Author(s: Team AI news and research updates. Also, our monthly editorial picks. You can view this email on a browser if you are having trouble reading it. The mathematical model of game structure and balancing is called Game Theory. This is used to facilitate interactions among multiple parties in order to achieve the best results. Google used it to create Starcraft II’s AI in four hours. It’s excellent understanding of strategy and risk makes it a valuable tool for teaching AI systems how to adapt and be flexible. Before diving into how game theory was used to redefine PCA, check out this exciting and free-to-access event, presented by Anyscale: [Free] Ray Summit June 22-24: Scalable Python & ML for everyone See how Ray, the open-source Python framework, is used for building distributed apps and libraries, including backend infrastructures and ML platforms. Ray’s popularity is increasing rapidly and many companies now use it due to its efficiency, flexibility and scalability. Register here to join Ray Summit livestreaming or on-demand. All sessions are completely free. This editorial pick is a brief overview of DeepMind’s method that uses game theory in order to reinvent PCA. OpenReview has the paper DeepMind won for ICLR, “EigenGame PCA as an Nash Equilibrium”. Let’s be honest. It is often difficult to understand and use AI systems. This is especially true in the area of machine learning. A community that allows people to come together and share their ideas is crucial if we are going to create intelligent systems people can interact with. We created Discord’s AI community to help data enthusiasts and experts connect. You are interested in machine learning, especially if you’re a highly skilled and innovative person. This talk from Snorkel AI, a researcher at Snorkel who is also an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin, will be of interest to you. This year’s Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS), is increasing their remote accessibility efforts and has created 2021 Meetups. For more information, visit this article on hosting a NeurIPS 2021 meetup. We recently published a book about descriptive statistics using Python. The following article and this PDF provide a sampling of the 36 pages from the book. You can still access the work and many other books by signing up as a member. Giving is sharing. Feel free to send our newsletter and subscription link out to your colleagues, friends, or acquaintances. You can unsubscribe at any time. We would love to hear your feedback about how we could improve. Let’s move on to the monthly picks. These articles are selected based on the number of views, followers, and readers that a particular piece receives. We hope that you find them enjoyable as much as they did. We also tried something completely new. Our editors will select the top performing articles and we will also choose essays with good quality that have made it to the final cut. DeepMind Wants to Reimagine One of the Most Important Algorithms in Machine Learning by Jesus Rodriguez Principal component analysis(PCA) is one of the key algorithms that are part of any machine learning curriculum. PCA was first created in the early 1900s. It is an essential algorithm for understanding data in high-dimensional spaces which are common to deep learning problems. [ Read More ] Job Market Trend Analysis for 2021. Team. Are you currently preparing for a job interview for data science in 2021?? The hiring trends for data science jobs have been analyzed from many different online job portals. These insights should help you prepare for interviews by helping to analyze the market demand and expectations. [ Read More ] Genre Predictions From Movie Dialogue By Harry Roper Anybody with any interest in movies would be able identify the film that inspired the line above, and infer the genre. A good quote can make all the difference. However, does cinematic dialogue have the same impact on a computer’s ears? The article will use Natural Language Processing features (NLP), to create a classification model that predicts movie genres using exchanges between their dialogue. [ Read More ] Bitcoin price prediction with RNN, LSTM and Python by Amit Chanhan. In this article we’ll discuss a Bitcoin price prediction program. The libraries that are used in this program will also be discussed with graphic representations. [ Read More ] Interpretation with SHAP of Isolation Forest by Eugenia Annello Isolation Forest, one of the most popular techniques for detecting anomalies in data. This technique is based upon a forest of trees where every isolation tree separates the anomalous observations from all the other data points. It is simple, fast, and intuitive, but there’s a problem. It lacks explanation. The algorithm considers a specific observation to be anomalous. What can be done to interpret the output? [ Read More ] The Essential Linear Algebra to Data Science and Machine Learning, Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D. Linear algebra is an important branch of mathematics for data science and machine-learning. Linear algebra, the core math skill of machine learning, is crucial. Many machine learning models are able to be described in matrix format. A matrix is often used to represent a dataset. [ Read More ] An Effective New Image Classification Method that Doesn’t Use CNNs or Attention by Makoto TAKAMATSU. In this post I want to introduce MLP–Mixer. It was first presented in May 2021. by Google Research Brain Team, the same team as Vision Transformers. The MLP-Mixer is based on ViT. It can train on large datasets nearly three times quicker and produces similar results to state-of the-art models like ViT or BiT. [ Read More ] Outlier detection by Alexandra Amidon. This is machine learning that aims to detect unusual items, events or observations which are not in the norm or distribution of given data. [ Read More ] What are the 5 W’s of web scraping? By John Bica. Web Scraping is an essential concept. Many tutorials and articles explain how to build your web scraper in just 5 steps, or only 8 minutes. While scraping is a simple task, most web scraping projects will not fit the mold of a cookie cutter. Many website structures are complex and difficult to navigate. [ Read More ] Realistic Lighting to Change the Background of Portraits by Louis Bouchard Ever wanted to make a photo look more realistic but change its background? You’ve probably tried it before and you know how difficult it can be. It’s not enough to take just one picture of you.
