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This seems like a bog standard object detection model wrapped into a nice frontend to teach it easily. I'm surprised it took this long. What am I not understand
by m0zg 6y ago
This seems like a bog standard object detection model wrapped into a nice frontend to teach it easily. I'm surprised it took this long. What am I not understanding here? When it comes to Andrew Ng, I expect nothing less than Skynet.
- person_of_color 6y agoIsn't he a bit of a charlatan now?
- m0zg 6y agoHe's one of the smartest people I've had a chance to learn from (I took a couple of his MOOCs over the years). You can immediately tell because he's able to explain complex concepts in a simple and easy to understand fashion, and make them intuitive, which to me is a distinguishing trait in people who understand, and don't merely parrot memorized jargon. So no, he's not a "charlatan" at all. He's likely one of the most informed people in the industry.
- ramoz 6y agoShouldn't articulation mean a certain breadth of intellectual perspective vs depth? Just a thought, be feel like those discovering novelties on their own might struggle to articulate their intuition.
- luminati 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15313048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15313048
- m0zg 6y agoMeh. That's a sour grapes comment from someone who has achieved little to nothing themselves. All you need to do is watch a few of his lectures. He understands this stuff deeply, he's obviously extremely intelligent, and he, quite possibly, made stronger impact in the field than anybody else by just teaching AI better than anybody else to a much larger audience than anybody else. Likewise Hassabis' impact on the field is not to be underestimated. Deepmind is cranking out brilliant papers faster than I can read them at times. That would not be possible without Hassabis.
- luminati 6y agoHow is that a sour grapes comment? Is it wrong to point out the Baidu cheating scandal that happened under his watch? Look - seems like you benefited from his M00C and you’re his fan boy/girl. Good for you but let’s not commit the fatal error of pandering/worshipping at the altar of authority.
- m0zg 6y agoYeah, let's instead worship on the altar of a random HN poster such as yourself. /s
- nmfisher 6y agoJust because you have technical chops, doesn't mean you're magically imbued with the ability to conjure up demand for sci-fi-tier products. Commercialization isn't about how smart you are or how elegant your product is. It's about finding someone else's problem and convincing them to pay you to solve it. This isn't a jab at Andrew (Coursera shows he has a very good head for commercialization), and this platform looks like a perfectly acceptable solution to a particular customer demand. It's just a reminder that selling things can sometimes look boring to techies, because customers usually have boring problems.
- bigiain 6y ago"This seems like {{useful but understood thing}} wrapped into a nice frontend" Sometimes that's all you need to create a real business... "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 :-)