position:independent researcher

Implementing a Sequence-to-Sequence Model
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Learn how to implement a sequence-to-sequence model in this article by Matthew Lamons, founder, and CEO of Skejul — the AI platform to help people manage their activities, and Rahul Kumar, an AI scientist, deep learning practitioner, and independent researcher.In this article, you’ll implement a seq2seq model (an encoder-decoder RNN) for a simple sequence-to-sequence question-answer task. This model can be trained to map an input sequence (questions) to an output sequence (answers), which are not necessarily of the same length as each other.This type of seq2seq model has shown impressive performance in various other tasks such as speech recognition, machine translation, question answering, Neural Machine Translation (NMT), and image caption generation.The following diagram helps you (...)

#keras #python #deep-learning #tensorflow #machine-learning

Generating Lyrics Using Deep (Multi-Layer) LSTM
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Learn how to generate lyrics using deep (multi-layer) LSTM in this article by Matthew Lamons, founder, and CEO of Skejul — the AI platform to help people manage their activities, and Rahul Kumar, an AI scientist, deep learning practitioner, and independent researcher.This article will show you how to create a deep LSTM model suited for the task of generating music lyrics. Here’s your goal: to build and train a model that outputs entirely new and original lyrics that is in the style of an arbitrary number of artists. You can refer to the code file found at Lyrics-ai (▻https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-Deep-Learning-Projects/tree/master/Chapter06/Lyrics-ai) for this exercise.Data pre-processingTo build a model that can generate lyrics, you’ll need a huge amount of lyric #data, which (...)

#machine-learning #artificial-intelligence #python #deep-learning

Europe’s quiet offensive against people helping refugees – EURACTIV.com
▻https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/europes-quiet-offensive-against-people-helping-refugees

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Three years ago today (31 October), EU pressure on Italy forced the end of one of the EU’s most successful humanitarian missions, ‘Mare Nostrum’, a search-and-rescue operation that in just one year brought 130,000 refugees safely to Europe’s shores. Ben Hayes and Frank Barat look back on three years since the end of Operation Mare Nostrum.

Frank Barat is coordinator of the War and Pacification program at the Transnational Institute. He has edited several books, the latest being Freedom is a Constant Struggle with Angela Davis. Ben Hayes is a fellow of the Transnational Institute and an independent researcher.

As the death toll mounted in the wake of this decision, including 1,200 victims at sea five months later, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) stepped into the breach, launching their own rescue missions in a desperate attempt to save lives. Their efforts were part of a wave of compassion across Europe that year, as people organised convoys to refugee reception centers, warmly greeted arrivals at German train stations and lined highways to provide food and water to those making the arduous trek from war-torn regions of Syria and elsewhere.

As European politicians retreated from their humanitarian obligations, its citizens demonstrated Europe’s tradition of compassion, solidarity and commitment to the Geneva Conventions.

In his first State of the Union address, EU Commission President Juncker had even praised the volunteers as representative of the kind of “Europe I want to live in”. Yet just a few short years later, the Union looks very different, and Juncker is silent as those very same activists are now being treated as criminals rather than heroes.

« WITH OR WITHOUT THE BROTHERS » un colloque à ne pas rater, aujourd’hui et demain à Sciences Po Paris.

▻http://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/evenements/#/?lang=fr&id=4225

Organisé par Laurent Bonnefoy, François Burgat et Stéphane Lacroix, il réunit des chercheur-e-s français, arabes, etc dont les travaux sont des références.

WITH OR WITHOUT THE BROTHERS. DOMESTIC, REGIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN ISLAMISM (2013-2015)
du 29/10 | 09h30 au 30/10 | 18h00

Dans le cadre du projet ERC When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World

En partenariat avec l’IREMAM, l’IFPO, et l’Université d’Oslo


Thursday 29th of October, 2015

9:30-9:45 Opening address by Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

9:45-10:30 Keynote address by François Burgat, WAFAW, IREMAM
From Ghannouchi to al-Baghdadi: The ubiquitous diversity of the Islamic lexicon

Panel 1: Linking political exclusion to violence?

10:30-13:15

Chair: Loulouwa Al-Rachid, WAFAW, Sciences Po-CERI

Sari Hanafi, WAFAW, American University of Beirut
Transnational movement of Islamic reform: New configurations

Bjorn Olav Utvik, Oslo University
Myths of Ikhwan disaster: Anatomy of the 2011-1013 power struggle in Egypt

Amal-Fatiha Abbassi, IREMAM, Sciences Po Aix
The Muslim Brotherhood and political disengagement. The consequences of an authoritarian situation

11:45-12:00 Coffee break

Monica Marks, WAFAW, Oxford University
Survivalist club or dynamic movement? Generational politics in Ennahda today

Joas Wagemakers, Utrecht University
With or without the others: Consolidating divisions within the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (2013-2015)

Amel Boubekeur, SWP, Berlin
Algerian Islamists and Salafis after the Arab Spring: Eroding or reloading the regime?

Panel 2: A Resilient Muslim Brotherhood?

14:30-16:45

Chair: Stéphane Lacroix, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po

Rory McCarthy, Oxford University
When Islamists lose an election

Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Evolving transnational networks and media strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood

Marie Vannetzel, WAFAW, CURAPP
#R4bia: The dynamics of the pro-Mursi mobilizations in Turkey

Dilek Yankaya, WAFAW, IREMAM
A “transnational Islamic business network”? Rethinking the connections between Turkish, Egyptian and Tunisian “Islamic businessmen” after the Arab Springs

16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-17:45 Open discussion on contemporary Muslim Brotherhood dynamics

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Friday 30th of October, 2015

Panel 3: The Iraqi/Syrian matrix of violence

9:30-11:30

Chair: Bjorn Olav Utvik, Oslo University

Loulouwa Al-Rachid, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po
The Disarray of Iraqi Sunnis

Truls Tonnesen, FFI, Oslo
The Iraqi origins of the “Islamic State”

Yahya Michot, Hartford Seminary
Ibn Taymiyya in ’Dabiq’

Thomas Pierret, Edinburgh University
Farewell to the vanguard: Syria’s Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement and wartime de-radicalisation

Tine Gade, Oslo University
Sunnism in Lebanon after the Syrian war

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

Panel 4: Al-Qaeda vs. the Islamic State

11:45-13:30
Chair: François Burgat, WAFAW, IREMAM

Hasan Abu Hanieh, Independent researcher
New Jihadism: From harassment to empowerment (In Arabic)

Brynjar Lia, Oslo University
The jihadi movement and rebel governance: A reassertion of a patriarchal order?

Stéphane Lacroix, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po
Saudi Arabia, the Brothers and the others: the ambiguities of a complex relationship

Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi, Al-Baidha University
Ansar al-Sharia in South Yemen: configuration, expansion and discourse (In Arabic)

Ismail Alexandrani, Independent researcher
Sinai with and without the Brothers: did it matter?

Panel 5: Muslim Brothers and their Islamist competitors

14:30-16:45
Chair: Sari Hanafi, WAFAW, American University of Beirut

Muhammad Abu Rumman, Jordanian University
Dilemmas in Salafi dynamics in the wake of the Arab democratic revolutions (In Arabic)

Stéphane Lacroix, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po
Being Salafi under Sisi: Examining the post-coup strategy of the al-Nour party

Ahmed Zaghlul, CEDEJ, Cairo
The nationalization of the religious sphere in Egypt (In Arabic)

Myriam Benraad, IREMAM
Iraqi Muslim Brothers: Between the Islamic State and a hard place

Nicolas Dot-Pouillard, WAFAW, IFPO
Hizbullah and Muslims Brothers: A political rupture or a contract renegotiation?

Laurent Bonnefoy, WAFAW, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS)
Islahis, Salafis, Huthis: reconfigurations of the Islamist field in war torn Yemen


16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00 Concluding remarks and discussion with François Burgat (WAFAW, IREMAM) and Bernard Rougier (Paris III University).

Conference in English and Arabic (with translation)

Responsables scientifiques: Laurent Bonnefoy (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS), Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po-CERI),François Burgat (IREMAM), Bjorn Olav Utvik (Oslo University)

Sciences Po-CERI: 56, rue Jacob 75006 Paris (salle de conférences)

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE auprès de nathalie.tenenbaum@sciencespo.fr

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Comment mentir avec les cartes

C’est le titre du livre que Mark Monmonnier a écrit dans les années 1990, lequel a eu un grand succès.

▻http://www.markmonmonier.com/how_to_lie_with_maps_14880.htm

Et voici une initiative très intéressante d’un jeune chercheur :

I am an independent researcher working on a project to understand the impact of selected key works in geography. My current contract is to write on what impact Mark Monmonier’s “How to Lie with Maps” has had on the field. I have done an extensive review of the existing literature but would welcome any thoughts that listserv members might have on how this book and its insights have influenced thought both within the academy and as applied to ’real-world’ problems. Examples of specific incidents would be most
welcome!

Please contact me directly at:

hradcany1@yahoo.com. Many thanks!

Justin Gilstrap
Dartmouth College (BA-Geography/Government)
Columbia University (Masters of International Affairs)

#cartographie #géographie #cartographie_radicale #manipulation #propagande