Month: December 2016

A simple, minimalistic implementation of a feedforward neural net in ANSI C. Supports backpropagation for training. Beautiful clean & tidy implementation. Ideal for learning if C is your thing.

I did not write this, nor do I know the author personally. But I have been interested in neural nets for a long time now, and I wish I’d found this implementation earlier. For me it explained almost everything about them after a few days studying it. It was worth more than all of the tutorials I’d read previously put together (for me, personally).

That’s why I’m sharing it, in case it helps someone else out similarly.

The author is https://twitter.com/codeplea and I think he deserves some recognition.

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9 predictions for AI in 2017. Do you Agree??

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AI has been hot in 2016, and it’s not cooling off anytime soon. Here are nine predictions to watch for in 2017:

  • We’ll end the hyperbole
  • We’ll incorporate and develop AI broadly
  • We’ll seek specialized human knowledge
  • ‘smart’ apps development only
  • Advanced health care
  • New advancement in agriculture
  • More automation at workplace
  • Security will see new standards
  • solidified ethics and guidelines

See full post here

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Mad Ants comeback bid falls short against Knicks – WANE


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Mad Ants comeback bid falls short against Knicks
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FORT WAYNE,Ind. (WANE) – The Mad Ants could not be saved by the bell on 90’s night at the Coliseum with the Ants falling to the Westchester Knicks 94-92. The Ants trailed by double-digits in the third quarter but scored 33 points in the fourth quarter …
Ants lack focus in loss to KnicksFort Wayne Journal Gazette
Westchester defense hands Mad Ants a home lossNews Sentinel
Fort Wayne Mad Ants Suffer Defeat to Westchester Knicks8 Points, 9 Seconds
Vigilant Sports –CBSSports.com
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Biologist’s ant research provides long-term look at effects of climate … – Science Daily


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Biologist’s ant research provides long-term look at effects of climate …
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Many scientists have attempted to tackle how climate change will affect the natural world by determining the thermal tolerance of various species, then predicting …

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7 of Our Most Viral Hits on Tech and the Future in 2016

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Everyone wants to know what’s coming.

At Singularity University, faculty are constantly bombarded with questions about what’s next. At Singularity Hub, we’re trying to keep our wits about us as our staff, editors, contributors, faculty, and Peter Diamandis himself show us what might be over the horizon. We’re ever-optimistic about the impact of exponential technologies, of course, but the times they are a-changing in very big ways.

Our seven most viral hits of 2016 is a curation of what resonated with our readers on social media, and every single story is not about an amazing new technology of today, but what’s coming next. Not only that, but in an unusual break from content that spreads online, the articles were almost entirely about why what’s coming next is really freaking awesome.

How could you not crave more context? The predictions! The promises! The hell with self-driving cars, just cure our diseases and make everything free already.

Here are the stories you spread far and wide on social media in 2016.

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-311. Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts

By Peter Diamandis

If 2016 was not your year, Peter Diamandis gives us all reason to look past today’s individual tragedies and toward  the greater trends. Almost universally, humanity is on the up and up.

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-5-12. The End of Meaningless Jobs Will Unleash the World’s Creativity

By S. Vollie Osborn

There is a lot of uneasiness about the future of work. Probably because “work” is the basis of our livelihoods, economic systems, and every company’s reason for being. Still, some futurists—most notably Ray Kurzweil himself—tend to be exceedingly excited about automation and the various new ways in which technology is encroaching on our jobs.

"As technology has replaced jobs requiring repetitive labor, we’ve seen an explosion in the diversity of creative output in the world."

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-4-13. Why the Cost of Living Is Poised to Plummet in the Next 20 Years

By Peter Diamandis

Seventy-five percent of the average American’s expenditures go toward housing, transportation, food, healthcare, and entertainment. In this post, Peter Diamandis laid out how the costs contained within all of those categories (and then some) are trending toward zero.

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-214. Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future

By Sveta McShane and Jason Dorrier

Any one of the revolutions in genetics, nanotechnology, or robotics is enough to make the head spin. Start thinking practically about what happens when those revolutions converge and it becomes pretty clear that we need to better prepare for some very big changes in the way we do things as humans and societies.

"The genetics revolution will allow us to reprogram our own biology. The nanotechnology revolution will allow us to manipulate matter at the molecular and atomic scale. The robotics revolution will allow us to create a greater than human non-biological intelligence."

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-6-15. See a Vision of the Jobless Future in This Beautiful Short Film

By Andrew J. O’Keefe II

We love reading about the future, but even better is seeing it. Futuristic shorts resonate with us for the same reason we love sci-fi generally here at Hub: we want to accumulate as many varied views of the future as possible. Sci-fi is an incredibly powerful tool for the human psyche; these stories give us imagined contexts to compare our present to every time we’re caught off guard by a new technological development.

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-7-16. Medicine Will Advance More in the Next 10 Years Than It Did in the Last 100

By Vivek Wadhwa

Human longevity is a new frontier for science and private businesses alike. With ridiculously swift advances in everything from cheap home genetics kits to bionic exoskeletons, there has never been a better time to be alive. And soon we will pass the need to simply solve for existing problems in medicine and focus on augmenting ourselves to perform better and last longer than ever before possible.  

"Within a few years, our genome, microbiome, behavior and environment will all be mapped and measured, and prescriptive-medicine systems based on artificial intelligence will help us feel better and live longer."

7-viral-articles-singularity-hub-8-17. We Might Live in a Virtual Universe — But It Doesn’t Really Matter

By Maxim Roubintchik

The philosophical intelligentsia of Silicon Valley have long loved the idea that our very existence has possibly always been virtual (and the idea has gained some popularity after the king sophist Elon Musk mused on it earlier this year). In a logic train loved by many, contributing writer Maxim Roubintchik made the following point:

"Our perception of reality is already different from reality itself. What we call reality is our brains’ attempt to process the incoming flood of sensory data."

Debates about virtual or “real” existence are just as fun as debates about human and machine consciousness precisely because reality and consciousness are both pretty damn difficult to define.   

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XOR Neural network written in “simple” C++

Hello, About a year ago i started diving into the world of artificial intelligence. I started building NN’s from scratch to better understand them. I succeeded to build a NN in C++ capable of learning XOR logic in about 250 lines of simple C++. (I’m not a pro at it). GithubRepo

This code u can simply put it in a empty C++ project, compile it and run.

I also build a simple system in the code that if the network does not converge after a certain amount of iterations it will start again, This so it will guarantee you that within minutes the network is trained. It will leave you 2 file’s. In ErrorData.txt you can see the learning progress by iteration. You can open it with excel and create a graph to visualize the learning procces of the network. In WeightData.txt you can see the weights of the network after training.

I’m eager to learn more about this and especially on multilayered networks and deep neural networks. I would appreciate commends and remarks on the code and maybe tips and information about neural networks and artificial intelligence overall. I’m always in for a discussion 🙂

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Digital Trends – Trump is a Media Virus

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We’ll likely never touch the man, sit in the same room, or establish rapport with him. But he has nonetheless infected all of us quite intimately — some of us willingly, and some less so. That’s because he is less invasive as a person than he is as a virus. Yes, Donald Trump is a media virus, in the truest sense of the term.

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