Top news of the week: 06.01.2022.
Research
Real-time machine learning: challenges and solutions
Discussion: Online prediction for bandits and contextual bandits ………… Bandits for model evaluation ………… Contextual bandits as an exploration strategy …. Starting with a batch …
Review: Nvidia AI Enterprise shines on VMware
Nvidia’s VMware-optimized AI software stack offers a strong alternative to doing machine learning in the AWS, Azure, and Google clouds. Nvidia LaunchPad lets you try it out for free.
John Deere's Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming
The automation, and control of the resulting data, raise questions about the role of human farmers.
Purely Data-Driven Approaches to Weather Prediction: Promise and Perils
The use of machine learning (ML) models for weather prediction has emerged as a popular area of research. The promise of these models — whether in conjunction with more traditional ...
HydroMoth: Testing a prototype low-cost acoustic recorder for aquatic environments
In this paper, we demonstrate the current lack of commercially available low-cost aquatic sound recorders. We then test a prototype device that is twenty times cheaper than currently ...
Review of my 2017 Forecasts
TL;DR: I got a lot of stuff right and a lot of stuff wrong. My Brier score (a measure of forecasting skill) was .22 , which is slightly better than chance but not great. My forecasts were ...
The Internet Of Beefs
The culture war has turned into an endemic condition of online honor-based conflict.