This Week in Machine Learning, 24 July 2017

This week’s top Machine Learning stories: forecasting deaths on Game of Thrones, Discovery Week Nanodegree program savings, predicting property crime, and more!

Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in the world. Every week we discover something new, something amazing, something revolutionary. That’s why we created This Week in Machine Learning! Each week we publish a curated list of Machine Learning stories as a resource to help you keep pace with all these exciting developments. New posts will be published here first, and previous posts are archived on the Udacity blog.

Whether you’re currently enrolled in our Machine Learning Nanodegree program, already working in the field, or just pursuing a burgeoning interest in the subject, there will always be something here to inspire you!

Media

Researchers from Central European University use machine learning to predict the next death on Game of Thrones, using a learned representation of the show’s social system.

Healthcare

A joint effort by IBM Canada and the University of Alberta diagnoses instances of schizophrenia with 74 percent accuracy by applying machine learning to fMRI images.

Security

The Vancouver police department uses a machine learning-based “predictive policing” system to anticipate where property crimes are most likely to happen.

Education

As part of its Discovery Week promotion, Udacity offers never-before-seen savings on its Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree programs.

Industry

Apple launches a site to disseminate the results of its machine learning research; the Apple Machine Learning Journal currently discusses produces synthetic images.

Technology

Microsoft aims to build a new version of HoloLens leveraging a holographic processing unit (HPU) that supports deep neural network processing.