This was first published on January 12th, 2018 at Subir Mansukhani’s Mailing List, Subirority Complex.
General
Embracing the Era of the Augmented Worker — Behavioral Scientist
Let’s make this the year we reclaim control of our data | WIRED UK
Differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and GDPR could help consumers wrestle back control of their personal information
8 fintech trends on our radar for 2018 — O’Reilly Media
AI, blockchain, payment regionalization, and other fintech trends to watch.
Machine Learning
Deep Learning: AlphaGo Zero Explained In One Picture — Data Science Central
Recently Google DeepMind announced AlphaGo Zero — an extraordinary achievement that has shown how it is possible to train an agent to a superhuman level in the…
Google and Others Are Building AI Systems That Doubt Themselves — MIT Technology Review
AI will make better decisions by embracing uncertainty.
Thinking out loud: hierarchical and interpretable multi-task reinforcement learning
We propose a hierarchical policy network which can reuse previously learned skills alongside and as subcomponents of new skills. It achieves this by discovering the underlying relations between skills.
Colin Raffel — Doing Strange Things with Attention — AI With The Best October 14–15, 2017 — YouTube
AI With The Best hosted 50+ speakers and hundreds of attendees from all over the world on a single platform on October 14–15, 2017. The platform held live ta…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): Engine and Applications
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of neural networks that are used in unsupervised machine learning. They help to solve such tasks as image generation from descriptions, getting high…
Technology
CES 2018 Las Vegas — January 8–12 — CNET
Our editors bring you complete coverage from CES 2018, and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around.
Silicon gains ground in quantum-computing race
The manufacturing techniques behind classical computing are making their way into quantum devices.
Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective — Facebook Research
Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing
Batch data processing — historically known as ETL — is extremely challenging. It’s time-consuming, brittle, and often unrewarding. Not only that, it’s hard to operate, evolve, and troubleshoot. In…
Nvidia reveals new AI platforms for smart assistants and AR in the car | TechCrunch
Nvidia revealed a lot of news about its Xavier autonomous machine intelligence processors at this year’s CES show in Las Vegas. The first production samples..
DataViz/UI/UX
Use Empty States to your Advantage — UX Design Collective
Empty States are often neglected and designed last. Compared to main screens, these aren’t important. Right? Sadly, no. At worst, users will uninstall your app in a day and never return.
UX trends for 2018, including artificial intelligence, chatbots, design
tools, process and other topics designers are writing and thinking about.
Google is really good at design | The Outline
The nerds have finally figured it out.
