Weekly Review 20 November 2015

I've not been posting to this blog very much recently. This is mostly because I have been putting more of my energy into posting interesting information on Twitter. My Twitter profile is here:

https://twitter.com/DrMikeWatts


I tweet there almost every day. Below is a list of my computational intelligence-related Tweets from the last week.

• 7 steps to machine learning in Python: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/seven-steps-machine-learning-python.html
• Social media for academics: https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/are-you-an-academic-hermit-6d7ae5a0f16a
• Predicting student success - http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/predictive-analytics-goes-to-college-to-predict-student-success
• Waste disposal, lawsuit selection and parking enforcement, 3 real-world applications of machine learning: http://www.datanami.com/2015/11/18/three-unique-ways-machine-learning-is-being-used-in-the-real-world/ 
• List of deep-learning tools: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/06/popular-deep-learning-tools.html
• Another cloud-based deep-learning system: http://www.datanami.com/2015/11/17/cloud-based-deep-learning-tool-explains-predictions/
• Predicting online gambling addiction using machine learning https://thestack.com/cloud/2015/10/26/machine-learning-to-help-predict-online-gambling-addiction/
• The role of machine learning in cybersecurity http://www.datanami.com/2015/11/16/machine-learnings-big-role-in-the-future-of-cybersecurity/ … I know of several papers applying my SECoS algorithm to cybersecurity
• Experiments with AWS machine learning: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/experimenting-with-aws-machine-learning-for-classification
• Microsoft open sources part of their machine learning technology: https://thestack.com/world/2015/11/13/microsoft-open-sources-its-machine-learning-toolkit/
• Neural storytellers: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/samim-recurrent-neural-net-describe-images-taylor-swift.html 
• List of JavaScript machine learning libraries: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/machine-learning-in-javascript-a-compilation-of-resources
• Many middle-class jobs are now being threatened by AI. How long before higher education goes the same way? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/12/thinking-machines-skilled-job-robots-steal When an AI can teach a class of undergrads, I'll be worried
• 7 free machine learning courses: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/7-free-machine-learning-courses 
• Natural Language Processing with Convolutional Neural Networks: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/understanding-convolutional-neural-networks-nlp.html 
• Facebook is also investing big in machine learning / artificial intelligence: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-outlines-its-artificial-and-machine-learning-ambitions-2015-11 
• TensorFlow, a neural network / machine intelligence toolkit from Google, now open source: https://tensorflow.org
• A report on some first experiences with TensorFlow: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/google-tensorflow-deep-learning-disappoints.html The author seems to be under-whelmed