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Alexia is one of the most original researchers working on GANs: she invented the relativistic discriminator (a brilliant and obvious idea in hindsight: https://
by Fede_V 6y ago
Alexia is one of the most original researchers working on GANs: she invented the relativistic discriminator (a brilliant and obvious idea in hindsight: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00734 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00734) which is one of the easiest tweaks you can make to instantly boost your GAN results.
- hyperbovine 6y agoThe better the idea, the more obvious it was in hindsight.
- derefr 6y agoThere's gotta be a better word for this than "obvious." The key thing about ideas that are "brilliant and obvious in hindsight" is that the world was already ready for them, and so nothing needed to change for them to happen; i.e., they don't have any prerequisites that aren't already in place. They "just" needed someone to actually notice that there were some pieces that could be fit together in a novel way. There's no word I know of that captures this idea of "the world being ready for" the idea, though. Is the idea "incremental" in hindsight? "Elegant" in hindsight? "Free" in hindsight?
- franklampard 6y agoIntuitive?
- derefr 6y agoThat's very close! But something that's intuitive in hindsight might still have required some hard work in development, rather than "just" a brilliant, novel idea. Photolithography, for example, is intuitive, and far simpler as a technique for constructing circuit boards than what came before it; but etching circuits using light projected onto light-activated chemicals isn't one of these "the world was ready for it, someone just needed to do it" ideas. Someone thought of it, then needed to do a whole lot of work to get it to happen, finding the right chemicals, experimenting with projection technologies, etc. After the fact, the idea of photolithography is extremely intuitive; but it wasn't a better-term-for-"obvious in retrospect" idea.
- nmstoker 6y agoApposite?
- jimmydorry 6y agoApposite: apt in the circumstances or in relation to something. Neat, I learned a new word.
- girvo 6y agoWhat a brilliant word.
- normanmatrix 6y agoThis is what I call a low hanging fruit. A ripe idea. Those come in abundance. We are just not looking in the right places. https://www.normanmatrix.eu https://www.normanmatrix.eu