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- tensorflow/agents: Efficient Batched Reinforcement Learning in TensorFlow
Efficient Batched Reinforcement Learning in TensorFlow
This project provides optimized infrastructure for reinforcement learning. It extends the OpenAI gym interface to multiple parallel environments and allows agents to be implemented in TensorFlow and perform batched computation. As a starting point, we provide BatchPPO, an optimized implementation of Proximal Policy Optimization.
- A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder – The New York Times
- What We Can Learn From Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
- [1803.08035] Zero-shot Recognition via Semantic Embeddings and Knowledge Graphs
We consider the problem of zero-shot recognition: learning a visual classifier for a category with zero training examples, just using the word embedding of the category and its relationship to other categories, which visual data are provided. The key to dealing with the unfamiliar or novel category is to transfer knowledge obtained from familiar classes to describe the unfamiliar class. In this paper, we build upon the recently introduced Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) and propose an approach that uses both semantic embeddings and the categorical relationships to predict the classifiers. Given a learned knowledge graph (KG), our approach takes as input semantic embeddings for each node (representing visual category). After a series of graph convolutions, we predict the visual classifier for each category. During training, the visual classifiers for a few categories are given to learn the GCN parameters. At test time, these filters are used to predict the visual classifiers of unseen categories. We show that our approach is robust to noise in the KG. More importantly, our approach provides significant improvement in performance compared to the current state-of-the-art results (from 2 ~ 3% on some metrics to whopping 20% on a few).
- "Never apologize, never explain!" Pictures of Marianne Faithfull – Flashbak
- The Male Glance | VQR Online
- Sean Penn The Novelist Must Be Stopped
- Google loses Android battle and could owe Oracle billions of dollars – Mar. 27, 2018
- Supplementary material for Faces, people and the brain: The 45th Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture
- How DevRel fits the business – Dev Prod – Medium
- Charles Proxy now available on iOS – Karl von Randow
This is really fun. It sets itself up as a VPN in order to intercept traffic, and can intercept SSL too if you install its certificate. Worth the $8.99 – lets you spy on apps without having to proxy through a laptop https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/978844829277917189
- Research Blog: Using Deep Learning to Facilitate Scientific Image Analysis
- DataCenterNews Asia – GTC18 – NVIDIA ready to go all out on inferencing
- Inspecting Algorithms for Bias – MIT Technology Review
- kubeflow/example-seldon: Example for end-to-end machine learning on Kubernetes using Kubeflow and Seldon Core
Example for end-to-end machine learning on Kubernetes using Kubeflow and Seldon Core
- SeldonIO/seldon-core: Machine Learning Deployment for Kubernetes
Seldon Core is an open source platform for deploying machine learning models on Kubernetes.
- Past Events | GDG Cloud Seattle (Seattle, WA) | Meetup
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March 27th, 2018 — pinboard
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March 24th, 2018 — pinboard
- The Best Stand Up on Netflix — Every New 2018 Comedy Special, Ranked | IndieWire | Page 3
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- Aashna Shroff, “Bridging the Gender Gap in Technology in Developing Countries†– YouTube
- Fundraiser for CITTA Inc. by Citta Central : Cultural Festival: Girls Education
- Prerna Girls School
- 15 Years of Collecting Rhino Semen Is Finally Paying Off – Mother Jones
- China and Vulnerability Research – the grugq – Medium
- Arvind Narayanan on Twitter: "Tech buzzwords explained: AI—regression Big data—data Blockchain—database Algorithm—automated decision-making Cloud—Internet Crypto—cryptocurrency Dark web—Onion service Data science—statistics done by nonstat
- Devorah Heitner Remembers the Simon’s Rock Shooting – The Atlantic
- On Retirement – Studio D – Medium
- Bletchley Park | What’s on — Hut 11A: The Bombe Breakthrough
- Nathalie Cabrol Searches the Earth for the Secrets of Life on Mars – The New York Times
- The Last Days of Reality
Finally got around to reading @mpesce’s excellent (and extremely relevant) essay The Last Days of Reality. About machine-learning, Facebook, ‘technologically supported hallucination’, augmented reality and more https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-last-days-of-reality/
- GitHub – batzner/indrnn: TensorFlow implementation of Independently Recurrent Neural Networks
- Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous: Paul Ford – Bloomberg
- Whistleblowers: John Bolton super PAC used compromised Facebook data – CNNPolitics
- At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me – The New York Times
- Scott Kerr on Twitter: "“Automation: Friend, not Foe†informational pamphlet published by Good Reading Rack Service, 1955… "
- Pinboard on Twitter: "I’ll be sending out another Great Slate update later today for people who want to nerd out in more detail about how the campaigns are doing. You can sign up for this 1-2 email/week list here: https://t.co/GMKpJDQFHi"
- Earthquake early warning system gets big funding boost in new budget
- How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer | Open Culture
- Leaked: Cambridge Analytica’s blueprint for Trump victory | UK news | The Guardian
- Inside Broadway’s Secret Laboratory: ‘Hamilton,’ ‘Frozen,’ and So Much More – The New York Times
This is absolutely *STELLAR* work from @MichaelPaulson and the NYT video team (including @maeryan) taking you behind the scenes for Broadway rehearsals, including @FrozenBroadway and @HamiltonMusical. Urge you to watch: http://nyti.ms/2FVBduO
- Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan
- Curiosities Archives – Undark
Undark is a free, nonprofit digital magazine exploring the intersection of science & everyday life.
Our board members include Mary Roach, Carl Zimmer, and Rebecca Skloot. Our publisher is Pulitzer-winning science writer Deborah Blum.
Take a look around: https://undark.org/tag/curiosities/ https://twitter.com/undarkmag/status/974270403295117312/photo/1
- The Latest Cambridge Analytica Exposé Raises More Questions About the Firm’s Role in the Trump Campaign | The New Yorker
- Car companies hire climate science denier to do hit job on clean cars – ThinkProgress
- Stephen Works Out With Ruth Bader Ginsburg – YouTube
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