Artificiality Bites 💊 Issue #18

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

• Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes software engineering best practices (GitHub) 4'
  While a subset of ideas from literate programming have shown up in several frameworks, there has been a lack of tools covering the entire software development life cycle. Nbdev builds on top of Jupyter notebooks to fill these gaps.
• How AI is getting better at detecting hate speech (Facebook AI) 7'
  Facebook claims its new AI moderation tools now detects 94,7% of hate speech that gets deleted from the platform. This publication explains how these new tools work.
• Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures (Google AI) 10'
  Google presented Chimera Painter, a machine learning model that automatically creates a fully fleshed out creature from a user-supplied outline.

💡 Projects

• WID.world
  The World Inequality Database provides access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries. It was updated this month with estimates for 50additional countries.
• FSD50K
  FSD50K is an open dataset of human-labeled sound events, containing more than 51K audio clips using 200 classes.

📦 Repositories

• replicate/replicate
  Version control for machine learning implemented in Python. Automatically track code, hyperparameters, training data, model weights, metrics, and dependencies.
• kennysong/adversarial.js
  An interactive in-browser demonstration of adversarial attacks on neural networks, implemented in JavaScript.
• fonsp/Pluto.jl
  Simple reactive notebooks for Julia
• unitaryai/detoxify
  Toxic Comment Classification with Pytorch Lightning and Transformers.

🎓 Courses / Events

• TensorFlow: Advanced Techniques
  In this new specialization offered in Coursera by deepleaning.ai, you will gain practical knowledge and hands-on training in advanced TensorFlow techniques such as style transfer, object detection, and generative machine learning.
• Data & AI — Digital Developer Conference
  IBM offers a chance to learn from industry experts on how to build AI-based applications. This conference is being held on November 24 for India and Asia Pacific. It was already held 2 weeks ago for Europe and America, with all the content made online available, plus additional bonuses (free access to 4 Coursera certifications and $300 in credits).

🚀 Extra bits

• Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back 10'
• Amazon Textract adds handwriting recognition and support for new languages 3'

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👋 See you next week!