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+++ Five Interesting Data Engineering Projects +++ A new model and dataset for long-range memory +++ Building a Backtesting Service to Measure Model Performance at Uber-scale +++

+++ Near-perfect point-goal navigation from 2.5 billion frames of experience +++ Google’s ML-fairness-gym: A Tool for Exploring Long-Term Impacts of Machine Learning Systems +++ Facebook launches PyTorch3D, a 3D deep learning library +++ White House reportedly aims to double AI research budget to $2B +++ Facebook has acquired Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup +++ Avigilon’s Appearance Search Can Tell Schools Where Students Are And Where They’ve Been +++ Google, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter demand Clearview stop scraping images for facial recognition +++ Quantifying Independently Reproducible Machine Learning +++ RGISTools: Downloading, Customizing, and Processing Time-Series of Remote Sensing Data in R +++ Ignite the Spark: Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes using PySpark +++

+++ Google says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world +++ Facebook is Open-sourcing Polygames, a new framework for training AI bots through self-play +++ An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus +++ Europe wants single data market to break U.S. tech giants’ dominance +++ Meena: Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About Anything +++ Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles +++ A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques for Autonomous Driving +++

+++ Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning +++ Microsoft open sources BERT optimizations in ONNX runtime +++ Introducing the Hopsworks Feature Store – the Data Warehouse for Machine Learning +++ Why Google thinks we need to regulate AI +++ A Look Back on Baidu’s AI Innovations in 2019 +++ Kernel-Based Ensemble Learning in Python +++ An introduction to audio data analysis using Python +++ Spark in Docker in Kubernetes: A practical approach for scalable NLP +++

+++ Google’s AI language model Reformer can process the entirety of novels +++ World Economic Forum launches toolkit to help corporate boards build AI-first companies +++ Apple has quietly acquired low-power AI startup Xnor.ai for about $200M +++ Up to two billion times acceleration of scientific simulations with deep neural architecture search +++ Researchers propose system that taps AI to see hidden objects around corners +++

+++ Uber is Open Sourcing Manifold, a Visual Debugging Tool for Machine Learning +++ Lyft releases Flyte, a platform for maintaining AI workflows +++ Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond +++ Facebook AI year in review: 2019 +++ An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions +++

+++ An artificial intelligence predicts the future +++ Google’s AI breast cancer screening tool is learning to generalize across countries +++ The Decade of Deep Learning +++ Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution +++ A Decade in Review in Tech +++ Catalog of Variable Transformations To Make Your Model Work Better +++

+++ Facebook has a neural network that can do advanced math +++ Google’s AI can identify wildlife from trap-camera footage with up to 98.6% accuracy +++ Intel acquires AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2 billion +++ eBay open-sources AI platform Krylov +++ AI experts urge machine learning researchers to tackle climate change +++ Top 10 Python libraries of 2019 +++

+++ With Hanabi-playing bot, Facebook AI reaches a milestone in cooperative AI +++ Baidu is Training an AI to Move Like a Human +++ Google launches E2 family of virtual machines for smaller workloads +++ AI Index 2019 assesses global AI research, investment, and impact +++ Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine +++ Personalizing the Joke Skill of a Voice-Controlled Virtual Assistant +++ Why scientists need to be better at data visualization +++

+++ An Epidemic of AI Misinformation +++ AWS launches SageMaker Studio, a web-based IDE for machine learning +++ Netflix open-sources Metaflow framework +++ ‘Short window’ to stop AI taking control of society, warns ex-Google employee +++ Deep Learning For Symbolic Mathematics +++ Alibaba: Dynamic Pricing with Deep RL +++ Training multi-agent AI systems to solve complex tasks through cooperation +++ A Visual Guide to Using BERT for the First Time +++ Vaex: How to analyse 100 GB of data on your laptop with Python +++