How a competition, ImageNet, along with a noisy algorithm, Stochastic Gradient Descent, changed the fate of AI? — In the early 1980s, Winter was coming for Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a period of reduced funding and interest in AI research, which will later be called the “AI Winter”! During this cold-weather period which lasted until the mid-2000s, almost no research paper on Neural Nets was published because of…

Divide and conquer! A widely used strategy for years in history. But how to divide? Generally, most intuitive way is to look for segments with lowest levels of affinity or links within systems, networks, and even for populations! So, let’s start! — Are you ready for dividing and slicing? Let’s start with networks. We like dense networks, otherwise even if a very single edge or wire is disconnected, a large portion of the network can be down — a situation definetely not desired ! There are generally clusters, unevenly distributed segments, within…