Top news of the week: 03.09.2020.
Learning, CUDA, Animal testing, Evolutionary robotics, Academia, Archive
Research
Allen Institute open-sources AllenAct, a framework for research in embodied AI https://t.co/UFXeti6Tjp by @Kyle_L_Wiggers
OpenAllen Institute open-sources AllenAct, a framework for research in embodied AI
The Allen Institute for AI's new open source framework -- AllenAct -- aims to promote reproducible research in embodied AI with a focus on modularity.
RT @yukez: Taught my first (online) class @UTCompSci. Super pumped to teach a grad-level Robot Learning seminar this fall. Great to see UT students from all kinds of backgrounds passionate about learning what’s going on at the forefront of AI + Robotics🤘Syllabus: https://t.co/1qiqrCqlse
OpenCS391R: Robot Learning
It demands a new form of general-purpose robot autonomy that robots understand the world through the lens of its perception and make informed decisions accordingly. This course …
RT @zaydenam: Great piece by @chandna on how sales has changed and how @cresta can help:
https://t.co/jM4Aa7dx9c
OpenThe Coming Digitization Of Enterprise Software Sales: Four Trends Winning Teams Will Embrace.
Few areas of business have felt more disruption from the pandemic than enterprise software sales – and few have seen as much rapid adaptation to the current environment. Using the tools of ...
RT @timnitGebru: First of a series of blogposts on archives and ML here: https://t.co/uyewoQJk5a, written by @unsojo.
OpenTowards (More) Interventionist Data Collection in Machine Learning
This blog post is a discussion and extension based on the academic paper. There is also a corresponding short video presentation.
Adding to our global roster of DeepMind scholarship partners, we’re pleased to announce the latest addition with @sofiauniversity in Bulgaria! Read more about the programme here: https://t.co/1cI2n4Q1sq
OpenSofia University to strengthen relationship with DeepMind through scholarship programme
Two DeepMind graduate scholarships for students wishing to pursue a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Information Extraction and Knowledge Discovery at the Faculty of ...
Microsoft researchers propose a new natural language processing paradigm—one in which models are pretrained from scratch entirely within a specialized domain. Learn about the new BLURB benchmark, leaderboard, and state-of-the-art model for biomedical NLP: https://t.co/xHX7Z26pSa
OpenDomain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic ...
RT @NVIDIAAI: “It’s really a powerful analyst platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to surface and summarize information at scale.” Read more about #NVIDIAInception member, @primer_ai : https://t.co/D80Adgeiyl https://t.co/SXC7jdJ5ga
OpenSpeed Reader: Startup Primer Helps Analysts Make Every Second Count
Primer's natural language processing and machine learning platform reads and collates information for analysts in a fraction of the time it would normally take.
RT @eugeneyan: Why read papers? Because it:
• Widens our perspective
• Keeps us up to date
• Helps us deliver with less time & effort
Here, I'll share some ways to pick papers, how-to resources, and my approach (with screenshots).
https://t.co/7hGjxpkUvZ
OpenHow Reading Papers Helps You Be a More Effective Data Scientist
Why read papers, what papers to read, and how to read them.