Artificiality Bites 💊 Issue #49

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. Boa leitura!

📝 Interesting publications from last week

• Blender Bot 2.0: An open source chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet 10'
  Facebook AI Research has built and open-sourced BlenderBot 2.0, the first chatbot that can simultaneously build long-term memory it can continually access, search the internet for timely information.

• AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle 42'
  An comprehensive article on AlphaFold 2 explaining how it works, why it performs so well, and what it might do for biology now that it is freely available.
• Charting the ‘Data for Good’ Landscape 25'
  An attempt to make clear what some "Data/AI for Good" initiatives are trying to achieve, how they do it, and what makes them similar or different from one another.

• From Vision to Language: Semi-supervised Learning in Action… at Scale 9'
  Google introduced Semi-Supervised Distillation (SSD), a simplified version of Noisy Student applied to language understanding within the context of Google Search, resulting in high performance gains.
• The Quick and Dirty Guide to Building Your Data Platform 15'
  A guide on the 6 must-have layers you need to include in your data platform and the order in which many of the best teams choose to implement them.
• Is MLP-Mixer a CNN in Disguise? 19'
  A look into the MLP Mixer architecture in detail and why the community thinks that this architecture is not "Conv-free".

🔧 Tutorials

• Guide to Reinforcement Learning with Python and TensorFlow 24'
  A guide to Deep Q-Learning and its implementation with Python, TensorFlow and TensorFlow Agents.

📦 Repositories

• deepmind/alphafold
  AlphaFold 2 code was finally open sourced by DeepMind. And the paper was also published.
• quickwit-inc/quickwit
  Quickwit is a distributed search engine built from the ground up to offer cost-efficiency and high reliability.

🎓 Courses / Events / Talks

• Lifecycle of an AI project — MFML Part 2 📹 83'
  Making Friends with Machine Learning was an internal-only Google course specially created to inspire beginners and amuse experts. The second part is now available to everyone.
• IoT for Beginners
  Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum about IoT basics. Each lesson includes quizzes, instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment and more.

• My Journey to Deep Learning 📹 58'
  What Jeremy Howard learned on his own journey, and why he believes nearly all data scientists should invest heavily in becoming effective deep learning practitioners.

🚀 Extra bits

• Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon 9'
• AI voice actors sound more human than ever — and they’re ready to hire 12'
• The automated writing assistance landscape in 2021 16'
• RMA: Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots (Results) 3'
• Paris welcomes first pizzeria operated entirely by robots 2'
• UCSF scientists translate unspoken words of paralyzed man into writing 7'
• Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse? 20'

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👋 See you next week!