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L'automatisation des entreprises canadiennes n'a pas fait chuter le nombre d'emplois
Radio-Canada: Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait croire, les entreprises canadiennes qui ont investi dans l’automatisation depuis la fin des années 1990 n’ont pas diminué le nombre de travailleurs qu’elles embauchent, mais l’ont plutôt augmenté, a indiqué lundi Statistique Canada dans une analyse.

Understanding Climate Change Using High Performance Computing and Machine Learning
Historically, the classical approaches to studying climate change required a lot of tedious manual labor. These methods typically involved differential equations, calculus, chaos theory, and butterfly effect, all of which have been used to try and understand the changes in our environment and possible causes or contributing factors to those effects. Cellular automata methods have also been helpful in modeling complex systems like fluid dynamics. With all these methods, and especially when used within the context of climate science, they require a massive amount of data.

23% of published ML papers have at least one code implementation
C'est la conclusion de l'initiative Papers With Code. Plus de détails sur leur site web.

Counter-Archiving: Combating Data Colonialism
We live in an era of data colonialism in which tech giants appropriate data as territory and act as self-appointed archons in the recording of history. To combat this, we should learn from post-colonial theory and counter-archiving as resistance, says sociologist Dr Anat Ben-David.

Comprehensive Project Based Data Science Curriculum
This curriculum offers a mix of best in class resources and a suggested path to use them in order to become a data scientist. It is intended to be a complete education in data science using online materials and is an alternative to getting a master’s degree.

Événements

L’intelligence artificielle démystifiée pour les petites entreprises
Wednesday 25 November 2020 @ 15:00
Dans cet atelier de (seulement) une heure, les participants apprennent à identifier des cas d’applications où l’utilisation de l’IA apporte de la valeur. Ils développent une compréhension globale des bases de l’IA.

WIMLDS Montreal #7: AI in the Video Game Industry
Thursday 26 November 2020 @ 18:00
6:00 pm — Kelsey Pericak, Manager, Analytics at Ubisoft "Introduction to Data Analytics at Ubisoft"
6:30 pm — Lulu Tan, Machine Learning Engineer at Unity Technologies "The Power of Machine Learning in Revolutionizing Video Games and Product Development"

AWS re:Invent 2020
Monday 30 November 2020 @ 09:00
Nov. 30 – Dec. 18, 2020
A free, 3-week virtual conference. Enjoy unlimited access to hundreds of sessions led by AWS experts. Hear from cloud leaders and be the first to learn what’s new.

Meetup Montréal-Python 81 – Ochre Libation
Monday 30 November 2020 @ 18:00
Dans notre nouvelle formule courte, on se limite à trois ou quatre présentations pour un total de 60 minutes. Les présentations seront suivies par un 5-à-7 virtuel sur notre nouveau serveur Jisti privé, gracieuseté de notre partenaire FJNR.

Github Universe
Tuesday 08 December 2020 @ 12:00
Join GitHub team leaders, industry icons, and artists inspired by code for three days of live interactive sessions as we explore the future of software for developers, enterprises, and students.