There’s a lot of research going on right now about how to teach robots to learn new things, and it all points to the same general conclusion: Without lots and lots… Read more »
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a method called LiveLight that they claim can watch generally uneventful videos and pick out the parts that viewers probably want, or need, to see. Read more »
The week in analytics news this past week did not disappoint. There were announcements aplenty, around data visualization favorites on new platforms; support for Hadoop 2.0 and YARN; new products; as… Read more »
Chris Wiggins, a theoretical physicist and mathematician who is the chief data scientist for the New York Times, says he is trying to help the paper detect patterns in the data… Read more »
Netflix explained how it’s using data analysis to do more than recommend movies in a blog post this week. From optimizing bitrate to churning through user feedback, advanced algorithms are helping… Read more »
Professional social network Declara has expanded its series A round to include two new investors and an additional $9 million in funding. The company’s technology platform uses machine learning to connect… Read more »
A startup called Ersatz Labs is promising deep learning, delivered via appliance or the cloud, usable by pretty much anybody already familiar with machine learning. It’s the latest attempt to take… Read more »
DNA-SEQ and 1QBit, two startups working on cancer research and financial modeling, respectively, have partnered with quantum computer manufacturer D-Wave Systems to try and develop applications that can run on the… Read more »
Deep learning is all the rage among the tech scene right now, and that’s more a result of its utility than because it sounds cool. Some questioned the feasibility of the… Read more »