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On Aug 4, 2020
@RichardSocher shared
RT @ForbesTech: 3 ways artificial intelligence will change healthcare By @KonstantineBuhl https://t.co/7aVRU3bC4H
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3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare

3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Change Healthcare

For most medical professionals, artificial intelligence (AI) will be an accelerant and enabler, not a threat. It would be good business for AI companies as well to help, rather than attempt ...

On Aug 5, 2020
@MSFTResearch shared
Join Ozan Oktay today around 10:40 AM PT to hear more about Microsoft Research's Inner Eye project. Watch the live stream here: https://t.co/5ZOTXOPaiB #AIMI20 Full agenda: https://t.co/umIU9z0VJP https://t.co/D0y886aq7T
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Agenda

Agenda

August 5, 2020 at 8:30am-4:30pm PDT8:30am Welcome and OverviewMatthew Lungren - Associate Professor of Radiology, Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, ...

On Aug 3, 2020
@jaykreps shared
RT @confluentinc: Tencent PCG uses @apachekafka to transfer 4 million messages/second for a single product. Learn how they scale their real-time data pipeline using federated Kafka clusters to handle this peak workload with low latency, a high SLA, and flexibility: https://t.co/BVaPh5QtpI https://t.co/U9KoAvjTsP
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How Tencent PCG Uses Apache Kafka to Handle 10 Trillion+ Messages Per Day

How Tencent PCG Uses Apache Kafka to Handle 10 Trillion+ Messages Per Day

Learn how Tencent uses Apache Kafka as a gigantic, real-time, multi-tenant pub/sub system to process hundreds of Gb/s of data and 10 trillion+ messages per day.

On Aug 4, 2020
@peteskomoroch shared
Syntiant raises $35 million for AI speech-processing edge chips https://t.co/0q0aM0ayVd via @VentureBeat
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Syntiant raises $35 million for AI speech-processing edge chips

Syntiant raises $35 million for AI speech-processing edge chips

Syntiant, a startup developing AI and machine learning edge hardware for voice processing, has raised $35 million in venture capital.

On Aug 3, 2020
@ryan_p_adams shared
RT @PrincetonCS: Congrats @orussakovsky! https://t.co/lGWIXRr1Wu https://t.co/Af8qZFxyGt
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Dr. Olga Russakovsky

Dr. Olga Russakovsky

Dr. Olga Russakovsky is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She is one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, and has been ...

On Aug 4, 2020
@MSFTResearch shared
Microsoft researchers are helping to advance ML in such areas as accessibility and healthcare. If you missed it, check out their contributions to #ICML2020, including Transformer-based RL agents and causal learning for increased utility and privacy: https://t.co/N9AOI2Jo1R
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ICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more

ICML 2020 highlights: A Transformer-based RL agent, causal ML for increased privacy, and more

With over 50 papers from Microsoft accepted at this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), a number of which were presented in virtual workshops, Microsoft ...

On Aug 5, 2020
@xamat shared
Domain-specific pretraining of language models helps, at least in highly specific domains such as biomedical: https://t.co/QyUAmTVcnL
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Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model

Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model

Microsoft researchers propose a new training technique that achieves state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing biomedical tasks.

On Aug 4, 2020
@jeremyphoward shared
RT @HamelHusain: 😍This blog post manages to combine all my favorite things:😍 - @ProjectJupyter - @fastdotai fastpages - #MLOps - @github Apps - Tools for OSS maintainers - @kubeflow - GitOps - A good meme Fav phrase: 😱“There are no Dags” https://t.co/tuUF0ExLvd
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Data Science Meets Devops: MLOps with Jupyter, Git, & Kubernetes

Data Science Meets Devops: MLOps with Jupyter, Git, & Kubernetes

An end-to-end example of deploying a machine learning product using Jupyter, Papermill, Tekton, GitOps and Kubeflow.