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by agravier 14y ago
You are raising good point, as information before the modern age used to be generally free (freedom + beer), and artists earned on performance.
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by agravier 14y ago
I use SopCast for that, it works well. There is an android client that works very well for me.
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by agravier 14y ago
I agree that emotions reading of primates can turn wrong when taken out of context (even the reading of human facial expression can be confusing out of context). But in context, you'll quickly (and sometimes painfully) learn the meaning of
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by agravier 14y ago
Indeed, but they cry and mourn like humans... Do you really know what your fellow humans think and what their motivations are? The thing that separates us is structured language. I tend to trust the display of emotions more than a long di
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by agravier 14y ago
Indeed, what you say makes sense. _If_ we know how to "cure" those people. That's one big if, but I agree that (in general) society should do all what is possible to understand the human behavior and brain.
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by agravier 14y ago
Although interesting, it's not a particularly new theory. I advise you to read some philosophy. Modern philosophers will agree with you that the concept of free will poses many issues and contradictions. Among those alive, you could consult
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by agravier 14y ago
I see, thanks. And that's a really nice tool, this n-gram viewer. Thanks for the link!
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by agravier 14y ago
(Did I misuse "plethora"? English is not my first language, sorry if I shouldn't use plethora) > How do you know that intelligence cannot be implemented in a mechanism simpler than the biological hardware implementation or simulations t
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by agravier 14y ago
It is possible, but the neurons are actually complex computing units that take a plethora of signals into account: subtle temporal behavior (relative timings of post and pre-synaptic activations), complex chemistry in the cell as well as th
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by agravier 14y ago
I guess it's an economic calculation. Moreover, it would be foolish to assume that consumers are rational agents: I expect that the perceived value and user's attachment to a free tablet would be much lower (again, another study would find
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by agravier 14y ago
Yes, and the aspect ratio seems more square than most phones and than Samsung's current tablets. It's a significant gain too.
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by agravier 14y ago
The revenue is more users. Users are the air inside the Google zeppelin. Long-term users against a tablet "at cost"? A great deal for Google!
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by agravier 14y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure what you want to tell, but regarding monocular SLAM, I attended a thesis defense in my lab (LAAS-CNRS) in 2007 with impressive results on a mobile robot. So I think there are chances that good monocular SLAM algorithms ge
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by agravier 14y ago
Nice concept. I would like to see a similar 2d projection game integrated in an augmented reality game world, probably in a mobile app. It would require the app to have a basic understanding of the 3D structure of the world, but that is not
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by agravier 14y ago
I'm using bento, which keeps backward compatibility with setuptools/distribute, but aims at fixing the traditional Python packaging tools: http://cournape.github.com/Bento/ It is stable and usable.
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by agravier 14y ago
Feature sensitivity is typically hand-crafted only because it's the practical thing to do. Neural nets can easily learn visual features. See the LISSOM neural nets for a good example of self-organized learning of features.
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by agravier 14y ago
Exactly. Regarding your remark about edge detectors: such self-organizing neural nets are organized into hierarchical layers, and early layers' units are going to learn to become detectors of statistically common components of the input ima
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by agravier 14y ago
> BUT the detector built its own categories(!). It's not revolutionary. Clustering algorithms and neural nets are plenty. Really, what differentiates this network is its scale.
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by agravier 14y ago
I say, at that point, let the FSF "reform" software patents.
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by agravier 14y ago
Well, there are cheap unlimited 3G data plans without restriction on the device here in Singapore, and I guess in other countries too. But I guess Apple's biggest market remains the US, right?
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by agravier 14y ago
That's assuming the security models being compared are strict about the things that matter. For instance, I can be very strict about PDFs on your computer: no PDF allowed. If you have addressed the risks posed by other more vulnerable attac
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by agravier 14y ago
> What kind of productive, actionable result can this notification lead to for a regular user? The users may make their account more secure and take more care of their physical security? I don't understand what makes you so upset. I fin
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by agravier 14y ago
In both cases, the potential for change is large. It's the adoption of the concept that will decide if it will change everything or remain a niche thing.
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by agravier 14y ago
You're thinking about maths, logic and algorithmic, abstract disciplines that go nicely with programming, coding, or however you would like to call the physical implementation of the mathematical ideas derived using your pencil. Although yo
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by agravier 14y ago
You are right but it seems that the CEA is an établissement public à caractère industriel, while the ones I cite are établissements publics à caractère scientifique. However, you are right, this distinction seems pretty arbitrary to me, as
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by agravier 14y ago
Some data: Inria is (AFAIK) one of the 3 major public research institutions in France: CNRS (the largest, multiple scientific fields, 26k people), Inria (CS, 4k people), INSERM (Medical, 6k people). There are others, but they are much less
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by agravier 14y ago
Only counting the fatal accidents sounds like a mistake to me. I suspect that in many more instance, lim loss, paraplegy or even just serious material an psychological damage could be avoided by highly reliable automated driving.
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by agravier 14y ago
Would that be for a university assignment, to design your own protocol or for something else?
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by agravier 14y ago
For this kind of bug you should specify your graphics module, GLX setup, etc...
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by agravier 15y ago
I don't remember. (That option is not there)

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