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The ICML 2019 Conference will be held from June 10-15 in Long Beach, CA — about a month earlier than last year. To encourage reproducibility as well as high quality submissions, this year we have three major changes in place.

Mark White writes:

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are introducing Custom Terminology, a feature that customers can use to customize Amazon Translate output to use company- and domain-specific vocabulary. By uploading and invoking Custom Terminology with translation requests, customers have the ability to ensure that their unique content, such as brand names, character names, and model names, is translated exactly the way they need it, regardless of context and the Amazon Translate algorithm’s decision.

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Analysing Accelerometer Data Using Hidden Markov Models (HMMpa)Analysing time-series accelerometer data to quantify length and intensity of physical activity using hidden Markov models. It also contains the traditi …

Over the past few years, the phenomenon of clickbait has grown from nothing into a ubiquitous part of the that content we consume. From YouTube videos to news stories, we’ve all gotten familiar with headlines that don’t tell us much about the actual content, but instead promise us an emotional reaction or offer us a list of things we really don’t need to know.

Recalling Le Monde mathematical puzzle  first competition problem

Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain areas. While intended as a joke and a parody of past “favorite” maps, some people took it too seriously — like Senator Ted Cruz. Brettschneider describes the lessons he learned: