A colleague once lamented about a controversy in their academic department (computer science) involving a potential new hire. The candidate in question was formally trained in physics but had a strong

Working With Your Hands Is Good for Your Brain Activities like writing, gardening and knitting can improve your cognition and mood. Tapping, typing and scrolling? Less so. Credit...Marine Buffard By M

Let’s play a little game. Imagine that you’re a computer scientist. Your company wants you to design a search engine that will show users a bunch of pictures corresponding to their keywords — somethin

W e all live in two worlds: a world outside of ourselves containing things that others can also see and hear and touch, and a world inside consisting of our thoughts and imaginations, which only exist

29 June 2021 by Richard Not falling, not ignoring: Odd and even are on one die. Thinking Like a Probability Distribution Hyakujō’s Fox is a classic Zen kōan attested from the year 1036 CE [ link ]. It

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15 June 2021 by Richard Okay so correlation does not imply causation. What now? Three Disappointing Things It isn’t my job to disappoint people, but I’m good at it. Other researchers are out there wri

Online, I use my real name for many things. But sometimes, I prefer to use a pseudonym. Not because I want to anonymously harass people or post incendiary comments unscathed; no, I simply want to mana

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Academia & Research LaTeX makes writing about writing, not formatting. Michael Apostol 11 hours ago · 5 min read Photo by Randy Laybourne on Unsplash I’ve used Microsoft Word to write for as long as I

This blog post started as an email conversation between Dana Turjeman and Meghan Duffy. Dana turned her initial outline into a twitter thread (starting here ). We decided it would be fun (and hopefull

I had a different post ready for this week, but in the light of the crisis we are currently living, and with thousands of scientists working from home, I thought about contributing with a more practic

Diagrams are effective communication elements which can visualize and make others understand our concepts faster than anything else. There are hundreds of drawing tools available online but choosing t

Top highlight Borijan Georgievski Apr 14 · 15 min read Mask R-CNN output on this image Choosing an object detection and tracking approach for an application nowadays might become overwhelming. This ar

You just got an exciting project where you have to build a program to detect if a door is open or closed using an image. You have collected a few hundred images of open doors and closed doors. Now, yo

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Caroline Sinders will be speaking at Software for Artists Day on July 18th. RSVP for the talk here . Can artwork be useful, can it be productive, and can it be a work of activism? We can look to Tania

Brief Overview Of Popular Python Libraries for Natural Language Processing Tasks Pawan Jain Jul 20 · 6 min read In this guide, we’ll be touring the essential stack of Python NLP libraries. These packa

Vered Shwartz Jul 10 · 9 min read With ACL becoming virtual this year, I unfortunately spent less time networking and catching up with colleagues, but as a silver lining I watched many more talks than

This post gathers ten ML and NLP research directions that I found exciting and impactful in 2019. For each highlight, I summarise the main advances that took place this year, briefly state why I think

This advice should be most relevant to people studying machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) as that is what I did in my PhD. Having said that, this advice is not just limited to

T here’s a lot of talk about accessible design, but have you ever thought about color accessibility? Recently, a client brought in a project with very specific, complex implementations of an accessible color system. This opened my eyes not only to how important this subject is, but also how much…

By , KDnuggets. comments Python is one of the most widely used languages in data science, and an incredibly popular general programming language on its own. Many prospective data scientists are first faced with the issue of which programming language might be their choice when diving into data…

Hello darkness, my old friend Overhyped or necessity? Learn everything about dark mode and how to support it to the benefit of your users! Jun 27, 2019 • Updated Jun 28, 2019 Thomas Steiner GitHub Introduction # 📚 I have done a lot of background research on the history and theory of dark mode,if you…

Color contrast is an important aspect of accessibility. Good contrast makes it easier for people with visual impairments to use products, and helps in imperfect conditions like low-light environments or older screens. With this in mind, we recently updated the colors in our user interfaces to be…

Last Updated on October 4, 2019 Bayes Theorem provides a principled way for calculating a conditional probability . It is a deceptively simple calculation, although it can be used to easily calculate the conditional probability of events where intuition often fails. Bayes Theorem also provides a way…

John Ball Jun 10 Device interactions need conversation, not keywords The inability to accurately recognize human language is a problem with state-of-the-art science. In part 1, we looked at the difference between language understanding in which the systems don’t understand what the words mean…

Krabi, Thailand by Mo Baghdadi In which Twitter talked about meaning, semantics, language models, learning Thai and Java, entailment, co-reference — all in one fascinating thread. Thomas Wolf Aug 7, 2018 Last week a tweet by Jacob Andreas triggered a huge discussion on Twitter that many people have…

New research from UC Berkeley suggests that language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition, rather than something humans are just hardwired to do. (Courtesy image iStock) Learning one’s native language may seem effortless. One minute, we’re babbling babies. The next…

Ryan Hoover Jan 27 I built my first website with Dreamweaver, a WYSIWYG site builder that became popular during my teenage years. I was so proud of my creation. It was ugly, but I made it. Although my silly website didn’t take off as I had dreamed, it was a gateway drug to creating things on the…

Julia Kho Oct 9, 2018 This article serves as a quick guide on one of the most important theorem that every data scientist should know, the Central Limit Theorem. What is it? When can you not use it? Why is it important? Is it the same thing as the law of large numbers? Central Limit Theorem vs. Law…

You can soon, if you insist, talk to your microwave — and it will listen. Amazon recently announced a $60 voice-activated microwave , along with 10 other new products using its Alexa voice assistant. Roll your eyes if you’d like, but it’s the latest example of Amazon’s obsession with making Alexa —…

Priya Dwivedi Sep 22, 2017 Doing cool things with data! This project is second phase of my popular project - Is Google Tensorflow Object Detection API the easiest way to implement image recognition ? In the original article I used the models provided by Tensorflow to detect common objects in youtube…

Making is a Kind of Thinking and Thinking is a Kind of Making Photo by Justine Hand When the ground shifts, the next chapter begins. Making things can expand one’s understanding of what it means to be human. Once, I made a series of drawings with my eyes closed that terrified me. After much…

Many designers don’t work with data directly. So why should they care about the General Data Protection Regulation , Europe’s far-reaching new privacy law? In short, GDPR will make privacy a mandatory design principle–and, in doing so, may redefine the profession. To prepare for the GDPR’s May 25th…

Pinterest Engineering Jul 20, 2018 Zack Argyle | Engineering manager, Core Experience The idea of building a “Progressive Web App” (PWA) is not new, but its definition has changed with the emergence of key technologies like service workers. Now it’s finally possible to build great experiences in a…

For those interview presentations, website portfolio projects, or just to improve your own process designing solutions.. Weston Karnes Jun 1, 2018 As a product designer who’s interviewed others as well as viewed plenty of portfolios, I often see a common link missing when it comes to how projects…