Ben Dickson

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• 6 things you should know before choosing a web hosting company

  Designing and developing websites is becoming increasingly easier and more accessible thanks to an expanding array of web development tools and a growing demand for businesses and organizations to have an online presence.  But finding the right place to host your website can be ...

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• Learn Python machine learning with these essential books and online courses

  Teaching yourself Python machine learning can be a daunting task if you don’t know where to start. Fortunately, there ...

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• Why training neural networks comes with a hefty price tag

  In recent years, deep learning has proven to be an effective solution to many of the hard problems of artificial intelligence. But deep learning is also becoming increasingly expensive. Running deep neural networks requires a lot of compute resources, training them even more. The ...

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• What is machine learning data poisoning?

  It’s not hard to tell that the image below shows three different things: a bird, a dog, and a horse. But to a machine learning algorithm, all three might the same thing: a small white box with a black contour. This example portrays one of the dangerous characteristics of machine ...

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• The future of AI depends on 9 companies — if they fail, we’re doomed

  If artificial intelligence will destroy humanity, it probably won’t be through killer robots and the ...

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• Can AI develop a sense of right and wrong?

  Can artificial intelligence learn the moral values of human societies? Can an AI system make decisions in situations where it must weigh and balance between damage and benefits to different people or groups of people? Can AI develop a sense of right and wrong? In short, will artificial ...

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• How ‘less-than-one-shot learning’ could open up new venues for machine learning research

  If I told you to imagine something between a horse and a bird—say, a flying horse—would you need to see a concrete example? ...

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• A beginner's guide to the math that powers machine learning

  How much math knowledge do you need for machine learning and deep learning? Some people say not much. Others say a lot. Both ...

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• 5 tech trends that will redefine finance in the next 5 years

  As one of the most ancient tenets of human societies, money and finance have been constantly evolving with advances in technology ...

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• Here’s what happened when neural networks took on the Game of Life

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

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• 6 practical tricks every Python developer should have

  Python has become a popular programming language because it is clear, versatile, easy to learn, and it has plenty of useful libraries for different tasks. From web development to data science and cybersecurity, Python programmers are high in demand.  But like all programming languages, ...

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• A realistic picture of how AI fits into today’s economy

  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming ...

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