Post truth and fake news

The Canary links to a story in the Daily Express of 19 January. The Canary headline is “This story went viral, yet the German Chancellor’s office confirms The Express fabricated the whole thing”. In effect the Express sub-editors have taken a fairly anodyne report and headed it: “UK and USA are WEAK: Angela Merkel calls…

Classifier accuracy

Here is a useful summary of classifier results for the main data classification tasks: – MNIST: “a large database of handwritten digits that is commonly used for training various image processing systems”. – CIFAR 10 and CIFAR 100 are The CIFAR-10 dataset has “60000 32×32 colour images in 10 classes, with 6000 images per class.…