The unrelenting thirst for us to pour as much data about ourselves into the vaults at Facebook has created the perfect nesting ground for Data Scientists to gather with thoughtful fingers tapping together and create the tools to manipulate it. When the other big machine learning houses of the world, Google, Baidu, Netflix and so on are all generating value from ...

  (TRANSCRIPT) ‘Deep Learning for Language Understanding’ Quoc Le, Research Scientist, Google Manually transcripting talks and lectures can really focus the mind and drive home the difficulties faced with natural language processing systems with understanding words spoken in different accents, punctuation, stresses and corrections which are best omitted in target text. Here is a transcript of Quoc Le’s talk at ...

One of the highlights of January’s Deep Learning Summit in San Francisco was Andrew Ng’s fireside chat with Derrick Harris (fireplace not included) in which Ng gave a fantastic insight into how the culture of learning and empowerment at Baidu, partly through Ng’s involvement with Coursera which has led to a culture in which Deep Learning has taken on a life ...