MarkMMullin

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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I rest my case :-)
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Nice catch - I was completely oblivious to it till you pointed it out, and it was an accident, I swear! Lazarus Long says punsters and practical jokers get keelhauled or staked out on anthills :-( That's no fun
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Slick idea - I'd be concerned tho that, given the semi normal rough distribution of heat on the face (there's a reason head wounds bleed so much) that this attempt to game the system would be easily detected as gaming the system.
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Probably - its an arms race after all - at this time for the stupider systems the following steps can confuse them 1 - use makeup techniques to make the nose fade into the face and don't let it get a profile view - noses are very impor
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
If the technology just stayed at facial recognition, maybe - I work on stereoscopic vision, so you'd have to change your head geometry too for my cameras if you're in parallax range..... and we're getting to the point of bei
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
The "touch" button thing was a big deal back then - Apple and others kept reminding devs that is was not a good idea to tell users to "hit" keys as sometimes this was taken a little too literally :-)
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
What is interesting (thus far) to the responses is that no author of a paper has shown up going 'you're stealing my work' - nor is any money gathered by most of these organizations returned to research - myself, I've al
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I agree on the assessment of the article, however not with the conclusion that blockchain is driving this market alone - its certainly there, but I don't know any ML practitioner who answers 'how many gpu's' with anythin
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
OK, that was fun - dug up an old quote from the Ithaca Intersystems linker manual I always loved (quote, not manual) -- "This program is dedicated to and named after a good friend, Link Hogthrob. "
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
We should do our best to get it back into port - part of the whole mess is that the name AI implies things about ML systems that simply aren't true - as a side note, we should also probably start using the word tensor more accurately,
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I ask it sometimes too - my favorite response opened with 'you want maintainability or speed' So I picked speed. They immediately set the first branch at mod 3 with the obvious justification - hired on the spot :-)
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Huh - I do ML and a lot of bit twiddling with trained feature detector outputs - intake goes into a stage, feature detectors light up, and feature combos get fed to subsequent input via lots of bit banging - can't afford for it to be
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
You want to proceed carefully with a Pi Zero - the chip is an ARMv6, so you'll end up building more things and you loose some optimization - you might not like the performance :-(
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
It reminded me of this gem from the same author -- http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
As another practitioner, I wholeheartedly agree - most of what is called AI today is ML, and thats basically pattern recognition via boundary relaxation solutions - it is necessary for "AI" but not sufficient - BUT - my problem w
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I'm wondering if the work on adversarial systems, this one being quite interesting, can help us with our giant bugaboo of "OMG, its overfitted :-(" Right now we model, train, test, fail, and start all over again, and usuall
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
To me as well - first it starts with "I don't want to lose any of my soldiers but I must be able to kill theirs" and then more and more questions about machine autonomy keep popping up and finally we've got machines capa
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Check out stuff that Betrand Meyer, Eiffels dad, has written - he pretty much beat hell out of software mishaps to show how he'd tried to compensate for those issues in Eiffel. -- here's one of the best known -- https:/&#x2
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Hmmm - I've always thought you could see the effect of the vertical stack every time you were out for a walk and found yourself four feet in the air with your brain going "My bad dude - stick, not a snake "- I only read the
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
We're completely invaded in NH - best trick I've learned is leave a shallow pan of water in kitchen with desk light shining on it all nite - rinse and repeat every day :-(
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Yeah, if what Quinn says comes as any great surprise to you, well, that's just sad. Pity too, she can be funny as hell - and I'd have probably signed up for NYT instead of just going in anon
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
wowzers - cool - I learned it in the early '80s from a guy who taught me - remembering some weird computers that usta be lying about, not at all surprised to see the barb directed at univac then - I believe it was aimed at Sperry in
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
The NYT shows an ever more feeble understanding of brand and reputation in this age - Quinn's writing and public commentary really shouldn't come as a surprise to them, any more than going to a talk by Brenda Laurel and having he
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Oh dear god yes -- https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 Brilliant piece, spot on
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
The classic joke in the '80s was that a systran project meant to translate Russian into English wasn't too good outside of purely technical work - The proverb 'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak' became 'Th
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Agree 100% if you're implying Common LISP/CLOS as the most underrated.... it's fun to show people examples from the Art of the Metaobject Protocol and watch their heads explode :-)
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
I simply must... https://toggl.com/programming-princess
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Glad to see you in this space Terrance! Been a long time since the traveling parser revival and beer tasting festival!
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
Having a tech background does allow you to better understand what is going on and how it might provide value - conversely, a finance background is probably a good thing to have if you're looking at the IPO for a B2B financial services
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by MarkMMullin 9y ago
There's a reason we put bindings on books - to protect them - I know what some of my older math books from the '80s look like, and if they'd been spine in, they'd be dead - to me this translates to 'books are thin

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