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Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
PyTorch Implementation of "Unsupervised learning by competing hidden units" MNIST classifier
I recently watched this lecture by Dmitry Krotov and found it very interesting so I thought it would make a good paper to try to reproduce. My original thoughts were that this could potentially solve the adversarial…
REIMAGINING THE WORLD OF MEDICAL IMAGING USING AI
Radiology is already one of AI's early beneficiaries, but providers are just at the beginning of what they will be able to accomplish in the next few years as machine learning explodes into the imaging realm. AI is…
IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS AT HIGH RISK OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE USING AI
Under reporting makes it difficult to know just how many people suffer from intimate partner violence (IPV), says Bharti Khurana, MD, an emergency radiologist at BWH. But the symptoms are often hiding in plain sight for…
VOICE-FIRST TECHNOLOGY - IMPROVING HEALTHCARE USING AI
Natural language processing is already a routine part of many behind-the-scenes clinical workflows, but voice-first tools are expected to make their way into the patient-provider encounter in a new way. Smart speakers…
NARROWING THE GAPS IN MENTAL HEALTHCARE USING AI
Nearly twenty percent of US patients struggle with a mental health disorder, yet treatment is often difficult to access and expensive to use regularly. Reducing barriers to access for mental and behavioral healthcare,…
Four technologies helping us to fight corruption
Corruption chips away at democracy to produce a vicious cycle, where corruption undermines democratic institutions and, in turn, weak institutions are less able to control corruption. This is a fascinating report on…