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How to Conformalize a Deep Image Classifier | by Patrick Altmeyer | Dec, 2022

Conformal Prediction in Julia — Part 2Conformal Predictions sets with varying degrees of uncertainty. Image by author.Deep Learning is popular and — for some tasks like image classification — remarkably powerful. But it is also well-known that Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be unstable (Goodfellow, Shlens, and Szegedy 2014) and poorly calibrated. Conformal Prediction can be used to mitigate these pitfalls.In the first part of this series of posts on Conformal Prediction, we looked at the basic underlying methodology and…

Rams-Chiefs preview: Bryce Perkins vs. Patrick Mahomes at QB

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —  There will be no easing into it.On Sunday, Rams quarterback Bryce Perkins is expected to make his first NFL start, and it will be against one of the best teams in the NFL, in one of the league’s loudest environments with a front-runner for most valuable player at quarterback for the opponent.Other than that, not much of a challenge for a player the Rams signed as an undrafted free agent in 2020.“You’re going to have a little of those kinds of heartbeats,” Perkins said of maintaining his composure…

Jonathan Frakes Teases a Lot of Riker in Picard Season 3

Screenshot: ParamountChris McQuarrie talks about naming the next Mission: Impossible. A Cosmology of Monsters is being turned into a show. James Gunn drops the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’s soundtrack. Plus, what’s coming on Doom Patrol season 4. Spoilers now!HumaneDeadline reports Caitlin Cronenberg (daughter of David and sister of Brandon) will make her directorial debut with Humane, an “environment-themed thriller” starring Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Peter Gallagher, Sebastian Chacon, Alanna Bale,and

Burger King owner hires former Domino’s CEO Patrick Doyle as chair

Patrick DoyleScott Mlyn | CNBCRestaurant Brands International announced Wednesday that it is hiring former Domino's Pizza CEO Patrick Doyle as its executive chair.Doyle, 59, was chief executive of Domino's from 2010 to 2018, and oversaw the pizza chain's transformation into a digital powerhouse in the restaurant industry. When he took the reins of the company, its shares were trading at under $12. By the time of his departure, the stock was trading at more at $270 per share.related investing newsHedge funds were busy…

How to Solve Every ML Problem with Low-Code | by Patrick Brus | Nov, 2022

An Introduction to the Python Library PyCaretPhoto by Arnold Francisca on UnsplashAccording to Fortune Business Insights , the global machine learning (ML) market size is expected to grow from 15 billion USD in 2021 to 209 billion USD in 2029. This means that the demand for data scientists is rising, while the supply of talents remains scarce.For this reason, a new role was introduced. The role of a citizen data scientist.The role of a citizen data scientist can be described as follows :According to Gartner, a citizen…

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: Vol 1 review, edited by Patrick McGuinness – tales with a certain ooh la la | Short stories

This collection opens with a bawdy anecdote and ends with Marcel Proust. The 43 stories spanning 400 years, starting in the 16th century (many newly translated by a variety of hands), include Charles Perrault’s classic version of Bluebeard, Voltaire’s pioneering science fiction, prose poems and dream narratives, supernatural chillers, a Jules Verne duel in a balloon and the first adventure of “gentleman-burglar” Arsène Lupin, subject of a recent hit Netflix series. Gustave Flaubert’s refined character study, A Simple…

Lavender Country: Patrick Haggerty’s transgressive queer music broke boundaries | Country

The last thing Patrick Haggerty expected was fame. In the early 2010s, the Washington native had put the pioneering gay country album he made as Lavender Country in the early 70s to the back of his mind and was contentedly performing covers of Doris Day and Que Sera Sera at local retirement homes. But after an anonymous YouTube user uploaded his groundbreaking music, a flurry of streams and blogs led to 1973’s Lavender Country being unleashed anew. A reissue from North Carolina label Paradise of Bachelors heralded a wave…

Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty, pioneering gay country musician, dies aged 78 | Music

Patrick Haggerty, the pioneering gay country musician who led Seattle band Lavender Country, has died aged 78. His social media channels report that the late singer and songwriter suffered a stroke earlier this year, leading to complications that caused his death.Paradise of Bachelors, the label that reissued Lavender Country’s self-titled debut album in 2014, confirmed the news on Twitter: “We are heartbroken to confirm that Patrick Haggerty, the visionary songwriter, dauntless activist, and irrepressible raconteur of…

NFL’s Patrick Peterson Roasts Kyler Murray With Video Game-Themed Celebration After Interception

NFL QB Kyler Murray of the Arizona Cardinals is known for his love of video games. So when he threw an interception during Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings, Patrick Peterson of the Vikings trolled the QB with a video game-themed celebration.Watch in the video below as Peterson pretends to play a video game by motioning like he was putting on a headset on and then moving his thumbs and fingers as if he's playing a video game. Peterson wasn't the player who picked off Murray on that play, but he…

Conformal Prediction in Julia. Part 1 — Introduction | by Patrick Altmeyer | Oct, 2022

Part 1 — IntroductionFigure 1: Prediction sets for two different samples and changing coverage rates. As coverage grows, so does the size of the prediction sets. Image by author.A first crucial step towards building trustworthy AI systems is to be transparent about predictive uncertainty. Model parameters are random variables and their values are estimated from noisy data. That inherent stochasticity feeds through to model predictions and should to be addressed, at the very least in order to avoid overconfidence in…