Four short links: 25 January 2017

Robot Fist Bump, Emotion Visualization, p-Values, and food2vec

By Nat Torkington
January 25, 2017
  1. The Backstory to Obama’s Fistbump (BoingBoing) — It’s actually a prosthetic robotic arm belonging to Nathan Copeland, who can control it with his mind and sense touch with it.
  2. Plexus: Interactive Emotion Visualization based on Social Media — emotional analysis of things (e.g., cities) based on Tweets about them. (I’m picturing one large rectangle coloured “outrage.”)
  3. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther.

    Join the O'Reilly online learning platform. Get a free trial today and find answers on the fly, or master something new and useful.

    Learn more
  4. Toward Sustainable Insights (Adrian Colyer) — fantastic intro to p-values and null hypotheses at the start.
  5. food2vec: Augmented cooking with machine intelligence — first analogies: Egg is to bacon as orange juice is to coffee. South Asian is to rice as Southern European is to thyme. Then recommendations: We can use our model of food as a recommendation system for cooks. By taking the average embedding for a set of foods, we can look up foods with the closest embeddings.
Post topics: Four Short Links
Share: