anjc

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by anjc 6y ago
Hm, not sure. We can easily resolve the structural detail within each grid, so does our brain just interpolate for colour? I wonder would a green grid on the sky make us perceive a green sky, or do we interpolate it here because we know the
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by anjc 6y ago
Well, it is B&W. The N here is so large that you can easily resolve the pixels that should be B&W, yet they aren't.
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by anjc 6y ago
Well why don't we see a B&W image with coloured lines on it? Rather we see a coloured image with coloured lines on it. It's pretty spooky to me. It's interesting zooming in, until the point that your brains perceives the
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by anjc 6y ago
You and everybody replying to you are making the same baffling mistake, i.e., assuming that technical/song writing ability/education = star. If you want technical ability, there are 8 year olds on YouTube with better chops than EV
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by anjc 6y ago
F1 isn't Indycar. The headline doesn't mentioned Indycar.
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by anjc 6y ago
This is what demo papers are for. Submit to a demo track, and don't take negative reviews personally :)
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by anjc 6y ago
> Your intended audience will understand a point, and want you to go further. But the referees are often not the intended audience. How do you know this? Like both you and OP, I've had my writing misinterpreted by reviewers. These r
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by anjc 6y ago
Although I sympathize with the author, I believe most academics are aware of/experienced all these issues after their first year of PhD. Becoming a professor these days is hyper competitive, you don't accidentally become a prof, o
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by anjc 6y ago
Perhaps it's a regional thing then, in my country 2x4's aren't exactly cheap if you're buying enough to build an e.g. woodworking bench, and you need a planer even if they're pre-planed. I'm currently planning
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by anjc 6y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges, if you're building a desk out of some 2x4s and a spare chunk of wood, and comparing that to $1000 products. Undoubtedly the manufactured products are lighter, more robust, and made from better
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by anjc 6y ago
> It's less expensive than pre-made furniture. Not a chance. Perhaps if you live in the Pacific Northwest, but outside of certain regions wood can be very very expensive.
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by anjc 6y ago
> I could definately replicate what this guy did if I had the time and money Perhaps you can but for anyone else reading, this is a big and complicated project. Far beyond the capabilities of an enthusiastic/studious beginner. Your
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by anjc 6y ago
Wood's expensive. High quality exotic wood can be very expensive. Someone making their first pieces of furniture will likely (should) be using MDF or pine, same as an Ikea item, but will still be paying more just for the materials than
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by anjc 6y ago
Well you're an extreme outlier. Typically people want age-appropriate content in a language that they speak, or, which at least has subtitles. As you point out, if this is your preference then you can use search functionalities for thi
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by anjc 6y ago
Surely you can see that, as you are unable to speak every language in the world, yet you understand all media presented to you, that ALL of your media is already implicitly sorted by geography and language? If e.g. YouTube recommended you t
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by anjc 6y ago
> I'm not sure why anyone would want a recommendation system that looks for age/gender/race as that seems fairly irrelevant to interesting content You can't understand how age/gender/race is important for fi
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by anjc 6y ago
> ... where algorithms are culture dependent and where not. Low level algorithms like quicksort definitely are not ... Aside on this. In a 1st year CS class I was surprised to learn that half the class had one method to count the number
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by anjc 6y ago
> You can do the same thing with comments that he claims TT does with video (dwell time threshold feature) >I don't work at Twitter, but I doubt that matters very much. >Also regarding "negative sentiment" feedback f
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by anjc 6y ago
RecSys 2016 Covington, Paul, Jay Adams, and Emre Sargin. "Deep neural networks for youtube recommendations." Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on recommender systems. 2016. Nvidia furthermore implemented/released it for
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by anjc 6y ago
I'm sorry I don't know how to turn it on. When I go to youtube.com, at the top it has about 15 categories that it has gleaned from my use (e.g. Guitar, Flight Simulators), some of which I'm surprised it learned, as well as Al
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by anjc 6y ago
> Then, if a user watches a single video on a topic outside of their usual interest scope, YouTube replaces any semi-relevant recommendations with with that new category, regardless of if the user is actually interested in the topic. Tha
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by anjc 6y ago
This criticism shouldn't apply anymore. They predict categories you like and you can select a category. The 'All' page should be a mix of all categories, not just cat videos. Amazon on the other hand...
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by anjc 6y ago
> Because YouTube doesn't care what you want--YouTube cares what it can monetize. > You are the product, not the customer. > Once you internalize that, stuff that Google does makes sense. They published their algorithm. They r
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by anjc 6y ago
If they used to recommend a good mix of content, what do you feel is the issue with recommendations now? Not enough variety? Not enough relevance?
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by anjc 6y ago
Since when, do you think? I personally think that they're better than ever. On the other hand, I think they moved to more deep learning approaches over the last 3-5 years (based on their research output at least) so perhaps recommendat
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by anjc 6y ago
If they were only recommending comedy from the same artist you may then have the same issue as another comment, which is that recommendations aren't novel enough. I'd take your point if they only recommended bass videos, but pre
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by anjc 6y ago
I'm always mind-blown reading comment threads like this regarding recommendation, with people annoyed that explicit feedback helps recommenders, or exasperated that they're recommended one item that they haven't approved whil
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by anjc 6y ago
> "use YouTube infrequently" > "binging random content" gets recommended random popular content > "why are recommendations so bad" They can't read your mind, you know
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by anjc 6y ago
Yep. They've had version control for at least a decade, diff'ing also, by way of Compare. I'm also not sure why people are fascinated with using git here. It's weird seeing all of the complex solutions in this thread f
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by anjc 6y ago
> Its led to years of teenagers with no training putting things on their cars Untrained people fiddling with their cars didn't start with The Fast and the Furious! If anything, this era marked the beginning of the end of all that.

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