Microsoft R Open 3.2.5 is now available. While there are no substantial changes to core R, the CRAN snapshot includes some new packages, such as deeplearning---a deep neural network implementation for regression and classification. … [Read more...]
Parsey McParseface
Personally I think that the UK's National Environment Research Council (NERC) missed a trick in ignoring the results of their own public poll when naming their new polar research vessel. The poll results where overwhelmingly in favour of naming the vessel RRS Boaty McBoatface. Unfortunately, ministers went for the much safer fourth-placed option of naming it after beloved nature broadcaster Sir … [Read more...]
World’s largest ad agency appoints robot as creative director
McCann, the world's largest ad agency, has appointed a robot as creative director in its Japanese office. AI-CD β, as the new hire is called, is fed with data on award-winning commercials and comes up with ideas based on a "brief". Not content with having AI-CD β be merely a piece of software, McCann have created a robot with an arm that writes out its suggestions in Japanese … [Read more...]
Microsoft R Server is now on the Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine
The Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) now comes pre-configured with Microsoft R Server Developer Edition. As you can scale the DSVM according to your needs, this is an easy way to get going with some heavy duty R computations. … [Read more...]
Google’s self-driving car causes crash
The New Scientist reports that one of Google's autonomous cars drove into a bus on 14 February 2016. Apparently Google's cars have been involved in 18 accidents in Mountain View since it started testing in 2010. All have been other vehicles striking a stationary or slow moving Google car. However, in the latest incident the AI decided to pull out into the path of the slow-moving bus---i.e. the AI … [Read more...]