Data Science News Daily Roundup – 16th March 2018

Unity releases ML-Agents v0.3, Magenta introduces MusicVAE, CockroachDB’s new enterprise feature named geo-partitioning, and more in today’s top stories around machine learning, deep learning, and data science news 

Top Data science News Stories of the Day

Unity releases ML-Agents v0.3: Imitation Learning, Memory-Enhanced Agents  and more

AmoebaNets: Google’s new evolutionary AutoML

Other Data Science News at a Glance

1. AI chip startup SambaNova raises $56M from Google Ventures. SambaNova is a startup that makes chips specifically for artificial intelligence. The Series A funding round was led by Walden International and GV, Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital arm, and it also included participation from Redline Capital and Atlantic Bridge Ventures.

Read more on SiliconAngle.

2. Magenta introduces MusicVAE, a machine learning model that lets us create palettes for blending and exploring musical scores. The technical goal of this class of models is to represent the variation in a high-dimensional dataset using a lower-dimensional code, making it easier to explore and manipulate intuitive characteristics of the data.

Read more on the Magenta Blog.

3. CockroachDB introduces a new enterprise feature named geo-partitioning which aims at improving performance by reducing latency. Geo-partitioning grants developers row-level replication control.

Read more on Cockroach Labs blog.

4. Princeton announces blockchain analysis tool, BlockSci 0.4.5. BlockSci is a fast and expressive tool to analyze public blockchains. The 0.4.5 version has a large number of feature enhancements and bug fixes including a 5x speed improvement over the initial version.

Read more on Freedom to Tinker.

5. Earnix Ltd announced the introduction of its Integrated Machine Learning technology, as an enhancement to the existing insurance software suite. This new capability is designed for demanding, high-performance real-time enterprise production systems, and will deliver a new level of market responsiveness and analytical sophistication to insurers.

Read more on digitaljournal.