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Harold Cohen and Aaron – A 40-Year Collaboration (2016)

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Harold Cohen was a pioneer in computer art, in algorithmic art, and in generative art; but as he told me one afternoon in 2010, he was first and foremost a painter. He was also an engineer whose work defined the first generation of computer-generated art.

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Egger Mielberg: Not all neural networks that are now being positioned as artificial intelligence are actually so

Dataconomy

Let’s start with the fact that back in 2010 I decided to develop a search engine comparable to Google. This approach was fundamentally different from that of typical search engines, whose algorithms look for simple matches of words and phrases. In what area of medicine do you intend to use this algorithm?

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Pain points: Seattle-area dental diagnostics company gets FDA approval for tooth-tapping tech

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It was acquired by Philips in 2010. The company’s algorithms will improve over time as it gains market share and rolls out more broadly, Hayman told GeekWire. InnerView, a handheld device, collects data and sends it to Perimetrics’ machine learning platform to help dentists diagnose patients.

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Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation

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Backpropagation is the key algorithm that makes training deep models computationally tractable. In fact, the algorithm has been reinvented at least dozens of times in different fields (see Griewank (2010) ). That’s the difference between a model taking a week to train and taking 200,000 years.

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Engineering the First Fitbit: The Inside Story

Hacker News

The algorithms that determine Fitbit’s count Part of Fitbit’s challenge of getting from prototype to shippable product was software development. Instead, the device’s algorithms needed to determine what a step was and what was a different kind of motion—say, someone scratching their nose. Road noise was another big issue.

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Revealing the Secrets of Startup Success: A Venture Capital Investments Challenge

Ocean Protocol

His analysis also noted an increasing trend in funding amounts over time, with the average funding per round growing by 15% annually since 2010, reflecting the escalating scale and stakes within the venture capital ecosystem. This trend highlights Stanford’s strong network and reputation within the venture capital ecosystem.

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Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare

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After co-founder and CEO Munjal Shah sold his previous company, Like.com, a shopping comparison site, to Google in 2010, he spent the better part of the next decade building Hippocratic. ” AI in healthcare, historically, has been met with mixed success.

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