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Writer and storyteller @Microsoft Formerly economics and financial journalist for @NBCNews @Todayshow and @CNBC.
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Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition

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By Allison Linn
| microsoft.com
Microsoft researchers from the Speech & Dialogue research group include, from back left, Wayne Xiong, Geoffrey Zweig, Xuedong Huang, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike Seltzer, Jasha Droppo and Andreas Stolcke. (Photo by Dan DeLong) Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does.
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The next evolution of machine learning: Machine teaching

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By Allison Linn
| microsoft.com
Microsoft researchers are at the forefront of efforts to help people without a machine learning background teach their systems to get better based on experience. They’re calling this new evolution machine teaching. “No one has really built a machine learning tool for the layman,” said Patrice Simard, a distinguished engineer with Microsoft Research who is leading a new machine teaching research project at Microsoft Research.
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Yahoo's new baby leave policy is generous. Yours? Probably not so much

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By Allison Linn
| TODAY Verified
Getty Images stock Not all parents can expect to get generous paid parental leave, experts say. By Allison Linn, TODAY Hey working moms and dads, just because Yahoo employees are getting more generous parental leave benefits doesn’t mean you should expect those perks, too. Under Yahoo’s new policy, new moms who give birth are eligible for up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave, with benefits. New dads can get up to eight weeks of paid paternity leave with benefits, according to Yahoo.
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