Weekly Review 28 November 2016

Below are some of the interesting links I Tweeted about in the last week.

1. Not to be too glib, but this is what being a post-doc is like: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11752215
2. Pictorial description of backpropagation ANN training: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/neural-networks-the-backpropagation-algorithm-in-a-picture 
3. Implementing Human ActivityRecognition in TensorFlow: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/11/implementing-cnn-human-activity-recognition-tensorflow.html
4. Combining text analytics and machine learning: https://www.datanami.com/2016/11/21/text-analytics-machine-learning-virtuous-combination/ 
5. Top 20 open source Python machine learning projects: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/11/top-20-python-machine-learning-open-source-updated.html 
6. Questions to ask when moving machine learning systems into production: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/11/moving-machine-learning-practice-production.html 
7. Choosing a programming language for machine learning applications: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/python-machine-learning-and-language-wars-a-highly-subjective-poi 
8. Baidu is releasing Chinese-language speech recognition APIs: https://www.datanami.com/2016/11/23/baidu-ups-ai-ante-deep-learning-release/ 
9. Google's deep-learning based translation system seems to have learned its own internal language model: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-tool-seems-to-have-invented-its-own-secret-internal-language/ 
10. Tech leaders need to be aware of biased models: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/algorithms-can-be-racist-why-cxos-should-understand-the-assumptions-behind-predictive-analytics/ 
11. A deep-learning based system learned to lipread by watching television, performs better than a human: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/24/13740798/google-deepmind-ai-lip-reading-tv 
12. AI is making inroads into the music industry: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/24/big_music_goes_mad_for_chat_bots_and_ai/ 
13. An introduction (with Python code) to linear regression: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/11/linear-regression-least-squares-matrix-multiplication-concise-technical-overview.html 
14. How Google uses cloud-based machine learning to help companies fill job vacancies: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-googles-new-cloud-jobs-api-uses-machine-learning-to-help-companies-fill-jobs/ 
15. Why neural networks won't take over from human translators: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_au/read/shitloads-and-zingers-the-perils-of-machine-translation