Web User - UK (2019-11-27)

6 27 Nov-10 Dec

Y

ou don’t needto be a

programminggenius to get to

grips with the basics of machine

learning. Indeed,acouple ofyears

ago,Google launcheditsTeachable

Machine, which allowedanyonetouse

awebcam or files on their harddrive

to te ach thecomputer howto

recognise patterns in data.

Now, Google has u nveiled

Teacha ble Machine2.0,which again

doesn’trequireany coding and lets

youinterac tvia your microphone.

Choose between an Imag e, Audio

andPoseproject and,bys electing

photos,sounds or people moving

around,the computercan be

trainedto pick up on thedifferences

to classifynew examples –suchas

telling th edifferencebetween a

human andadog.Trained models

canthen beexportedtowebsites,

http://www.youtube.com
YouT ubehas madeafew tweaks to itswebsite,the most
useful of which is anew “add to queu e” button.Thisappears
when youhoveroveravideo thumbnailorc lick thethree-
dotmenuunderneath. As with theYouTube mobile app, the
queu eoptionletsyou choose thenextset of videosto
watchwithout
interrupting the
onethat’s
currentlyplaying
and,unlike
WatchLater
(which remains
an option), it
doesn’ tadd
them to yo ur
permanent
playlist.
Otherchanges
include longervideo titl es,largerthumbnails andvideo
previews that play in ahigher resolution.YouTube hasalso
addedchannelicons below thumbnailstomakeite asierto
reco gnisecontent creators.Recommendationsremain,but
it’s nowpossible to tell YouTube nottopromote aparticular
channel ontheYouTube homepage. Just clic kthe three-dot
menu andselectDon’t RecommendChannel.

http://www.dropbox.com/transfer

Dropbox lets yousharefiles

that ot herscan access and

edit,but thedownsideist hat

collaborators canalter

theoriginal documents

and view anyupdatesyou

subsequentlymake. With a

newfeature called Dropbox

Transfer,you canselectfiles

from your harddrive or

Dropbox accountand

generate alink, so

recipientsare re stricted to

downloadingthe content

withoutalteringthe original.

It’s similartoWeTransfer and allows userstoget around

emailfile-size restrictions,although free Dropboxusers are

limitedto100MB. Paid -for accounts offerlimitsbetween

2GBand 100GB, depending on theplan, and letyou set

expirationdates and protectthe fi les with pass words.

It’s also possibletocheck howmanytimessomeonehas

accessed thefiles and maketransfersfromDropbox’s

desktopand iOSapps.

devicesand apps.

Along with ea sy-t o-follo wvideo

tutorials,there arelinks to three

example projects that teachthe

computertodetermineif abanana

is ripe,detectsimpl esoundsand

recognise whichway your headis

tiltin g. Real-lifeprojectsare also

exploredand, foranyoneworried

aboutprivacy,Google promisesthat

anymediayou upload orcapture

remainsonyour device unlessyou

save aproject to Google Drive.

teacha blemachine. withgoogle.com

Master machinelearningwithout

using code

QueuevideosonYouTube Sharelarge Dropbox files

with anyone

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