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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,242 posts.
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Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime
This blog was written by Jelena Mojasevic, Program Manager at Microsoft. We are pleased to announce that Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime has been released as a NuGet package. The library empowers you to easily add text recognition capabilities in your Windows Phone 8/8.1 and Windows 8.1 Store apps. OCR…
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Building a deeper understanding of images
Posted by Christian Szegedy, Software EngineerThe ImageNet large-scale visual recognition challenge (ILSVRC) is the largest academic challenge in c...
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Extracting audio from visual information
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
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Turing Test Success
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Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations
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The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving
Over the last year we’ve shifted the focus of the Google self-driving car project onto mastering city street driving.
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Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood cof...
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PredictionIO – open source machine learning for predictive features
PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Building a production-grade engine to predict users’ preferences ...
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Ccv open sources near state-of-the-art image classifier under Creative Commons
In previous posts, I mentioned that the even numbered release will be bugfixes. However, 0.6 is a bit different.
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The main trick in machine learning
I have been irritated that many recent introductions to machine learning/neural networks/whatever that fail to emphasise the most import trick in machine learning. Many internet resources don’t mention it, and even good textbooks often don’t drill it in to the reader the absolute criticality to success the trick is…
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Machine learning is easier than it looks
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
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Wolfram Alpha’s New Data about Pokémon
It's not all math & science at Wolfram. Today's pop topic: Pokémon! Catch their abilities, stats, icons, curves, creators, games, movies—even X & Y.
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Machine Learning and Link Spam: My Brush With Insanity
Using machine learning to combat dirty link profiles can save hours of time and countless dollars spent on hand-checking web pages. In today's post, Ian Lurie walks us through a tale of successfully implementing machine learning, one step at a time.
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Announcing Sift Science: fight fraud with large-scale machine learning
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Thousands of Public Data Sources
We love data, big and small and we are always on the lookout for interesting datasets. Over the last two years, the BigML team has compiled a long list of sources of data that anyone can use. It…
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Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
After years of hard work, the Simon team is proud to announce the new major release: Simon 0.4.0. New in Simon 0.4 This new version of ...