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Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba

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Re: Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba

#21
Here's a presentation from one of their researchers, Harm van Seijen[0], to give you an idea of what sort of work they do.

Applying reinforcement learning to dialogue systems seems incredibly difficult, but if Maluuba (or others) can get a handle on the problem it would not be unreasonable to expect another revolution in the vein of applying convolutional nets to vision.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-8WkKhHYqA

Re: Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba

#22

MS has always shown that they can do research, halolens is one such product and the recent ML enablement spree is another example. It is a good thing that they are going beyond their comfort zone of milking Windows. What is interesting is to see if their efforts make any difference in the status quo. I say this after using AzureML, which I liked, there is no such thing on the internet which allows you to write a ML m…

Thanks for the comment I had not seen this before. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/ ^Basic version is free to use!

Yes, basic version is free to use and it truly is an amazing application. MS feels like a company with a direction :-)

Had they had this direction ten years ago, probably android would not have existed!

Re: Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba

#23

MS has always shown that they can do research, halolens is one such product and the recent ML enablement spree is another example. It is a good thing that they are going beyond their comfort zone of milking Windows. What is interesting is to see if their efforts make any difference in the status quo. I say this after using AzureML, which I liked, there is no such thing on the internet which allows you to write a ML m…

It also has a Jupyter Notebook service piece currently in preview. https://notebooks.azure.com/ (full disclosure: employee here)

I'll love it when Jupyter 2.0 is supported if it isnt currently supported. Great product!

Re: Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought this company was located in Waterloo.

Yeah last time I checked it was at Columbia & Phillip, right next to UW.

One of the co-founders is pretty big in the Montreal startup scene.
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