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UCLA DH Research Seminar: Ben Breen, UCSC

Scholarly Innovation Lab, YRL 280 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles

Lunch 12-1pm. Lecture 1-3pm Click here for RSVP Abstract This talk connects the early modern European occult tradition to digital culture. In particular, it will discuss the Alchemy Website (alchemywebsite.com), Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica (esotericarchives.com), and online archives related to drugs and DIY pharmacology, like Erowid.org. Many of these sites are not just archives of old...

Green Family Lecture Series; “AI Breakthroughs & Obstacles to Progress, Mathematical and Otherwise” by Yann LeCun

Ackerman Grand Ballroom

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to attend the 2018 Green Family Lectures featuring Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook and Professor at NYU. Deep learning is causing revolutions in computer perception and natural language understanding. But almost all these successes largely rely on supervised learning, where the machine is required...

Green Family Lecture Series: “Deep Learning and the Future of Artificial Intelligence” by Yann LeCun

Ackerman Grand Ballroom

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to the first Green Family Lectures of 2018 featuring Yann LeCun, director of Facebook’s artificial intelligence research and professor at NYU. The rapid progress of AI in the last few years is largely the result of advances in deep learning and neural nets, combined with...