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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 20 posts.
An Efficient Way to Extract the Main Topics from a Sentence
Last week, while working on new features for our product, I had to find a quick and efficient way to extract the main topics/objects from a sentence. Since I’m using Python, I initially thoug…
Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and illustrations
I began with inanimate objects living in a world of forces, and I gave them desires, autonomy, and the ability to take action according to a system of
Deep Learning 101
Deep learning has become something of a buzzword in recent years with the explosion of 'big data', 'data science', and their derivatives mentioned in the media. Justifiably, deep learning approaches have recently blown other state-of-the-art machine learning methods out of the water for standardized problems such as…
Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python
A friend introduced me to the game 24 , a simple game you can play with a deck of playing cards. Over the course of playing the game, I realized that either my friend was really good at this game, or that I wasn't!
Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 1
This is the first part of a three part introductory tutorial on artificial neural networks. In this first tutorial we will discover what neural networks are, why they're useful for solving certain types of tasks and finally how they work.
Our Most Important Technology Project Yet
Wolfram's many advances, including the Wolfram Language, are coming together to create a new and profoundly important unified level of computation.
Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn)
As you hopefully have heard, we at scikit-learn are doing a user survey (which is still open by the way). One of the requests there was t...
Unlabeled Object Recognition in Google+
Google+ released an amazing feature that uses object recognition to tag photos. Here is a Reddit thread discussing it. Generalized object r...
Bank of America Bot Cares About You
I’ll let the horror of automation speak for itself. Not that you need further reassurance that there are no “souls” aboard this ship. WARNING: Some naughty language (this is compl…
A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
I wrote a book. Well, only in part. Willi Richert and I wrote a book. It is called Building Machine Learning Systems With Python and is now available from Amazon (or Amazon.co.uk), although it has …
How to build an Anti Aircraft Missile: Bayes’ Theorem and the Kalman Filter
Ever wondered how an Anti Aircraft Missile works? A plane can move at different speeds and altitudes, so how do you know when to fire your missile? Well you need to know two things: where the aircr…
Computational Synesthesia: Audio Analysis with Image Processing Algorithms
The blog post was written in an IPython Notebook. You can download the notebook here .
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
The Mortal Passage Trilogy: An Epic in Four Stories is now available. That link leads to Amazon, but you can find it on iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and elsewhere too.