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by argonaut 10y ago
He was half-wrong about the specific methods used (I say half-wrong because half of AlphaGo relies on relatively-brute-force MCTS). I don't think this detracts from my point - it is hard for any researcher to predict the exact methods
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by argonaut 10y ago
There is irony in trying to refute my single expert opinion with another single expert opinion (via an article). Reply to below: You're the one asserting that experts thought Go wouldn't be dominated by computers for a long time.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You're going to need citations for your unsubstantiated claims. I've brought forth a highly prominent expert opinion in 2007 that computer Go would be dominant by 2017. And not media reports from present-day that just repeat thi
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by argonaut 10y ago
"I believe that a world-champion-level Go machine can be built within 10 years" - Deep Blue architect, 2007. http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cracking-go
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by argonaut 10y ago
Your analogy doesn't work, because of the existence of Medicaid. And the fact that emergency rooms must treat you no matter what.
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by argonaut 10y ago
I see. Well this is just a standard feature of human interaction. I am always polite and cheerful in tone when I write emails. Even if I'm actually annoyed or bored or tired. It costs me absolutely nothing to use certain words instea
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by argonaut 10y ago
I think you have to put things in the right perspective. The bar for a software engineering internship (for a student) is not that high. The expectations are not that high. When I was in college, I knew several fellow students who were bore
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by argonaut 10y ago
Correct. The term I meant to use was anthropic bias .
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by argonaut 10y ago
The entirety of capitalism is voluntary transactions with expectation of recompense. I'm not sure what your point is.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Agreed with cmrdporcupine. The anthropocentric view is actually the idea that because life exists for us, it therefore isn't that special and is likely to have arisen somewhere else - we are anthropocentrically biased to think that
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by argonaut 10y ago
Except that health insurance is negative expected value. Health insurance companies make tidy profits. And I don't think it's because of negotiating leverage - free consumer choice would do wonders in depressing healthcare price
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by argonaut 10y ago
Nitpick: having a background in machine learning is only slightly relevant to belief on what the mind does. It's having a background in neuroscience that's important.
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by argonaut 10y ago
What I heard is that often the startup feels it isn't ready to launch yet, so it wants to wait before doing a press blitz.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes, they have definitely done that in past demo days (meaning, reporters at Demo Day can't write about these startups).
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by argonaut 10y ago
Did you read the paper? They did not teach it to drive a car. The car just does lane keeping - it doesn't even do turns or lane changes. This is stuff solved 10+ years ago. And even then it only achieves 98% autonomy on lane keeping -
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by argonaut 10y ago
What is the approach, then?
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by argonaut 10y ago
Is this supposed to disprove my point? The fruit flies of AI hardly sounds impressive.
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by argonaut 10y ago
"AI" is a specific term used in academia / research. In that context, ML is most certainly a subset of AI. The fact that many laymen have a different conception of the term is hardly a reason to change all our uses of the ter
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by argonaut 10y ago
I hear this repeated a lot. But I've never actually seen a source from, say, the 90's or the 2000s, actually saying something like "if we're able to classify images better than humans, that's true AI." I suspec
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by argonaut 10y ago
That article has 0 information about Delphi's approach. In fact, the Delphi car has LIDAR too. For all we know they could be taking Google/Uber's approach.
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by argonaut 10y ago
* That we know of. Tesla et al. have not publicized urban driving videos/examples, so I'm assuming they're not capable of it as well as Google, right now.
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by argonaut 10y ago
None of what you said has anything to do with my point that the pre-mapping and then LIDAR-localization approach taken by Google is the only approach shown to work. You're making a point about end-to-end trained ML systems; if anything
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by argonaut 10y ago
None of that changes the fact that they're easy to fool and have some pathological cases (that gambiting alludes to) that most humans consider quite dumb.
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by argonaut 10y ago
"Fundamental architectural failure" is a very bold claim to make given that absolutely no other approaches have worked as well as Google's for urban driving.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes, but unless the framework authors maintain the contribution (possibly unlikely depending on the situation) they will have to keep maintaining those contributions.
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by argonaut 10y ago
> We badly need an alternative to Nvidia/CUDA for deep learning The post I am replying to.
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by argonaut 10y ago
But being drop-in compatible means supporting CUDA or the CPU interface.
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by argonaut 10y ago
The HN demographic is minuscule.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes. (for technical criticism)
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by argonaut 10y ago
How do you know the government has such shitty tech that even a dashboard of metrics isn't a huge improvement for them? My bet is Palantir knows more about their customer's needs than you do.

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