“Everyone is always warning you not to get lost in the weeds. But not Vox’s Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff, and Matthew Yglesias. They love the weeds. That’s where all the policy is. This is the podcast for people who follow politics because they love thinking about health care, economics, and zoning.”
“Back in 2013, a handful of researchers at Google set loose a neural network on a corpus of three million words taken from Google News texts. The neural net’s goal was to look for patterns in the way words appear next to each other.”
Read: Neural networks are inadvertently learning our language’s hidden gender biases
“Todd W. Schneider, a developer at Genius, took a deep dive into Simpsons data using scripts pulled from Simpsons World. From there, he wrote code that organizes dialogue by character and then ranks each character by number of words spoken.”
“According to the WCAG, the contrast ratio between text and the text’s background should be at least 4.5 to 1.”
“100 years of Pulitzer data reveal wholly insufficient progress on dimensions of diversity and inclusivity”
“DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it’s not even the main one.”
Read: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future
“Just over a year after Michael Brown’s death became a focal point for a national debate about policing and race, Ferguson and nearby St. Louis suburbs have returned to what looks, from the outside, like a kind of normalcy.”
Read: In the aftermath of Ferguson, St. Louis cops embrace crime-predicting software
“Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward building an AI with more humanlike intuition, developing a computer capable of beating even expert human players at the fiendishly complicated board game Go.”
Read: A Google DeepMind Algorithm Uses Deep Learning and More to Master the Game of Go
“Microsoft’s brain is now available for anyone to use in their apps. The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications.”
Read: Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
“Google wants to teach you deep learning — if you’re ready that is. The tech giant has launched a free course explaining the machine learning technique that underpins so many of its services.”
Read: Google just published a free, three-month course on deep learning