We're all lazy, to so some extent, and prefer to think about things that are easy to understand. In order to keep your focus on what's important, recognize that people have this tendency to get distracted by what's easy. I don't have an advice beyond that -- you'll have to …
read moreDr. Richard W. Hamming was one of those famous guys at Bell Labs during its heyday. Throughout his later career he gave a talk titled You and Your Research which is available in various forms on the internet. I highly recommend setting aside half an hour and reading it …
read moreUnderstanding the content of an image is a long-standing challenge in computer vision. In the last five years, the state-of-the art has advanced far beyond scanning checks and facial recognition to the point where, on certain benchmarks, object classification performed by a machine exceeds human level accuracy.
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read moreThere are tons of AlphaGo thinkpieces so I'll refer you to Google for those. Here are two I like.
Briefly, suppose you didn't know anything about Poker but still wanted to play. If you were presented with possible moves you could make at each …
read moreThere are tons of great PyCon talks on YouTube and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's out there but here are a few that struck me.
Keynote - EuroSciPy 2015 - Pieter Hintjens
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