MoviePass reports this morning that the monthly movie ticket service has generated $128.7 million for select film nominees since November 2017.
Tag: 02.07.18
What Working On Artificial Intelligence Is Teaching Us About Learning
“These networks clearly aren’t cheating in the way that the digesting duck was. But does all this biological inspiration mean that they work like the brain? One way to approach this question is to look more closely at their performance. To this end, scientists are studying ‘adversarial examples’ – real images that programmers alter so that the machine makes a mistake. Very small tweaks to images can be catastrophic: changing a few pixels on an image of a teapot, for example, can make the network label it an ostrich. It’s a mistake a human would never make, and suggests that something about these networks is functioning differently from the human brain.”
Innovation Is Increasingly Being Driven By Whoever Has The Most Data
“If innovation is founded on data rather than human ideas, the firms that benefit are the ones that have access to the most data. Therefore, in many instances, innovation will no longer be a countervailing force to market concentration and scale. Instead, innovation will be a force that furthers them.”
Tax Consultant: Orchestra Musicians Are Big Losers In New Tax Law
Every change in our tax laws inevitably creates new winners and losers. Examining this new tax bill, I may have discovered the biggest losers of all — orchestra musicians.
‘No Orchestra Has Ever Come Close To The Ambition Of This Season’
That’s Mark Swed’s verdict on the 100th anniversary season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It begins late next September with a festival of Californian music and a parade-cum-street-fair running from Disney Hall to the Hollywood Bowl.