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by argonaut 10y ago
It seems we are in agreement? The Chinese grad students (who are presumably the best students, since the western universities are the best for CS) that make it to the US stay there.
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by argonaut 10y ago
My own personal experience with research at a first-ranked CS uni; which is no more or less valid than frisco's anecdote ;)
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by argonaut 10y ago
Sure, but not the best talent. In fact Baidu got a pretty bad rep for cheating in ImageNet.
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by argonaut 10y ago
This doesn't mean anything. Most of those (the good ones, at least) are Chinese grad students at western universities. The cream of the crop are grad students at American universities (or Montreal). Most would jump at a chance to work
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by argonaut 10y ago
We are. SLAM, LAM, same thing as far as building a 3d model of your environment is concerned.
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by argonaut 10y ago
No you can't. Have you tried it? Firstly, the state of the art (which is not deep learning based) still has trouble when the camera doesn't turn/swivel a lot (e.g. it has trouble when the camera is just moving straight). An
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by argonaut 10y ago
Would you rather work for a company that has their engineers actively contribute to open source, or a company where all of your code is private?
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes. The problem of SLAM from LIDAR, GPS / IMU data (which are cheap sensors), and pre-recorded maps was solved years ago.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You don't need LIDAR for self driving cars. You also don't need megawatts of power to play top-level Go: humans do it with a few tens of watts of energy. Yet Google needed ~megawatts of energy to run AlphaGo on their massive s
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by argonaut 10y ago
There is a certain irony in saying we should believe in Kurzweil just because his n=1 predictions came true. (Statisticians often deride machine learning people for having a poor understanding of statistics).
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by argonaut 10y ago
If accurate this would be evidence that the NHTSA isn't very stringent, which would actually make Hotz's self driving project seem even worse.
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by argonaut 10y ago
"Our source said that Fitbit is now paying between $34 and $40 million for the company and is 'barely covering their debts.'" After paying debt and preferred shareholders, I won't be surprised if the founders and em
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by argonaut 10y ago
On the contrary, I think there is a real question over whether AlphaGo would be able to beat a group of 3-5 tier-1 Go players (e.g. ~top 10 rankings players) who were allowed to write things down on paper, discuss, use whiteboards, use sepa
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by argonaut 10y ago
It does constitute a valid fact check. It is ridiculous to claim otherwise. Claim: EdiX is a crazy pedophile Fact-check: This is just random speculation and there is no evidence. By your standards an actual fact-check would need to cite tes
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by argonaut 10y ago
No, many fact check websites (such as Snopes) will debunk conspiracy theories by simply saying "there is no evidence to support the theory, it's just wild speculation." This is a perfectly valid fact check.
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by argonaut 10y ago
* no credibility with a large portion of liberals and conservatives after the last election Citation needed that people think the NYTimes is lying (as opposed to selectively reporting). I don't dispute some conservatives believe th
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by argonaut 10y ago
No. There are actual voters that believe(d) this [1]. It's trolling but it needs to be addressed. [1] https://twitter.com/ch402/status/796409197411713024
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by argonaut 10y ago
That's the point. This is only getting attention because it's OpenAI.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You're misreading the meaning of "fully aligned." If you read the 3 paragraphs preceding that sentence, the authors are referring to organization incentives being "aligned."
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by argonaut 10y ago
I get that AI is all the rage right now. But this is an information-thin Microsoft press release, if not outright ad, with the OpenAI stamp on it. These things really should not be on the front page.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Have you been in a new relationship recently? Anecdotally it's pretty common for a couple to send pictures to one another of their faces through Snapchat - just nice to see each other and see what each other is doing. This is a classic
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by argonaut 10y ago
I was talking about deep learning. The comment I was replying to was making the specific problem seem as if it were easy. Certainly there may one day be a classification technique that does what you say will do. But you may as well have sai
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by argonaut 10y ago
You are again mistaking "American liberalism" with "neoliberalism." You are correct that economic globalization is part of "neoliberalism", but it is not part of "American liberalism." Now, you are ce
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by argonaut 10y ago
You've just described end-to-end-learning (e.g. the data is raw video/camera/radar/sensor data, the labels are steering angles, etc.) No autonomous vehicle manufacturer uses end-to-end learning. The only one to claim t
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by argonaut 10y ago
"it moves at the speed a car moves at, it's in the road, it's overtaking on the right hand lane" is video classification, which is not solved. In fact, at least how you described it (you could probably change the problem
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by argonaut 10y ago
It's unclear if Tesla is building a 3D model or not. For the cameras, at least looking at Mobileeye's demos, it appears not. But Tesla also is using radar - it's unclear whether they're using the radar for just collision
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by argonaut 10y ago
To be clear, though, "American liberalism" is not "neoliberalism" as the article uses the term. Neoliberalism most closely maps to the fiscal (e.g. non-religious, non-populist), Establishment conservatism of America.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Great. Now the problem you've posed is no longer image classification. It's more like video classification or zero-shot classification! (neither of which are close to solved)
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by argonaut 10y ago
That would just be your opinion. It has not been shown. It's still an open research question over what neural nets are actually learning in their intermediate layers. You're going to need large amounts of fine-grained labeled data
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by argonaut 10y ago
Driving has almost nothing to do with image classification. * Humans implicitly perform SLAM (simulataneous localization and mapping). What do I mean? Look around your room. Close your eyes. Visualize the room. As a human, you've built

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