Weekly Review 26 February 2016

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week:

1. Cloud-based machine learning API: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/cloud-machine-learning-apis
2. Deep learning for everyone: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/02/opening-deep-learning-everyone.html
3. Feature selection for random forests: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/choosing-features-for-random-forests-algorithm
4. Some model evaluation metrics: http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2016/02/7-important-model-evaluation-error-metrics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:%20AnalyticsVidhya%20%28Analytics%20Vidhya%29
5. Being an academic isn't that bad: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jan/08/cheer-up-my-academic-colleagues-were-so-lucky-to-do-this-job
6. Why do academics drink so much? http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jan/22/why-do-academics-drink-so-much Maybe it cuts down the mental cross-talk intelligent people are prone to?
7. Photo geolocation with convolutional neural networks: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05314
8. Several libraries for generating music with machine learning: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/using-machine-learning-to-generate-music 
9. Deep learning to recognise spoken Mandarin http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/02/getting-deep-speech-work-mandarin-baidu.html 
10. Similarities between deep learning and Markov chains http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/is-deep-learning-a-markov-chain-in-disguise 
11. Applying Deepmind AI to emergency room diagnosis https://thestack.com/world/2016/02/25/google-deepmind-applies-ai-to-healthcare-with-nhs-partnership/ 
12. An app using AI to identify dog breeds http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/02/what-dog-breed-ai-fetch.html 
13. Top 5 skills to become a machine learning expert http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/what-is-machine-learning-top-5-skills-required-to-become-a