Phased Long Short Term Memory is an improvement on the well known Long Short Term Memory units. Its main advantage is its ability to deal with data that do not follow a simple sequence and data with long timesteps.
Phased LSTM differs from LSTM by the possession of an additional gate called the time gate. The phased version is very efficient and performs better than basic LSTMs, even when given fewer data.
For the last few months, I’ve been working on my own machine learning model to predict what kind of coffee (hot or iced) I should drink on any given day, based on a variety of factors.
I’ve become very interested in machine learning over the past year, and so I wanted to build something to help me learn—so I built an app (or 2)!
Many organizations are leveraging machine learning to analyze large customer databases and identify customer loyalty; or, perhaps more importantly, which customers are at the highest risk of churning.
Accurate prediction of churn is extremely valuable and, if the right steps are taken to retain customers at risk, businesses can lift LTV across an entire portfolio.
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When developing in any programming language or framework, it’s usually a good idea to learn and follow established best practices. This is even more crucial in Flutter given the way widgets are built and re-built.
Following established best practices in Flutter is also particularly important for a couple of specific reasons: code readability and application performance.
In this post, we’ll cover some of the best practices in Flutter that can help on both of these fronts.
Whenever someone asks me to explain what mobile machine learning is, I instinctively bring up Snapchat as a core example.
In 2015, the incredibly popular social content platform added Lenses to their mobile app—if you’ve ever played with Snapchat, you know these well. They’re essentially augmented reality (AR) filters that give you big strange teeth, turn your face into an alpaca, or trigger digital brand-based experiences.
SwiftUI is defined as being declarative and reactive. The former is what allows us to write out our UI, which we can do in a very clean and organized fashion. The latter is what brings our UI and data closer together than ever.
We’ve been working on an app that allows us to view our team and dive into the profile pages of each member.
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In order for data science teams to outsource annotation to a managed workforce provider — also known as a Business Process Outsourcer (BPO) — they must first have the tools and infrastructure to store and manage their training data.
Data management tools and infrastructure should support R&D product management teams, outsourced labeling teams, and internal labeling and review teams, working together in a single centralized place with fully transparent oversight.
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ChAR Digital was founded Benjamin Paruzynski, an official Snapchat Lens Creator and Creative Partner. Working with brands to shape their digital marketing, Paruzynski and his team create lenses, filters, and effects.
Though he’s kept pretty busy between projects, I managed to catch up with the CEO to learn more about his digital journey.
Every day, our world is becoming more mobile, with more than 2 billion smartphones circulating globally. As such, mobile development has the potential to reach all corners and aspects of the modern world. This is equally true when it comes to machine learning.
Building machine learning models that we can use on mobile will open endless avenues for creativity, automation, and efficiency. But there’s a significant knowledge gap between mobile development and machine learning.
In this post, we are going to understand the underlying concepts of semantic image inpainting and various techniques developed for the same.
However, we are going to focus on an effective and elegant state-of-the-art context encoder and generative model based approach for image inpainting.
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