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I hope people are aware that Google has filed patents for Batch Normalization and Dropout. Both methods are very broad.
by thecleaner 7y ago
I hope people are aware that Google has filed patents for Batch Normalization and Dropout. Both methods are very broad.
- cromwellian 7y agoTrue, and would be a concern if Google had a litigious history of being a patent shakedown artist.
- JohnFen 7y agoIt's a concern regardless.
- cromwellian 7y agoAgreed. My observation is that patent shakedowns are the last resort of a market loser. Once your company starts losing vast amounts of marketshare to competitors, the patent warchest comes out. IBM and Microsoft were notorious for this, as was AT&T. Microsoft has reformed recently.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoThe problem of course, is that Google isn't the market loser... yet. So while Google doesn't have a history of patent shakedowns yet, if we look at other tech companies that are past their prime, we can make a reasonable guess Google will eventually join the patent shakedown game.