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If you start to become a revenue issue for google, they will come after you. Till then should be fine.
by mkagenius 7y ago
If you start to become a revenue issue for google, they will come after you. Till then should be fine.
- oh_sigh 7y agoHow would anyone be able to tell if you train with dropout layers?
- m0zg 7y agoOr with batchnorm for that matter. The multiplicative part of BN can be folded into weights after training, and the additive portion can be folded into bias. Nobody would know you used BN in the first place. Dropout disappears altogether at inference time.
- mkagenius 7y agoMost of the time litigation is just to harass and tire the weaker opponent, truth may not even matter.
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y agoExcept, Google has never used patents offensively. Or at least I can‘t recall them doing it. They mostly just patent stuff for defense against patent trolls and companies like Oracle.
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- smueller1234 7y agohttps://www.google.com/patents/licensing/ https://www.google.com/patents/licensing/ That probably greatly depends on some of the programs listed on the page above (check out the one at the very bottom, that suggests to my non lawyer mind that Google won't do so unless you sue them about patents first). Again, not a lawyer. Disclosure: work at Google, do not speak for Google. Just helping with pointing out public info.