Category Archives: artificial intelligence

“Applications of Deep Learning to ocean data inference and subgrid parameterization”

Posted on 5 February 2019 by ecoquant

This is another nail in the coffin of the claim I heard at last year’s Lorenz-Charney Symposium at MIT that machine learning methods would not make a serious contribution to advancements in the geophysical sciences. T. Bolton, L. Zanna, “Applications … Continue reading →

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These are ethical “AI Principles” from Google, but they might as well be `technological principles’

Posted on 28 June 2018 by ecoquant

This is entirely adapted from this link, courtesy of Google and Alphabet. Objectives Be socially beneficial. Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias. Be built and tested for safety. Be accountable to people. Incorporate privacy design principles. Uphold high standards of … Continue reading →

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“Hadoop is NOT ‘Big Data’ is NOT Analytics”

Posted on 8 April 2017 by ecoquant

Arun Krishnan, CEO & Founder at  Analytical Sciences comments on this serious problem with the field. Short excerpt: … A person who is able to write code using Hadoop and the associated frameworks is not necessarily someone who can understand … Continue reading →

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Google’s DeepMind consistently beats Fan Hui, the European GO grandmaster

Posted on 27 January 2016 by ecoquant

This is pretty amazing news. DeepMind’s program AlphaGo beat Fan Hui, the European Go champion, five times out of five in tournament conditions, the firm reveals in research published in Nature on 27 January. It also defeated its silicon-based rivals, … Continue reading →

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Professor Marvin Minsky dies at 88: What a noble mind is here o’erthrown

Posted on 26 January 2016 by ecoquant

As a prospective and actual graduate student in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory during the years 1974-1976, it is difficult to convey the draw and the incisiveness of Minsky’s mind. As an undergraduate in Physics with a very keen interest in … Continue reading →

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