forecasts and warnings. Today’s shift to four-dimensional ensemble hybrid data assimilation takes into account...
Quest for Robo-Yellen Advances as Computers Gain on Rate Setters
June 12, 2016
Move over Janet Yellen, automation in the workplace is about to get personal. Instead of relying on the Federal Reserve chair, imagine using a computer to transform mountains of raw economic data into reliable predictions for unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product. What’s the best level for the federal funds rate? “The capability is here,” says Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Boston. “The...
June 12, 2016
Move over Janet Yellen, automation in the workplace is about to get personal. Instead of relying on the Federal Reserve chair, imagine using a computer to transform mountains of raw economic data into reliable predictions for unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product. What’s the best level for the federal funds rate? “The capability is here,” says Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Boston. “The...
DeepMind moves to TensorFlow
June 11, 2016
At DeepMind, we conduct state-of-the-art research on a wide range of algorithms, from deep learning and reinforcement learning to systems neuroscience, towards the goal of building Artificial General Intelligence. A key factor in facilitating rapid progress is the software environment used for research. For nearly four years, the open source Torch7 machine learning library has served as our primary research platform, combining excellent flexibility with very fast runtime execution, enabling rapid...
June 11, 2016
At DeepMind, we conduct state-of-the-art research on a wide range of algorithms, from deep learning and reinforcement learning to systems neuroscience, towards the goal of building Artificial General Intelligence. A key factor in facilitating rapid progress is the software environment used for research. For nearly four years, the open source Torch7 machine learning library has served as our primary research platform, combining excellent flexibility with very fast runtime execution, enabling rapid...
Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
June 11, 2016
How does SyntaxNet work? SyntaxNet is a framework for what’s known in academic circles as a syntactic parser, which...
June 11, 2016
How does SyntaxNet work? SyntaxNet is a framework for what’s known in academic circles as a syntactic parser, which...
