Artificiality Bites 💊 Issue #16

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3 min readNov 9, 2020

Hello Human! This is a new issue from my weekly newsletter, holding a tiny compilation made of interesting articles from last week, projects, tutorials and tools; all related to Data, Artificial Intelligence and adjacent topics. Bon appetit!

📝 Interesting articles this week

Doctor GPT-3: hype or reality? 9'
Several doctors and machine learning engineers at Nabla had the chance to test GPT-3 applied to different healthcare use cases.
Comparing Data Version Control Tools 9'
An overview of the top tools for machine learning and data version control.
Adapting on the Fly to Test Time Distribution Shift 9'
New unseen data can lead to a distribution shift, degrading our machine learning model performance. This article introduces a new approach to build adaptable models by relying on meta-learning methods.
Experimenting with Automatic Video Creation from a Web Page 8'
Google introduced URL2Video, a research prototype pipeline to automatically convert a web page into a short video, given temporal and visual constraints provided by the content owner.

💡 Projects

Tone/Transfer
Tone Transfer is a technology developed by the Magenta team in Google AI, which takes ordinary sounds (or human voice) and makes them sound like a musical instrument. It can also map a musical instrument onto a different one.
Castle in the Sky
Vision-based method for video sky replacement and harmonization, which can automatically generate realistic and dramatic sky backgrounds in videos with controllable styles.

🔧 Tutorials

OpenCV Course — Full Tutorial with Python 📹 3h 41'
Learn how to build a Computer Vision model to detect the characters in The Simpsons with OpenCV, covering from the basics (reading files, image transformations, drawing on images) to more advanced concepts (color spaces, edge detection, and thresholding).
Create a professional dashboard with Dash and CSS Bootstrap 23'
How to implement an interactive dashboard using Plotly's Dash and enhance the layout with CSS Bootstrap.

📦 Repositories

uber/orbit
Uber’s Orbit is a Python package for time series modeling and inference using Bayesian sampling methods for model estimation.
timescale/timescaledb
TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Version 2.0 just announced.

🎓 Books

Rise of the Self-Replicators 📕 176p
Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots that can Reproduce and Evolve, by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin. This is a free author-formatted PDF version of the entire book.