According to one urban legend, statistics depends on the normal distribution and, since most data aren't normally distributed, statistics is invalid.

This myth is easily busted. Many data, including natural phenomena, are in fact normally distributed. Secondly, the normal (Gaussian) distribution is but one of more than three dozen used in statistics. These two books concisely review the ones used most often by statisticians:

- Handbook of Statistical Distributions (Krishnamoorthy)
- Statistical Distributions (Forbes et al.)

As Bayesian statistics becomes mainstream, a good understanding of probability may be more important than ever. I've been cracking the books and have found these three quite helpful:

- Introduction to Probability (Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis)
- Introduction to Probability Models (Ross)
- Essentials of Probability Theory for Statisticians (Proschan and Shaw)

These three provide a somewhat philosophical take on probability:

- Probability, Statistics and Truth (von Mises)
- Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Jaynes)
- Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics (Briggs)

Lastly, I'd recommend The Improbability Principle by David Hand to anyone.

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There is no machine learning for dummies. It is a fact that we have to accept it !
machine learning is an advanced topic that needs knowledge of math, optimization algorithms and programming constraints.

Poeple love to hear stories about AI and how powerful machine learning is. However, they give up as soon as they see the first math equation.

If you want it, work for it ! do not dream for it !

#AI

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#TapNGhost: Novel Attack Techniques against #Smartphone Touchscreens - essentially by putting you phone down on a hacked table with #NFC you can hijack what the user taps on the screen. Never using my phone on a table again 😅 #hack #exploit #security youtu.be/kmYCXH4ax-g

Face Recognition System Using FaceNet

https://github.com/KarthikBalakrishnan11/Face_Recognition_FaceNet

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Google Open Sources TensorNetwork , A Library For Faster ML And Physics Tasks
https://bit.ly/2F9vFus

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Here's a demo of image classification with the webcam by using #tensorflowjs, the entire code is being run in the browser!

#machinelearning in the browser is the next big frontier of AI, as the world's 50% population is now online.

#Google's #tensorflowjs makes it easier to train and deploy machine learning/deep learning models in the browser itself. No major installations required, just a browser and internet!

https://lnkd.in/gxZvTJj
#ai #datascience #machinelearners #deeplearning

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1000x Faster Data Augmentation

#ComputerVision #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence

http://bit.ly/31hpcH0
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Mona Jalal: Our paper is now on CVF Website. Check it out and please stop by our poster tomorrow #CVPR #CVPR2019 http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPRW_2019/html/WiCV/Jalal_SIDOD_A_Synthetic_Image_Dataset_for_3D_Object_Pose_Recognition_CVPRW_2019_paper.html

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Neurons inside BERT when it gets trained on “Hey Jude” over and over.

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Divide and Conquer the Embedding Space for Metric Learning" at #CVPR2019
Paper and Code: https://bit.ly/dcesml


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Sound of Pixels: a network learning correspondences between image regions and sound components by watching unlabeled videos. http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/
Cool work by Antonio Torralba's group! #CVPR2019

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Camera localization techniques for AR require persistent storage of digital 3D maps. But deep neural networks can reconstruct detailed images of scenes from such maps. Our solution keeps 3D maps confidential while accurately computing camera pose https://aka.ms/AA5bu2n #CVPR2019
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paper on Hybrid Task Cascade for Instance Segmentation, ranking 1st in COCO 2018 Challenge Object Detection task.
Project page: http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/HybridTaskCascade/
Code: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection

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Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon is an expert in 3D #computervision and graphics. Discover work on body- and hand-tracking for tech like Kinect and HoloLens and hear how research on dolphins helped build models for the human hand:
https://aka.ms/AA5b1q9 #CVPR2019
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hierarchical localization paper won the visual localization challenge at #CVPR2019
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03506

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Facebook & Partnership AI are organizing the 1st Computer Vision for Global Challenges workshop #CVPR2019. they want to help build partnerships between researchers and humanitarian orgs, and discuss how AI can advance the UN sustainable development goals. https://research.fb.com/computer-vision-and-global-challenges-new-research-and-applications/

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Facebook AI:
Researchers have created 2.5D visual sound by injecting spatial information contained in video frames that accompany a typical monaural audio stream. We've open sourced our data set & videos w/ binaural audio are included. We'll present this at #CVPR2019.
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/visual-sound/

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When in doubt, people ask for help. What if our personal digital assistants could do the same? Microsoft researchers have created a novel method of training agents to strategically ask for assistance during vision-language tasks:
https://aka.ms/AA5auc5 #CVPR2019

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Introducing Text2Scene, an interpretable compositional text-to-image synthesis approach https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01110 // No GANs! but results as good or superior to GANs when it comes to generating scenes.

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