France Just Named This Tiny Place Its Favorite Village

This small town in Alsace beat out 13 other villages for the title this year.

Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools? (Published 2018)

New Caledonian crows were trained to seek rewards by tearing paper of a certain size, demonstrating what researchers say is quite advanced toolmaking.

Death and Dying in the Canadian Arctic

The following is from Nowhere Magazine’s 2016 print annual. * The flight to Cape Dorset, an Inuit community on a small island in the Canadian Arctic, was due to depart in minutes, but Inuit e…

The 17 Best Indie Movies of 2018 (So Far) | IndieWire

The fall season is upon us, but there are already many, many cinematic highlights in 2018.

An Ohio Startup Rebuilds Lives One Piece of Fried Chicken at a Time - POLIT

A millennial entrepreneur hires from inmates and homeless people who struggle to find work even in a strong economy.

The Best Chef's Knives

We tested 33 chef’s knives, evaluating their sharpness and using them to dice onions, slice tomatoes, and more. We found seven favorites.

Inside the 20-year decline of Toys R Us

Cost cuts, stressed employees, intercompany rivalries, dirty floors, dusty rafters, glitchy IT, fudged metrics: The people who ran the failed toy retailer's stores know what went wrong.

Web Caching Explained by Buying Milk at the Supermarket

This visual explanation will help you understand all the common ways to implement caching

The Counterfeit Queen of Soul | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom

Free E-Book: Software Defined Radio for Engineers

We really like when a vendor finds a great book on a topic — probably one they care about — and makes it available for free. Analog Devices does this regularly and one you should probab…

Mauby

Mauby has been a cure-all and refresher since the 1900s.

Magnetic sensor market sees growing adoption of xMR technologies, says Yole

Magnetic sensors have been historically dominated by Hall-effect technology. However, this situation has evolved over time, with increasing penetration of xMR technologies, namely AMR, GMR, and more recently TMR, according Yole Developpement. The research firm estimates that the…

What a Russian Smile Means - Issue 61: Coordinates

How culture and history make American and Russian smiles different.

Finally, a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Will Ever Be Able to Solve | Quanta Magazine

Computer scientists have been searching for years for a type of problem that a quantum computer can solve but that any possible future classical computer cannot. Now they’ve found one.

Kitfo - Gastro Obscura

Kitfo is a blend of raw beef, butter, and spice.

15 Tools for Animation

If you’re interested in creating content to promote your product or service, think about making a cartoon. Producing animation has several advantages over

Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost Indigenous Languages from Old Wax Cylinder Recordings

He did not, visionary though he was, conceive of one extraordinary use to which wax cylinders might be put—the recovery or reconstruction of extinct and endangered indigenous languages and cultures in California.

Attacks against machine learning — an overview

This blog post surveys the attacks techniques that target AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems and how to protect against them.

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Model evaluation, model selection, and algorithm selection in machine learn

A single-PDF version of Model Evaluation parts 1-4 is available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12808

https://blog.statsbot.co/data-structures-related-to-machine-learning-algorithms-5edf77c8bbf4

Neural networks for algorithmic trading. Multimodal and multitask deep learning

Here we are again! We already have four tutorials on financial forecasting with artificial neural networks where we compared different…

Feature Engineering with Tidyverse

Stay up-to-date on the latest data science and AI news in the worlds of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, implementation, and more.

Realtime with React and Rails - via @codeship | via @codeship

To showcase using ActionCable in a Rails app with React

RailsApps/rails-composer: Rails Composer. The Rails generator on steroids f

Rails Composer. The Rails generator on steroids for starter apps. - RailsApps/rails-composer

Using Codeship for Ruby Application Deployments

In the first part of this series, I walked through developing a simple todo API using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL using Docker Compose. In this post, I will cover creating a CI/CD pipeline using Codeship Pro.

Text Classifier Algorithms in Machine Learning – Stats and Bots

Introduction to Market Basket Analysis in Python

Using mlxtend to perform market basket analysis on online retail data set.

Set Theory Ordered Pairs and Cartesian Product with R

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My journey from Rspec feature tests to Rails system tests

A story of failure getting consistent headless feature tests, to trying again with many different ways to make rspec work, then converting to Rails system tests in Rails 5.1.

reiinakano/scikit-plot: An intuitive library to add plotting functionality

An intuitive library to add plotting functionality to scikit-learn objects. - reiinakano/scikit-plot

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Stay up-to-date on the latest data science and AI news in the worlds of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, implementation, and more.

Monte Carlo theory, methods and examples (2013)

Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading

Originally published at https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/finance-python-trading

Frequency Distribution Analysis using Python Data Stack – Part 1

During my years as a Consultant Data Scientist I have received many requests from my clients to provide frequency distribution

Elliptic Curves as Python Objects | Math ∩ Programming

Last time we saw a geometric version of the algorithm to add points on elliptic curves. We went quite deep into the formal setting for it (projective space $ \mathbb{P}^2$), and we spent a lot of time talking about the right way to define the “zero” object in our elliptic curve…

Modern Machine Learning Algorithms: Strengths and Weaknesses

Get to know the ML landscape through this practical, concise overview of modern machine learning algorithms. Plus, we'll discuss the tradeoffs of each.

Berkeley CS189 Machine Learning: Complete Lecture Notes [pdf]

An Intro to Integer Programming for Engineers: Simplified Bus Scheduling

Explore what’s new, what’s next, and what should be on your radar in the world of transportation. Our insights are supported by real-world data from our partners across the globe.

timekit: Time Series Forecast Applications Using Data Mining

The timekit package contains a collection of tools for working with time series in R. There’s a number of benefits. One of the biggest is the ability to use a time series signature to predict future values (forecast) through data mining techniques. W...

Data Science for Operational Excellence (Part-5)

Operations need to have demand forecasts in order to establish optimal resource allocation policies. But, when we make predictions the only thing that we assure is the occurrence of prediction errors. Fortunately, there is no need to be 100% accurate to succeed, we just need to…

Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Linux load averages explained, including why they include the uninterruptible I/O sleep state.

Enabling signal processing over data streams

40 Techniques Used by Data Scientists - Data Science Central

These techniques cover most of what data scientists and related practitioners are using in their daily activities, whether they use solutions offered by a vendor, or whether they design proprietary tools. When you click on any of the 40 links below, you will find a selection of…

Basic Signal Operations in DSP: Constant-Valued and Alternating Signals

In this article, we’ll discuss a few elementary signal operations by considering one of the signals to be constant-valued.

https://blog.statsbot.co/introduction-to-imitation-learning-32334c3b1e7a

Python decorators, the right way: the 4 audiences of programming languages

Python decorators are a useful but flawed language feature. Intended to make source code easier to write, and a little more readable, they neglect to address another use case: that of the programmer who will be calling the decorated code. If you’re a Python programmer, the…

Creating a Blogging App Using React, Part 5: Profile Page

In the previous part of this tutorial series, you saw how to implement the update and delete post feature for our React blog application. In this tutorial, you'll implement the profile page for...

Builder design pattern in Ruby – kkempin’s dev blog – Medium

Builder pattern in Ruby is useful when the algorithm how to build an object is something independent of the parts that makes the object.

scikit-surprise 1.0.5 : Python Package Index

An easy-to-use library for recommender systems.