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In the explosion of interest for deep learning, conventional statistical methods that have been in use for much longer seem to attract very little interest. Comically, the word “statistics” is almost at the opposite end of the excitement spectrum, evoking memories of dull college classes rather than exhilarating tech projects and silicon valley success. How […]

Machine learning methods are continuing to gather momentum, with the IDC estimating that spending on AI and cognitive systems are reaching $77.6B USD. Although such figures are clearly approximate at best, the figure still gives an idea of the scale of this market. Even if the theoretical results of machine learning have been known for a […]

Artificial intelligence is one of the hot topics of the day. Each day there are new applications that appear, often in the area of predictive modeling. In the case of this wildfire classifier model, the headline could be interpreted much more generously than the actual results warrant. The model correctly predicted the occurrence of a […]