At: U. of Zurich Location: Zurich, SwitzerlandWeb: www.ifi.uzh.ch/en.html

Convolutional Neural Net in Tensorflow

rOpenSci’s software engineer / postdoc Jeroen Ooms will explain what images are, under the hood, and showcase several rOpenSci packages that form a modern toolkit for working with images in R, including opencv, av, tesseract, magick and pdftools.

Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning: A Constrained Optimization Viewpoint

By Alvira Swalin, University of San Francisco

AI. Machine Learning. Big Data. Augmented Analytics. The Cloud.

Data scientist churn is a big problem, and it’s not getting resolved through cushy perks and office snacks. Often the role can be repetitive and frustrating, and since data scientists are so in-demand, they can shuffle off to an organization that promises to be better. But Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already starting to help defeat boredom.

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Mixture Models with Component-Wise Factor Analyzers (EMMIXmfa)We provide functions to fit finite mixtures of multivariate normal or t-distributions to data with various factor analytic structures adopted for the c …