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slavin: “ (via Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition) “We present a model that generates free-form natural language descriptions of image regions. Our model leverages datasets of images and their sentence...
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(via Stanford University CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition)

"We present a model that generates free-form natural language descriptions of image regions. Our model leverages datasets of images and their sentence descriptions to learn about the inter-modal correspondences between text and visual data."

This is happening.

Source: cs.stanford.edu artificial intelligence AI dogs pug dogs watch dogs
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We have a toxic relationship with failure. From an early age, we are taught in school that mistakes are bad. Mistakes on papers and tests are marked with a red pen and points are taken off. As a result, school teaches us to avoid mistakes rather than to make mistakes and then learn from them.

Failures are actually brilliant opportunities to learn. It is often easier to diagnose what went wrong after a failure than to figure out the key elements that lead to a success. By avoiding failure, then, we are removing an important tool from our mental toolbox.

What Steve Jobs can teach us about coping with failure (via fastcompany)
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Every American should know basic math. Every American should understand the logical underpinnings to coding, the way conditional clauses work and the cyclical way in which systems are constructed. Americans should know that the way a website works isn’t the way a video game works which isn’t the way a bank’s database works, but they don’t need to learn to “code” all of those things. Just as every American doesn’t need to get certified as a mechanic, but should know how to change a tire, every American should know how computer systems work in the abstract but doesn’t need to code.

No, Mr. President, Not Everyone Needs to Learn How to Code  (via courtenaybird)

Wrong. Absolutely completely wrong and written by someone that does not understand that what we are taught in schools in actually an artifact of the early 50’s and utterly divorced from today’s needs, not to mention the needs of the future.

Not everyone will be a programmer.  Not everyone will find their passions writing code and building software.  That much is understood and perfectly fine.  But to be computer illiterate in the 21st century will be as much of an economic and life hardship as being unable to read was in the 20th century.  That means everyone should have the basics of how computers work and you cannot really understand that without understanding the language of machines and the logic structures used to make software perform work.  That means writing code.

What you should take away from the above quote and articles of such nature?  They are written not by technologists, but by political writers and others that have their heads in the sand.  Beware of these people and stay away, because they are relics of the past desperately grasping for relevancy as history moves forward without them.  At least others are not bamboozled by such rhetoric and are changing the tide helping to prepare students for the new realities of the 21st century.

Source: thewire.com tech computer science education coding programming learning America
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Stanford University professor Jeffrey Pfeffer published a paper, “Fighting the War for Talent Is Hazardous to Your Organization’s Health,” in which he made the point that the war overvalued individuals at the expense of the team with disastrous organizational results. Companies that engaged in it, he argued, “set up competitive, zero-sum dynamics that make internal learning and knowledge transfer difficult … and create an attitude of arrogance instead of an attitude of wisdom.”

“McKinsey’s Dirty War: Bogus ‘War for Talent’ Was Self-Serving (and Failed)” via The New York Observer

The phrase “War for talent” is one of the most loathsome corporate slogans ever conjured in recent history.  I deem it the “anti-culture” for the destructive influence it has on organizations.

Source: observer.com talent managment war for talent HR recruiting culture business human capital corporate performance
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So investors, looking for a near-term large and growing market, see technology development as a big red flag. They defer to others, like government agencies, universities, and large corporations to take that risk. You can participate, of course, with private funds and grants, but don’t expect venture money to be thrown your way just yet. Get used to the message, “We love your proposal, so come back when you have a real product and a real customer!”

“Investors Do Not Fund Research and Development” via AlleyWatch

I must get pitched on a weekly basis with someone looking for funding based solely on an idea.  In the 90’s, investors were willing to take a flyer on a napkin sketch and entrepreneurial enthusiasm because the bar to get started was so high.  That bar is way lower today while the bar by which investors evaluate startups has risen considerably.  The lesson is have a product and have users or forget about raising outside capital from investors.  The good news for the ideas folks is that there are plenty of other channels for funding something such as crowdfunding.  Just do not expect VC’s or angel investors to get excited on nothing more than an “idea”.

Source: alleywatch.com fund raising R&D VC venture capital startups investors crowdfunding