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What all the deep-learning derived advances since 2010? We can do things today that we couldn't dream of in 1996. Think image search on your phone, or auto clos
by juancn 6y ago
What all the deep-learning derived advances since 2010? We can do things today that we couldn't dream of in 1996. Think image search on your phone, or auto close captioning, speech to text, etc.
Heck, at that time, Netflix was theoretically impossible, it wasn't until the h264/mp4 codecs became available that this changed.
Even the cloud technologies completely changed the scale at which a single or few developers can scale software. We no longer need big iron (and the capital expenditure that goes with it) to go big.
We've seen plenty of breakthroughs in the past 25 years, some have not materialized fully yet, others are so magical and unobtrusive that it's hard to notice them.