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Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

We are in the process of writing a book on Mathematics for Machine Learning that motivates people to learn mathematical concepts. The book is not intended to cover advanced machine learning techniques because there are already plenty of books doing this. Instead, we aim to provide the necessary mathematical skills to read those other books.

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MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading

MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading

A startup called Nectome collected $200,000 from people hoping to become digitally immortal through suicide.

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What’s the Deal with Transparent Aluminum?

What’s the Deal with Transparent Aluminum?

We got onto the buzz about “transparent aluminum” as a result of a Tweetfrom whence the image above came. This Tweet was posted by [Jo Pitesky], a Science Systems Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. [Jo] reported that at a recent JPL technology open house she had the chance to handle a tube of material that looks for all the world like a section of glass tubing, but was billed as transparent aluminum.

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Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot

Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot

Humans aren’t great at picking up their trash, a fact that is reinforced by the Great Pacific garbage patch and other massive dumps and landfills around the world. As it turns out, we are also taking our talent at producing rubbish into orbit with us. Since the advent of spaceflight in the 1950s, outer space has become congested with about 500,000 bits of spacecraft debris measuring larger than a marble, and 20,000 chunks larger than a softball, according to NASA.

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Microsoft AI Interview Questions – Acing the AI Interview

Microsoft AI Interview Questions – Acing the AI Interview

In a recent letter by the CEO Satya Nadella to all Microsoft employees, there are two new teams formed in Microsoft, Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge to shape the next phase of innovation. This announces the profound shift to weave Artificial Intelligence in to all that Microsoft does. Needless to say Microsoft following this announcement may increase the AI related hires to the company.

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One of Estonia’s first “e-residents” explains what it means

One of Estonia’s first “e-residents” explains what it means

In 2014, Estonia, a country previously known as much for its national singing revolution as anything else, became the first country in the world to launch an e-Residency program. Once admitted, e-Residents can conduct business worldwide as if they were from Estonia, which is a member of the EU. They are given government-issued digital IDs, can open Estonian bank and securities accounts, form and register Estonian companies, and have a front-row seat as nascent concepts of digital and virtual citizenship evolve.

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