Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World | WIRED

The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World | WIRED: Today's Watson is very different. It no longer exists solely within a wall of cabinets but is spread across a cloud of open-standard servers that run several hundred “instances” of the AI at once. Like all things cloudy, Watson is served to simultaneous customers anywhere in the world, who can access it using their phones, their desktops, or their own data servers. This kind of AI can be scaled up or down on demand. Because AI improves as people use it, Watson is always getting smarter; anything it learns in one instance can be immediately transferred to the others. And instead of one single program, it's an aggregation of diverse software engines—its logic-deduction engine and its language-parsing engine might operate on different code, on different chips, in different locations—all cleverly integrated into a unified stream of intelligence.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

BS in CS without BS - List of available course resources

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Introduction to AngularJS – Microsoft Virtual Academy

Introduction to AngularJS – Microsoft Virtual Academy: Back by popular demand, experts Stacey Mulcahy and Christopher Harrison show you how to leverage the built-in functionality of AngularJS in your workflow.

Take a look at the most useful AngularJS tasks, and step through the construction of a simple application to explore the compelling features of the framework, including Directives, Databinding, Expressions, and Filtering. Plus, learn about taxonomy, language, structure, and more.