Reinforcement learning refers to goal-oriented algorithms, which learn how to attain a complex objective (goal) or maximize along a particular dimension over many steps.

Bayes Theorem provides a principled way for calculating a conditional probability. It is a deceptively simple calculation, although it can be used to easily calculate the conditional probability of events where intuition often fails. Bayes Theorem also provides a way for thinking about the evaluation and selection of different models for a given dataset in …

Finally, after many people have asked for it: here is part two of the mutt-series: this time we talk about actually using and configuring mutt, and some other smaller tools needed for a nice email-workflow.

The link to part one is reported in the beginning of the article.

GitHub announces the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.

Publishing a paper in academia is challenging, stimulating, and a bit baffling. Challenging because the research might fail. Stimulating because research may start assuming one outcome and finish with a totally different one. Baffling because after the paper is written and ready, I have to find it a home for

A new release from OpenAI shows how complex behavior emerges.

This week, leading AI lab OpenAI released their latest project: an AI that can play hide-and-seek. It’s the latest example of how, with current machine learning techniques, a very simple setup can produce shockingly sophisticated results.

A set of useful links ti time series labeling tools.

BLUF is a military communications acronym - it stands for “bottom line up front” - that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.

Can you spot a fake conference? It seems many researchers can’t. So here are 9 ways to spot a fake.

Summary

1. The conference has an overly ambitious title
2. The technical programme is broad. Very broad!
3. The language on the conference website is… off
4. Renowned organisations are sponsoring a low-profile conference
5. The organisers’ contact details are missing, or aren’t quite right
6. Another conference with a suspiciously similar name already exists
7. The conference or its organisers have known associates
8. The organisers are charging higher-than-normal fees
9. The conference is unusually frequent

Pngquant is a free, open source and cross-platform command-line lossy PNG compressor. It is based on a portable libimagequant library and is written in C99. It reduces the file size significantly by converting the PNG image to more efficient 8-bit PNG format and preserves full alpha transparency. As you may already know, 8-bit PNG files are often 60-80% smaller than 24/32-bit PNG files. The images compressed using Pngquant are fully-compatible with all web browsers and operating systems. Pngquant can compress one or multiple images at once.

At Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) 2019, Josh Triplett, a Principal Engineer at Intel gave an insight into what Intel is contributing to bring the most loved language, Rust to full parity with C.

Clever tricks work around major hurdles, but it's not a route to high performance.

Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism