Inside Facebook’s Quest for Software That Understands You

My colleague, Mark Wilson, brought this excellent article on Deep Learning in the MIT Technology Review to my attention recently, Titled Teaching Machines to Understand Us it gives a very good and detailed overview of the history, current developments and challenges of Deep Learning. I work in AI but I didnt know Facebook, for example, had such an interest in this. Recommended.

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TV interview on Artificial Intelligence

I was interviewed last night on Media Take for Maori Television. The interview was about the recent predictions by people like Steve Wozniak and Stephen Hawking that artificial intelligence might develop to the point where humans become redundant and robots rule the world. The show will be broadcast (in New Zealand) again on Sunday at 2:00pm but it can be viewed online at http://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/media-take/S02E005/media-take-series-2-episode-5

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10 Garbage Collection Interview Questions and Answers in Java Programming

GC Interview Questions Answer in Java

Garbage collection interview questions are very popular in both core Java and advanced Java Interviews. Apart from  Java Collection and Thread  many tricky Java questions stems Garbage collections which are tough to answer. In this Java Interview article I will share some questions from GC which is asked in various core Java interviews.These questions are based upon concept of How Garbage collection works, Different kinds of Garbage collector and JVM parameters used for garbage collection monitoring and tuning. As I said GC is an important part of any Java interview so make sure you have good command in GC. One more thing which is getting very important is ability to comprehend and understand Garbage collection Output, more and more interviewer are checking whether candidate can understand GC output or not. During Java interview they may provide a snippet of GC output and ask various questions based on that e.g. Which Garbage collector is used, whether output is from major collection or minor collection, How much memory is free from GC, What is size of new generation and old generation after GC etc. I have included few Garbage collection interview questions and answers from GC output to help with that. It’s recommended to prepare questions from Java collection,  multithreading and programming along with Garbage collection to do well in Java interviews at any stage.

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