what's happening in the technology world
Microsoft announced it has acquired Semantic Machines, a conversational AI startup providing chatbots and AI chat apps founded in 2014 having $20.9 million in funding from investors. The acquisition will … Read More
Amber Solutions, an IoT product company that sells smart outlets, switches and circuit breakers closed Series A Preferred Stock round of financing that equals $3.3M in gross proceeds. Amber will … Read More
Vesper, the maker of piezoelectric sensors used in microphone production and winner of CES Innovation Award 2018 raised a $23M Series B round. American Family Ventures led the investment with … Read More
Owlet, a connected-baby care company raised a $24 million Series B investment from Trilogy Equity Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Eclipse Ventures, Broadway Angels, and Enfield Ventures, and … Read More
Wind River, an IoT and industrial operating system owned by Intel will be acquired by TPG, global alternative asset firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Intel had bought … Read More
IFTTT (If This Than That), a web-based software that automates and connects over 600 online services/software raised a $24M Series C led by Salesforce. Other investors include IBM and the … Read More
In two of my previous blog posts, I explained how the black box of a random forest can be opened up by tracking decision paths along the trees and computing … Read More
The need for anomaly and change detection will pop up in almost any data driven system or quality monitoring application. Typically, there are set of metrics that need to be … Read More
Like with any sport, the question of who are the best competitors of all time in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is something that is hotly debated among MMA fans. And … Read More
Today, we had the first event of the Estonian Machine Learning Meetup series. I was quite baffled by the pretty massive turnout, with more than a hundred people attending, indicating … Read More
There is huge number of machine learning methods, statistical tools and data mining techniques available for a given data related task, from self organizing maps to Q-learning, from streaming graph … Read More
In one of my previous posts I discussed how random forests can be turned into a “white box”, such that each prediction is decomposed into a sum of contributions from … Read More
An aspect that is important but often overlooked in applied machine learning is intervals for predictions, be it confidence or prediction intervals. For classification tasks, beginning practitioners quite often conflate … Read More
Hacker News is a popular social news website, mostly covering technology and startup topics. It relies on user submissions and moderation, where each submitted story can be upvoted and commented … Read More
In my previous posts, I looked at univariate methods,linear models and regularization and random forests for feature selection. In this post, I’ll look at two other methods: stability selection and … Read More
