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Saturday, March 21, 2020

What a week! I'm going to host a WFH Workshop tomorrow (Sunday, March 22nd) from 2pm-3pm ET on Zoom. You can get login credentials at shellypalmer.com/wfh. I hope you can join us.

Since it's Saturday, for your weekend reading pleasure, I offer a synopsis of interesting articles about AI and machine learning you may have missed during this very busy week. As always, your thoughts and comments are both welcome and strongly encouraged. Just reply to this email or tweet. -s

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AI & Machine Learning Weekend Reading

 

Hospitals Tap AI to Help Manage Coronavirus Outbreak

Large health-care systems are turning to artificial intelligence to monitor patients and to regulate the flow of visitors as they attempt to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A Great Day to Learn Something New

As out of control as everything feels today, we do have control over one thing: how we spend our time. Time is a currency. So much so that we call the use of it “spending” time. Today, while some are forced to put themselves in harm’s way to do what needs to be done, many of us will have the shared experience of being alone. How will you “invest” your alone time? Here are a few ideas.

This AI system listens to coughs to learn where the coronavirus is spreading

A new AI-powered surveillance system called FluSense monitors coughing sounds to understand where the coronavirus is spreading

 

A.I. Technology Takes Over YouTube Policing As COVID-19 Empties Google Offices

If you mysteriously lost a video you uploaded to YouTube recently, there’s a good chance you don’t have a human being to blame.

WFH: My Go-To Video Apps

Chances are your company already has its preferred video conferencing tools. If not, here’s a list of the tools we’ve been using at The Palmer Group for the past several years.

Understanding the limits of convolutional neural networks — one of AI’s greatest achievements

After a prolonged winter, artificial intelligence is experiencing a scorching summer mainly thanks to advances in deep learning and artificial neural networks. To be more precise, the renewed interest in deep learning is largely due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a neural network structure that is especially good at dealing with visual data.

Five Companies Using AI to Fight Coronavirus

As of Thursday afternoon, there are 10,985 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and zero FDA-approved drugs to treat the infection.

White House’s 29,000 coronavirus papers will be fed to AI experts for analysis

The White House has urged AI experts to analyze a dataset of 29,000 scholarly articles about Coronavirus that could answer key questions about the pandemic

Survival of the Most Adaptable

The thesis of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection is usually expressed as "survival of the fittest." In our world, all evidence points to a slightly different synopsis: "survival of the most adaptable."

Work From Home Workshop - March 22 @ 2pm

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