The recent announcement of TensorFlow 2.0 names eager execution as the number one central feature of the new major version. What does this mean for R users? As…
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Similar scams are, perhaps unsurprisingly, incredibly prevalent within China right now, and in the days since my messages with Jin, I’ve talked with several Chinese people who have…
Today marks the launch of registration and content availability for the fourth annual Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior (ICJ) global student competition. ICJ is an exciting opportunity for students…
There are good reasons to get into deep learning: Deep learning has been outperforming the respective “classical” techniques in areas like image recognition and natural language processing for…
A new academic program developed at MIT aims to teach U.S. Air and Space Forces personnel to understand and utilize artificial intelligence technologies. In a recent peer-reviewed study,…
What’s your first association when you read the word embeddings? For most of us, the answer will probably be word embeddings, or word vectors. A quick search for…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for quantum computing For…
Last January at rstudio::conf, in that distant past when conferences still used to take place at some physical location, my colleague Daniel gave a talk introducing new features…
Over the past few decades, very few new antibiotics have been developed, largely because current methods for screening potential drugs are prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. One promising new…
We are thrilled to announce sparklyr 1.5 is now available on CRAN! To install sparklyr 1.5 from CRAN, run In this blog post, we will highlight the following…