Third:

Basic, state-of-the-art and best MOOCs are Andrew Ngs Machine Learning and Hinton's Neural Networks.

Kinda AMA with Yoshua Bengio on Quora:
https://www.quora.com/profile/Yoshua-Bengio/session/37/

This is your chance to ask something you don't know about and always been dreeming to ask.

Now phones can record sound with gyroscope. Be careful.

https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/

Nice infographic on apple app charts

https://medium.com/i-data/apple-s-app-charts-2015-data-and-trends-abb95300df57

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New startup by David Yan implements natural language processing for search.

Much like Facebook search interface, available in US English language.

https://findo.io/

Zukerberg sits 20 feet from people who are working on Facebook AI
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102619979696481

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html

Go is no more a puzzle.

There is a Luka — asisstent to pick places nearby. Works only in SF, but it looks promicing: http://luka.ai

Paper about recent AlphaGo solution.

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/deepmind-mastering-go.pdf

A very important picture from a recent LeCun CVPR. Important for those, who want to study QA / Dialogue systems.

Deep residual networks from Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

https://github.com/KaimingHe/deep-residual-networks

Deep learning methods are able to automatically discover better representations of the data to improve the performance of the classifiers. However, in computer vision tasks, such as the gender recognition problem, sometimes it is difficult to directly learn from the entire image. In this work we propose a new model called Local Deep Neural Network (Local-DNN), which is based on two key concepts: local features and deep architectures. The model learns from small overlapping regions in the visual field using discriminative feed-forward networks with several layers. We evaluate our approach on two well-known gender benchmarks, showing that our Local-DNN outperforms other deep learning methods also evaluated and obtains state-of-the-art results in both benchmarks.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167865515004018

New Deep Mind team breakthrough — system is able to navigate through Doom

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076552-google-deepmind-ai-navigates-a-doom-like-3d-maze-just-by-looking/

NVidia Released cuDNN v.4.0.

Though we do not recommend to use it right away, especially on macs, since running bleeding edge can result in great pain for the developer. But be aware, that cuDNN 4.0 is now awailable

No, there is no dark magic in Deep Learning!