Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers – Two researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University – Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida – created an algorithm to detect genre by book cover image. Although their results were not stunning (exact match only 20% of the time and top three 40% ... more >
With Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Makes Bid for Amazon Prime Customers – Well, it’s a few days into Kindle Unlimited, and the world still seems to be more or less intact. Slate has an interesting perspective on the service, which is that it’s a strategy for Amazon to get more money ... more >