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3D data representation, vision tasks and learning resourcesWritten by Margaret Maynard-Reid (ML GDE) and Nived PA3D deep learning is an interesting area with a wide range of real-world applications: art and design, self-driving cars, sports, agriculture, biology, robotics, virtual reality and augmented reality. This blog post provides an introduction to 3D deep learning: 3D data representations, computer vision tasks and learning resources.Image by author (Margaret)Data is super important for training machine learning…

Latinos are the second largest demographic population in the United States, but they are vastly underrepresented on corporate boards, according to a new report by the Latino Corporate Directors Association."Sixty-five percent of Fortune 1000 companies lack Latinos, and Latinos are seeing the least growth of any other group," Esther Aguilera, CEO of LCDA, told CNBC at this week's L'Attitude Conference.It's even worse for women. According to the report, Latinas are have just 1% of board seats on Fortune 500 companies…

Legendary music producer Emilio Estefan weighed in with his take on how to boost Latino representation in showbiz. Latinos, he said, should be true to their identities."I feel proud that I didn't have to change my last name I didn't have to change my sound because people liked it," he said. "We bring something a little bit different and that's what makes America."The Cuban-American Estefan, who is married to superstar singer Gloria Estefan, has endured one of the relatively few key figures in American show business. He's…

Get better results on scarce medical image datasets with a novel transfer learning technique to pretrain deep learning modelPhoto by Jonathan Borba on UnsplashOne of the primary problems with applying machine learning and deep learning models to medical imaging tasks is the scarcity of sufficient data to train the model. Manual generation and labelling of medical images are costly and time taking as highly trained experts are needed to understand and label the medical images correctly. To counter the problem of scarce…

In my experience as a writer and as a History teacher, I’ve found that people as a whole seek comfort in tightly-packaged identities. We tend to prefer handy snippets of generalized information that helps us identify or understand something or someone. It’s kind of like coming up with a simple mathematical formula. Apple pie plus Fourth of July fireworks equals American. Baguettes plus the Eiffel Tower equals French. Tamales and flan plus family gatherings equals Hispanic. And thus, stereotypes are born. The recent…

Process Your Text in One Line of Python CodImage by Author Created Using MidjourneyBefore using text for an ML model or for visualization, you might want to clean your text by:replacing NA values with empty spaceslowercasing all textremoving digitsremoving punctuationremoving stopwordsremoving whitespaceIt can take a while for you to write all of the steps above to process your text. This makes it slower for you to analyze your data and train an ML model.Wouldn’t it be nice if you can process your text in one line of code…

Hyperparameter tuning in autoencodersPhoto by Clark Van Der Beken on UnsplashYou may already know that autoencoder latent representation includes the most important features of the input data when its dimension is significantly lower than the dimension of the input data.The quality of the autoencoder latent representation depends on so many factors such as number of hidden layers, number of nodes in each layer, dimension of the latent vector, type of activation function in hidden layers, type of optimizer, learning rate,…

For a long time, Rish Shah turned to Bollywood to watch the South Asian community get the right representation on screen while growing up in the UK, and is glad that the West is rectifying it, and making it a more inclusive world for “brown people”.And that is proved by the acceptance of the global project, Ms Marvel, which is story of a Muslim superhero, and revolves around the culture of Pakistan and India. “The show represents just one part of the change within the industry in the West. It is just one story about one…

Via Hulu The latest slasher making waves is John Logan’s They/Them, which follows a group of LGBTQ+ teenagers trying to survive against a masked killer at a conversion camp. Theo Germaine is a featured member of the younger cast, and has shared that they are extremely grateful for how queer experiences were showcased throughout the film.  In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Germaine, who plays the role of Jordan, highlighted the unique ways queerness was represented through each character’s fight to…

via Hulu The team behind Prey went to great lengths to accurately portray Comanche language and culture, which pleased mixed Indigenous actor Julian Antelope Black. Black, who plays Chief Kehetu in this newest, Comanche Nation-set, Predator installment, told ScreenRant that industry representation has been elevated thanks to the work that happened on the film. “It’s been actually such a breath of well-needed fresh air in the last while to see the industry actually taking painstaking lengths to make sure things…