When Deepmind’s AlphaGo won 4 out of 5 matches against the then Go Champion Lee Se-dol, the entire world took notice. Heralded as a triumph for Artificial Intelligence, this moment was an important step towards making sophisticated AI powered machines a reality.
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AI vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning: What's the Difference?
By Byte on Aug 17, 2020 5:17:55 AM
Topics: Machine Learning AI Data Science
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K-Means Clustering: All You Need to Know
By Uday Keith on Aug 17, 2020 5:16:04 AM
In machine learning, we are often in the realm of “function approximation”. That is, we have a certain ground-truth (y) and associated variables (X) and our aim is to use identify a function to wrap our variables in that does a good job in approximating the ground-truth. This exercise in function approximation is also known as “supervised-learning”.
Topics: Machine Learning Python Data Science Programming Tips
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Data Scientist Interview: A Perspective On Artificial Intelligence
By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 5:15:26 AM
Recently HealthTech Women, a national non-profit, sat down with our Data Science instructor, Lesley Cordero to get an inside look at Artificial Intelligence, or, "AI" and how it is impacting society, particularly in healthcare and medicine. Lesley provides her perspective in this interview in addition to a more general understanding of AI and related concepts such as machine learning, natural language processing and big data.
Topics: Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Big Data healthtech AI Data Science medtech
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A Beginner's Guide to Deep Learning
By Byte on Aug 17, 2020 5:15:02 AM
As long as there has been Science Fiction, the idea that machines are smarter than humans has always captivated our collective imagination. But while Artificial Intelligence (AI) has not reached that level yet, we have made considerable advances towards developing machine intelligence, as evidenced by Google, Tesla, and Uber experimenting with self-driven cars. The reason why AI has successfully burst out of universities and research labs into product is largely due to the scalability and usefulness of Deep Learning, the Machine Learning technique making this technological progress possible.
Topics: Deep Learning Machine Learning AI Data Science
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Why is learning to code so hard?
By Jeff Maxim on Aug 17, 2020 5:13:32 AM
Our instructor Jeff is also an author, here are some tips from his blog, a great coding resource:
As an instructor at Byte Academy, a high school AP computer science teacher, and a former middle school teacher, I’ve worked with countless beginning computer programmers. I’ve been there for everyone - from 10-year-old kids to adult career changers - while they write their first “Hello, World!” programs in languages like Python, JavaScript, C, PHP, Ruby, and even with MIT’s cool Scratch.
tl;dr
- Learning to code is no more difficult than learning anything else because all skills have a similarly high mastery point.
- Learning to code seems harder than learning other stuff because it has a higher barrier to entry.
- There’s proven strategies you can use to make this barrier to entry less intimidating.
Topics: Student Stories programming Programming Tips
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Blockchain - used for medicine, theme parks and ticketing?
By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 5:12:58 AM
*Exclusive interview from Peter Shiau, CEO and CoFounder of Blockstack.io
Topics: Bitcoin Blockchain tech industry
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Blockchain Backtrack: Spread of Cryptocurrency
By Byte on Aug 17, 2020 5:12:29 AM
The advent of cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin, has seen widespread and rapid use to the point where high-profile companies are beginning to take an interest by allowing electronic currency to be used for their transactions.
Blockchain, which was developed alongside Bitcoin, revolutionized this field by acting as a sort of ledger that records every transaction and storing this information on a global network, preventing the tampering of digital currency and building security and trust between Blockchain and its users, making it an increasingly popular method of electronic payment. Below learn more from news excerpts. For more blockchain education, check out Byte Academy's course.
Topics: FinTech news Blockchain
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Coding Exercise: Build Tetris in Python using Pygame
By Sanoj Mathew on Aug 17, 2020 5:12:00 AM
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pygame is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library. Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. Like SDL, pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system. Millions of people have downloaded pygame itself, which is a whole lot of bits flying across the interwebs.
Topics: coding exercises Python Programming Tips
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Coding for Financial Independence
By Karina on Aug 17, 2020 5:10:59 AM
Millennials (and Generation Z), put down your iPhones and let us inspire you to code for financial independence..
| 1 in 4 young adults between the ages of 21 – 34 are dependent on their parents in some form, whether it may be rent, car insurance, etc. Having grown children dependent on their funds detracts them from saving for retirement, adding stress to their lives, according to an article on CNBC. |
Coding = Financial Independence.... Need Convincing?
Topics: financial independence Careers millennial Programming Tips bootcamp
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Women Coders in Tech? (Kick More Ass With Scholarships)
By Emily on Aug 17, 2020 5:10:01 AM
In the 1940's more than half of programmers were women, yet, that proportion hovers around 25% today, with many studies finding that the actual percentage of women is closer to 10% - 20%. When big tech companies revealed how few of their female employees worked in programming jobs in 2014, Google had some of the highest rates - 17% of technical roles were occupied by women.
