A Comprehensive Overview of Classical ML Methods — Modern Deep Learning methods deliver extraordinary results every day. To understand its foundations, it is advisable to understand the classic Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning methods as well. In the Winter Semester 2020/21, I was teaching a class on this topic which is entirely available as Open Access material. You…

On peer review and some of its most significant failures — Scientific Peer Review affects all computer science researchers and academics in their daily life. More often than we actually want to admit, the process causes severe problems and wrong decisions are being made. PEER REVIEW EXAMPLE Reviewer 1: Good paper — accept Reviewer 2: Paper OK — weak accept Reviewer 3: Paper…

Seven common mistakes that break your machine learning experiments’ credibility — Machine learning is a great tool that is revolutionizing our world right now. There are lots of great applications in which machine and in particular deep learning has shown to be way superior to traditional methods. Beginning from Alex-Net for Image Classification to U-Net for Image Segmentation, we see great…

In Comprehensive Videos & Blog Posts — Corona was a huge challenge for many of us and affected our lives in a variety of ways. I have been teaching a class on Deep Learning at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany for several years now. This summer, our university decided to go “virtual” completely. …

On the friction of the slippery slope to superintelligence — In today’s popular culture and in particular on social media, we find quite opposing views whether AI is an existential risk or no significant harm. Much of the discussion is led in an opinionated fashion and the depths of the argument are only rarely presented in details. In this article…

Alicia Silverstone is putting her body on the line in the name of animal rights. The actress stars in a PETA campaign to encourage people to wear vegan, featuring a behind-the-scenes video of her being photographed nude. “I never ever get naked,” Silverstone explains about her acting work, “but if…

As the clock ticked down to the last minute, Congress surprisingly managed to craft a bipartisan deal to avoid another government shutdown. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana led the way in hammering out a compromise that included provisions for women’s health, such as a task force and hotline on…

The Thomas family in Columbus, Ohio, is pleading for the safe return of their 5-month-old twin, Kason, who went missing in a stolen car on Monday night. Kason and his twin brother, Kyair, were inside a 2010 Honda Accord outside a Donatos Pizzeria while their mother, a DoorDash driver, was…

Former tennis star Boris Becker has been found guilty of bankruptcy fraud by a London court. The three-time Wimbledon champion was accused of hiding and transferring assets to deprive creditors of more than £2 million ($2.51 million). …