Jakub Langr's Blog

GANs & applied ML @ ICLR 2019

Jakub Langr — Sat, 11 May 2019 21:00:00 +0100

Understanding the bleeding-edge GAN papers from one of the world's best known AI research conferences. Some musings on the academic workshops on "applied ML".

AI Gets Creative Thanks To GANs Innovations

Jakub Langr — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Review of some areas where GANs have been applied for all those people that keep asking me where do they get applied, haha.

List of ICML GAN Papers

Jakub Langr — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:00:00 +0100

All ICML GANs / Generative Papers: I went to Stockholm and spoke to academics, so you don't have to! Domain adaptation, 3D GANs, Data Inputation using GANs and much more!

Prioritised list of AI threats

Jakub Langr — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:00:00 +0000

My contribution to what I feel like is fundamentally lacking from the "dangers of AI" debate.

Coding for GANS & (Semi)-Learning

Jakub Langr — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0100

As it often happens, I get busy at work and forget to publish something I should have really done months ago. Well, this code is that thing. But at least it's now nice and shiny.

GANs & Semi-Supervised Learning

Jakub Langr — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:00:00 +0100

I know what you're thinking: can there be anything more exciting? Rest assured, the wild party don't stop there. So hold on to your glasses nerds, we're going to do some A-friggin-I. Or if you're into ML and think this minus the sarcasm. But actually, this is super cool.

Artificially Intelligent Business

Jakub Langr — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:00:00 +0000

AI is moving forward at an amazing rate but we should take the time to appreciate all the amazing potential of the recent advancements. I want to take the time to get some technical appreciation for the business implications the recent AI may have.

Kaggle Struggle

Jakub Langr — Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:00 +0100

My trip to the <1% of data scientists. Or in the the world of competitive data science and back again. Aka: three (relative) successes and a fail. Also how not to spend a lot of money on your data problem. I need to start writing better summaries.

...especially about the future

Jakub Langr — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0100

A year ago, I wrote about the Good Judgment Project -- an attempt to use prediction markets to study our understanding of forecasting of geo-political events. I was lucky to be selected as one of the participants in this project and now I am eager to share my thoughts.

Speaking at European Economic Congress 2015

Jakub Langr — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:00:00 +0100

I wanted to write a personal post about my experience speaking at an international conference and what I think the trouble with policy-makers trying to spur entrepreneurship is.

On MOOCs: Projects, Practice and Perspective

Jakub Langr — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:00:00 +0000

I said I will stop at finishing 14 online courses... and I am doing three MOOCs again. Review of my learning journey, projects I have done, reviews of great and good courses, my (brief) take on practices. UPDATED.

On Randomness in (Social) Science

Jakub Langr — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:00:00 +0000

Slightly technical, but relatively simple introduction to randomness and why it has to be everywhere around us. (Also check out the cool new LaTeX plug-in.)

Web Summit Dublin 2014

Jakub Langr — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:00:00 +0000

An amazing week filled with learning about tech and startups, in the presence of inspiring people, cool businesses and most importantly fellow scholars--probably the most awesome group of people in existence.

#hackZurich 2014: A hackhathon to remember

Jakub Langr — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0100

My experiences at #hachZurich (http://hackzurich.com/): 30+ hours of coding, 5 hours of sleep, 14 hours of transportation door-to-door and back. One epic weekend.

Tracking the CrISIS in Syria

Jakub Langr — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:00:00 +0100

Exploring the power of Big Data approach (GDELT) applied to the civil war in Syria to get unconventional insights into the Syrian civil war and the terror tactics of ISIS.

Predictions R hard

Jakub Langr — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:00:00 +0100

Quick and dirty statistical modeling in R for social scientists, decision makers and enthusiasts. Insights from my involvement in a US intelligence project.

About Me

Jakub Langr — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:00:00 +0100

About Me