Friday Fun (Thanksgiving 24-Nov-2017 Edition)

Can an AI be taught to explain itself? Cliff Kuang, New York Times Magazine
This is a good account of some of the problems we face with machine learning today. There is a clear disconnect between the results you get with good applications of ML, and understanding why they work the way they do. I am not convinced, however, that just adding a second network on the side to explain the first really will solve the problem — it begs the question of how we will understand what that network is doing.
Come On Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners. It’s worth finding different versions of this song and listening, because there are some fun intros and exits you don’t hear on the usual radio mix! See the wikipedia page for a nice discussion.