Apr 22, 2020
Moderating the ML Roller Coaster: A technique to avoid double descent in AI
Wait a minute — we added training data, and our model’s performance got worse?! New research offers a way to avoid so-called double descent.
Apr 22, 2020
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Apr 22, 2020
A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.
It’s time to stop flushing valuable data down the toilet. The Precision Health Toilet, a suite of sensors that attach to an ordinary commode, monitors human waste for input for signs of disease. It identifies individual users by scanning where the sun doesn’t shine.
Apr 22, 2020
AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.
Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.
Apr 22, 2020
The Batch: AI Versus Covid Wake-Up Call, Straight Poop from a Smart Toilet, Sharper Image Inputs, Predicting Farm Yields
I spoke on Tuesday at Coursera’s annual conference. It was the company’s most well-attended conference yet, and the first to be held online. Higher education is in for turbulent times. With campuses shut down indefinitely...
Apr 22, 2020
Covid-19 and the Shift to Online Learning
I spoke on Tuesday at Coursera’s annual conference. It was the company’s most well-attended conference yet, and the first to be held online. Higher education is in for turbulent times.
Apr 22, 2020
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.
Apr 22, 2020
Preserving Detail in Image Inputs: Better image compression for computer vision datasets
Given real-world constraints on memory and processing time, images are often downsampled before they’re fed into a neural network. But the process removes fine details, and that degrades accuracy. A new technique squeezes images with less compromise.
Apr 22, 2020
Moderating the ML Roller Coaster: A technique to avoid double descent in AI
Wait a minute — we added training data, and our model’s performance got worse?! New research offers a way to avoid so-called double descent.
Apr 22, 2020
The Batch: AI Versus Covid Wake-Up Call, Straight Poop from a Smart Toilet, Sharper Image Inputs, Predicting Farm Yields
I spoke on Tuesday at Coursera’s annual conference. It was the company’s most well-attended conference yet, and the first to be held online. Higher education is in for turbulent times. With campuses shut down indefinitely...
Apr 22, 2020
First, Make No Harmful Models: Many AI systems for Covid-19 used biased data.
Researchers have rushed out a battery of AI-powered tools to combat the coronavirus, but an assessment of dozens of models is a wake-up call for machine learning engineers.
Apr 22, 2020
A Neural Net in Every Bathroom: A smart toilet uses AI to monitor waste for signs of disease.
It’s time to stop flushing valuable data down the toilet. The Precision Health Toilet, a suite of sensors that attach to an ordinary commode, monitors human waste for input for signs of disease. It identifies individual users by scanning where the sun doesn’t shine.
Apr 22, 2020
Preserving Detail in Image Inputs: Better image compression for computer vision datasets
Given real-world constraints on memory and processing time, images are often downsampled before they’re fed into a neural network. But the process removes fine details, and that degrades accuracy. A new technique squeezes images with less compromise.
Apr 22, 2020
New Machine Learning Resources
Machine learning engineers need tools and data to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Here are some that crossed our radar screen last week.
Apr 22, 2020
Covid-19 and the Shift to Online Learning
I spoke on Tuesday at Coursera’s annual conference. It was the company’s most well-attended conference yet, and the first to be held online. Higher education is in for turbulent times.
Apr 22, 2020
Workers of the World, Don’t Unite: Computer vision helped workers maintain social distance.
Computer vision is helping construction workers keep their social distance. Smartvid.io, a service that focuses on construction sites, offers a tool that recognizes when workers get too close to each other. The tool sends distancing warnings and reports to construction superintendents.
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