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by Seanny123 9y ago
Nice references! I have some criticism of "Toward an Integration of Deep Learning and Neuroscience" which I've talked to the authors about. I felt like they downplayed the importance of integration between neuroscience and ma
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by Seanny123 9y ago
> I was disappointed to find out that numenta does not really have collaborations with neuroscientists to test or adapt their theories. Their theories in general are not well known to computational neuroscientists either. In that sense,
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by Seanny123 9y ago
Found a paper! Yes, it is better. Maybe not for this specific application and given there's no pre-trained network available, I can totally understand the choice made. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-reco
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by Seanny123 9y ago
I totally thought the state-of-the-art for OCR would be ConvNets, but apparently it isn't? Or are there just not any easily available/usable libraries that do OCR with Convents? Or is the benefit of ConvNets marginal enough to not
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by Seanny123 9y ago
Author of the blog post here. AMA?
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by Seanny123 9y ago
This blog post is now it's own thread if you want to continue the discussion there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14437952
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by Seanny123 9y ago
Biologically plausible back-prop is an ongoing investigation: https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/16269/4397 Basically, I'm waiting until Eric Hunsberger finishes his freaking PhD thesis: http://com
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by Seanny123 9y ago
Is linking to my own blog post in bad taste? Should I link to the website of the book instead?
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by Seanny123 9y ago
How would I phrase a HN thread with this topic without being polemic?
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by Seanny123 9y ago
I wasn't totally convinced by the first linked essay. The primary arguments presented seem to be: - Government funded development only gives the government what it wants while the citizens remain unsatisfied. This is due to a lack of &
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by Seanny123 9y ago
That's literally the thesis of “The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths” by Dr. Mazzucato. I wrote a summary if you're interested: https://medium.com/@seanaubin/book-review-the-ent
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by Seanny123 9y ago
What did your startup do that required that many Raspberry Pis?
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by Seanny123 9y ago
Has anyone done a comparison of this, gazebo, v-rep and mujoco?
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by Seanny123 9y ago
On the topic of that last point, Dr. Mazzucato proposes the alternative of greater licensing of government developed technology as a more realistic alternative in her book "The Entrepreneurial State". I wrote a summary here if you
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by Seanny123 10y ago
If you'd like to engage with me further, how does a company know it needs Kubernetes? If I'm Soylent and I'm processing a few orders a minute, I'm probably safe with a few redundant monoliths. Do I have to be Uber? What&
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by Seanny123 10y ago
I keep seeing Kubernetes appear on HackerNews. Is there a quick thing I can read to explain why everyone's so excited about? I know it's container orchestration, but I'm not sure what people are using it for or what pain poin
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by Seanny123 10y ago
Here's the link to the new topic. I'll let you start the discussion there to make sure I've transferred between contexts correctly. https://forum.nengo.ai/t/the-usefulness-of-neuromorphic-hard...
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by Seanny123 10y ago
(When does this thread get closed by Hacker News as being too old? If/when it does is there somewhere public you want to continue the discussion? If you'd like we can move it to the Nengo forums at forum.nengo.ai) 1. Dammit. I mis
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by Seanny123 10y ago
That's totally fair to want to wait for a comparison until there's actual hardware produced. Especially for comparisons exclusively involving DL models. Make initial "area under the curve" argument was rhetorical and not
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by Seanny123 10y ago
What's the difference between WebGPU and WebCL?
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by Seanny123 10y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to compare the Brainstorm chip to the paper you linked to, since they take different inputs (binary vs. continuous) and they implement different systems (purely feed-forward vs. recurrent dynamic systems). B
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by Seanny123 10y ago
As I mention in the blog post I link to in my comment [1], the idea isn't to replace. As for whether spiking neural nets are true representations of the human brain, I think it comes down to choosing the right level of abstraction for
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by Seanny123 10y ago
We have a lot of result to back it up, as I mention in my comment on the article [1]. However, Turing machines and spiking neural nets have different goals. Spiking neural nets are distributed, analog/continuous, asynchronous and appro
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by Seanny123 10y ago
As I mention in my comment [1], there are already a lot of designs that do work on very real world problems. Also, we've already started mapping CNNs onto the silicon for greater power efficiency. But you're right to say there
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by Seanny123 10y ago
I'm from the lab working on this platform. A lot of people in this thread are claiming that there is no use for these spiking neural nets and I have to disagree. Brainstorm can run Spaun, the world's largest functioning and behavi
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by Seanny123 10y ago
That one is good too!
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by Seanny123 10y ago
My bad, I should have been more specific. The Deep PCA paper shows superior performance not on baseline MNIST, but on the MNIST variations. I also agree that vanilla MNIST is pretty useless for Computer Vision researches and was trying (awk
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by Seanny123 10y ago
Deep PCA: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3606 Deep Forest: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08835
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by Seanny123 10y ago
I feel like this is more an argument against the efficiency of flat (non-hierarchical, not model-based) Deep Reinforcement Learning than an argument for Genetic/Evolutionary Algorithms. As in, if you're not solving a task more eff
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Spiking Neural Nets and Tensorflow: Nengo Deep Learning Released(forum.nengo.ai)
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