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by aab0 10y ago
The Democratic party targeting university students, and the Republican party trying voter-suppression efforts aimed at students (forbidding voting at the university where one lives, requiring photo IDs & banning college IDs as photo IDs
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by aab0 10y ago
That raises as many questions as it answers. Why FPGAs and not GPUs which can run just about any deep neural network but usually faster and more efficiently?
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by aab0 10y ago
Technically, it's called 'domain drop catching': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_drop_catching Common service, so I wonder how park.io is so successful.
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by aab0 10y ago
The disparity doesn't go away if you use victimization surveys.
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by aab0 10y ago
This is not necessarily that surprising. Hinton's 'dark knowledge' (not cited in the paper) already showed that a remarkable amount of information is hidden in the classification probabilities emitted by a model, and that one
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by aab0 10y ago
I quipped the other day after reading it, 'In retrospect, training the first RL agents on Doom may not have been the best idea.'
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by aab0 10y ago
All the anecdotes I've seen of being addicted to nicotine gum or patches have been of former smokers who were using them to try to quit. That's not necessarily nicotine being addictive so much as their pre-existing tobacco addicti
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by aab0 10y ago
Probably. You can add in 'speaker' as a bit of metadata to the samples (this is what is meant by 'conditioning on') and teach it to speak like different people, so if you have a diverse sample of speakers and you add in
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by aab0 10y ago
"The researchers found that attempting to move at a superhuman pace (eg one action every frame), resulted in a subpar performance." Moving at extremely fine-grained timesteps can make learning much more difficult, because now a re
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by aab0 10y ago
They're already sold as pets. Reportedly they're pretty good pets if you don't mind the price tag.
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by aab0 10y ago
Just follow the WP links. "Researchers, interested organizations or individuals are welcome to use our scientific data library for legitimate research endeavours. This data is available free of charge, however we do ask that a memoran
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by aab0 10y ago
For a 4x boost, I imagine Tensorflow and Torch will get support shortly after the GPUs start shipping in real quantities.
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by aab0 10y ago
The argument is also bogus from the pro-Russian perspective: if this is 'legalized cheating' and so awful and hypocritical, why weren't the Russians doing it, much less resorting to stealing urine samples? They have doctors w
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by aab0 10y ago
It's not a true power-law (assuming it's not a lognormal). It's truncated by the fact that anyone considering a startup would never have earned more than the world GDP, or more specifically, the peak tech market cap to date (
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by aab0 10y ago
Sounds like he's already been hit where it hurts. If his fortune is ~$3b and the stockpile is ~$6b, then he's losing a ton of money every day to interest and opportunity cost and shipping it back to Vietnam and however much the pr
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by aab0 10y ago
90 minutes of computation for 1 second of audio on DeepMind's GPUs: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/773968758519902208 That's a lot of cranks of Moore's law. Better hope for considerable algorit
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by aab0 10y ago
This Bloomberg article adds nothing, and is less informative & interesting (doesn't have the audio samples for starters) than the original DeepMind blog post, and shouldn't be on the front page.
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by aab0 10y ago
Hail Helix!
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by aab0 10y ago
> Karpathy is pretty famous for his blogging and open software. Yes, he's famous for that, but that didn't earn him his PhD nor would it have gotten him tenure. As he remarks about his teaching of his course, him doing a good j
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by aab0 10y ago
All valid advice, but god is some of it depressing. Papers can be evaluated by flipping through and looking for pretty graphs and equations. Incremental, replication, or comparison work is discouraged. Never include the dead ends or what di
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by aab0 10y ago
This is a longitudinal study, not a cross-sectional one; attrition can be measured. You should also provide some evidence for the idea that hordes of high-IQ people are going homeless and committing suicide, as opposed to occasional ones wi
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by aab0 10y ago
I don't think the students at Johns Hopkins are the usual sort of 20-29yos who would knock up a teen girl. And inasmuch as SMPY has been running for so many decades and has thousands of participants, if 10 or 20% of the participants we
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by aab0 10y ago
"Even the quote you cite suggests that the total amount of variance accounted for was about 19%, which isn't too shabby by any means, but is also very crude when you think about implications for real-world consequences." This
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by aab0 10y ago
"How many "pioneering mathematicians" are not one-percenters? If the answer is "99%", then there's no bias in favor of those who do well on the SAT. The article doesn't give that information." The art
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by aab0 10y ago
"Gifted children are "gifted" with a laser focus on the unusual things that they find fun - math, music, what-have-you. They spend countless hours playing with numbers or with music, while little Johnny is playing with a ball
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by aab0 10y ago
You forgot the rest of that quote: "...based on the same method of intensive analysis—brute force, basically—that Deep Blue employed for chess."
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by aab0 10y ago
I've wondered the same thing. I haven't noted any large improvements in Google Translate despite the RNNs demonstrating big gains for at least 3 years now. However, in all the public comments by Googlers I've read, I'm n
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by aab0 10y ago
"Cucumber grading has been automated for years. Look on YouTube for automated cucumber grading systems.[1][2] There are many competing vendors. The commercial machines process their video locally and don't need "the cloud&quo
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by aab0 10y ago
It's interesting trying to compare this to Long Now. The article mentions his 'Double Negative' from ~1970 and that it's already badly decayed (a look on Google Maps supports this) after barely 40 years. It doesn't
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by aab0 10y ago
Academic journals* rarely host large datasets (it's fairly unusual to even see some PDF supplements with vital summaries or results), and if you want to share data >10MB, you're mostly stuck doing it yourself through your own w

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