The popular benchmark banded around about Apache Spark‘s machine learning library MLlib is that it is ten times faster than Hadoop based Apache Mahout as an environment for building [...]
The furious rise of Japanese news app SmartNews, which has become the country’s most downloaded news app, is starting to see it’s popularity quickly cross the Pacific into the [...]
To date, most serious machine learning tools and efforts have been assembled around internal bespoke systems which have to make sense of insane amounts of unstructured data. Now Amazon has [...]
Jeff Heaton’s Kickstarter campaign to write the third book in his series on Artificial Intelligence for Humans came to the end of it’s funding period last week, having raised a lot [...]
Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium hold live talks throughout the academic year which are open to the public and last Tuesday saw Carey Nachenberg of Symantec and UCLA CS as guest [...]
Last week saw the New York City instalment of MLConf 2015 in a day which was bursting with insightful talks from respected experts who are at the leading edge of the commercial application of [...]
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and Co-founder of Santa Clara based GPU manufacturer Nvidia presented at this week’s GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, explaining how deep learning will allow [...]
There is every chance that the billions of us providing behavioural data to giants like Google and Facebook might be sleepwalking straight through the single most pivotal period in technological [...]
Pierre Garrigues is a Researcher in Machine Perception and Learning at Flickr and also spoke at the Deep Learning Summit at the end of January to give an insight into how Flickr are automating [...]
