Posted by Thomas Fischbacher, Researcher in Compression, Google Research, Zürich Recent strides in machine learning (ML) research have led to the development of tools useful for research problems well beyond the realm for which they were designed. The value of these tools when applied to topics ranging from teaching robots how to throw to predicting the olfactory properties of molecules is now beginning to be realized. Inspired by advances such as these, we undertook the challenge of applying Te...