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Incorporate Domain Knowledge into Your Model with Rule-Based LearningYou are given a labeled dataset and assigned to predict a new one. What would you do?The first approach that you probably try is to train a machine learning model to find rules for labeling new data.Image by AuthorThis is convenient, but it is challenging to know why the machine learning model comes up with a particular prediction. You also can’t incorporate your domain knowledge into the model.Instead of depending on a machine learning model to make…

Wildlife overpasses are doing one job well. They stop animals from wandering onto busy highways — saving both people and animals from the carnage of high-speed collisions. But these structures aren't all built to the same standards.A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia got to work locating, measuring and then evaluating a number of these overpasses to see how different dimensions impact how effective an overpass is at encouraging wildlife to cross. "If reducing collisions was the only goal, we could…

A Step-by-Step Guide to training a Word2vec ModelPhoto by Brett Jordan on UnsplashAn important component of natural language processing (NLP) is the ability to translate words, phrases, or larger bodies of text into continuous numerical vectors. There are many techniques for accomplishing this task, but in this post we will focus in on a technique published in 2013 called word2vec.Word2vec is an algorithm published by Mikolov et al. in a paper titled Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space. This paper…

The image of the largest rock in our solar system captured by Voyager 1 is the NASA Image of the Day. What is the name of this rock? Know here. NASA lets you discover something new in the cosmos every day! The space agency drops a new image of some part of our fascinating universe along with a brief explanation by an astronomer. Today, on the first day of the New Year, 2023, NASA has shared the image of the largest rock in our solar system. Have you seen that small dot on the right side of the light's streak? Yes, that…

Smartphone brand Xiaomi is set to launch the Redmi Note 12 series in India. Ahead of the launch, the company has announced an entry-level phone in the home country. It has launched the Redmi 12C in…

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, and it’s been the standard connection type for computers and most tech devices since 1998, when Apple took the brave decision to use it on its revolutionary original iMac. Before USB, there were multiple connections types, from ADB to FireWire and SCSI, all with their own variations. As with most tech standards, USB has been getting faster ever since with new versions coming out every few years and leaping forward in speed and functionality. Despite being “Universal”,…

Google, an American technology company, has launched the new Material You design for the Nearby Share app on the…

Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time.Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay — home to Churchill, Man., known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World" — by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed."The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected,"…

We did it! Despite humanity’s best efforts, we made it through 2022. Before we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and brace for whatever 2023 has to offer, we should probably take some time to reflect on the year that was. Here at Neural, that means recounting our favorite stories from the past 12 months. There was a lot of mind-blowing news in the world of tech in 2022. From Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter to former Google engineer Blake Lemoine declaring that he’d met a sentient AI, it…

A parade of cargo-friendly and affordable electric cars are coming next year, though it will still be tough to buy one. In the evolution of the electric vehicle, 2022 will be remembered for its megafauna: Massive electric trucks finally roamed the land, with equally outsized prices. Next year, however, should bring some subspecies — a diaspora of SUVs, including some slightly smaller options and, rarer still, a precious few with more modest window stickers. If you are in the market for a car, here are four…