In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server this week, a team of computer scientists from the Renmin University of China in Beijing describes their system for fooling a computer trained to understand language. In short, by adding one very specific word to a particular part of a long sentence, or slightly misspelling one word in a phrase, a [...]

How Does Machine Learning Work?Machine learning is often referred to as magical or a black box:Insert data > magic black box > mission accomplished.Let’s look at the training process itself to better understand how machine learning can create value with data.CollectMachine learning is dependent on data. The first step is to make sure you have the right data as dictated [...]

Programming used to be about translation: expressing ideas in natural language, working with them in math notation, then writing flowcharts and pseudocode, and finally writing a program. Translation was necessary because each language offers different capabilities. Natural language is expressive and readable, pseudocode is more precise, math notation is concise, and code is executable. Source: Programming as a Way of [...]