Data Phoenix Digest - ISSUE 40

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NEWS

• Sparse Data Foreseeing Laboratory Quakes
• Use of AI-generated Characters for Different Fields
• Bean Machine for AI Uncertainty by Meta

ARTICLES

The Birth of Albumentations
Do you want to know how Albumentations, an open-source library for image augmentation, was born and evolved over time? Check out this comprehensive article, then!

Google Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond
In this article, you’ll find major trends for AI/ML in 2021 and beyond. Every trend comes with related research and the directions and progress we’ll likely see in the next few years.

Neural Network From Scratch
Have you ever tried to explain how neural networks work in the simplest way possible? In this article, you’ll see how it can be done by building one from scratch.

Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow, Netflix’s ML Platform
Netflix has finally open-sourced a GUI for Metaflow, a monitoring tool for allows data scientists. Learn more how it can be used for practical tasks in this post.

Using Spellchecking to Improve Tesseract OCR Accuracy
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use textblob to improve OCR accuracy by automatically spellchecking OCR’d text. Check out a previous tutorial, too.

Why You Should Stop Predicting Prices If You Want to Stand a Chance of Predicting Prices
Does it make sense to predict stock prices? In this article, you’ll find a new approach to AI and the development of models to predict stock prices. Check out this interesting read for sure!

PAPERS

Self-Supervised Learning from 100 Million Medical Images
The researchers propose a method for self-supervised learning of rich image features based on contrastive learning and online feature clustering, leveraging 100,000,000 medical images.

Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods
"Nine Motifs of Simulation Intelligence" is a roadmap for the development and integration of the essential algorithms necessary for a merger of scientific computing, scientific simulation, and AI.

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation
NL-Augmenter is a new participatory Python-based natural language augmentation framework which supports the creation of both transformations and filters in data.

A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment
In this paper, Amanda Askell et al. explore methods of building a general-purpose, text-based assistant that is aligned with human values, meaning that it is helpful, honest, and harmless.

Omnizart: A General Toolbox for Automatic Music Transcription
Omnizart is a new Python library that provides a streamlined solution to automatic music transcription. It is the first transcription toolkit with models covering a wide class of instruments.

PROJECTS

Fake It Till You Make It [Microsoft Face Analysis Project]
Learn how to combine a procedurally-generated parametric 3D face model with a comprehensive library of hand-crafted assets to render training images with unprecedented realism and diversity.

BANMo: Building Animatable 3D Neural Models from Many Casual Videos
BANMo reconstructs an animatable 3D model, including a canonical 3D shape, appearance, skinning weights, and time-varying articulations, without pre-defined shape templates.

EditGAN: High-Precision Semantic Image Editing
EditGAN is a novel method for high-quality, high-precision semantic image editing, allowing users to edit images by modifying their highly detailed part segmentation masks.

JOBS

• Senior ML Engineer for RnD Team - Parimatch Tech (Kyiv, Remote)
• Applied Research Scientist, Machine Learning - Medium (US - Remote)
• Data (DataScience) Senior - Capgemini Engineering Ukraine (Odesa, Kyiv, Remote)
• AI / Data Science Engineer - Reply (Kyiv, Dnipro, Remote)
• Sr. Data Engineer - HashiCorp (US - Remote)
• Machine Learning Architect - SoftServe (Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv...)
• Director, Engineering - Machine Learning - Twilio (US - Remote)
• Data Scientist - Snap (Odesa, Kyiv)
• Senior Data Scientist - Webflow (San Francisco HQ or Remote)
• Staff Data Engineer - Copper CRM (US - Remote)

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