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by argonaut 10y ago
Here's a problem: you can argue that Gabor filters arise because we design neural nets to encourage them . Gabor filters mostly arise in CNN or things otherwise regularized to be like CNNs. Convolutional layers are a form of regulariz
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by argonaut 10y ago
To be fair, DeepMind spent 2 years with millions of resources and a whole team of researchers and programmers on Go. I'm pretty sure they could solve Montezuma's Revenge in less than a year with the same resources (but there'
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by argonaut 10y ago
The reddit r/machinelearning subreddit has generally higher quality technical discussion than HN, although kastnerkyle's comment is really great.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You're reading too much into the names. FB AI Research works on ML/AI research . Applied ML works on ML/AI application . Both work on ML and AI.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Yes, and all of that just shows he isn't perfect. But Tony Fadell will have no problem raising hundreds of millions for his next venture, joining a VC firm, or joining another company as a C-level executive.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Students are told about the honor codes. It's not something you have to look up. Grade inflation has nothing to do with cheating - that's just more FUD. If a class curves to a B, and everyone cheats, the average grade is still a B
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by argonaut 10y ago
By all objective measures he did a phenomenal job at Nest. He started and sold it for $3.2B. The fact that he failed to continue to be successful post-acquisition, is hardly a "poor" overall record.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You do not need to store vertices with equal value. Simplex is basically a greedy iterative algorithm - you keep moving forwards.
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by argonaut 10y ago
I've never heard about that, and I graduated from a top college fairly recently, which leads me to believe this is not true of most schools.
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by argonaut 10y ago
You're implying this isn't done already at universities. In literally every single class in university, the professor would spend lecture time talking about cheating, and it was always spelled out in the syllabus.
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by argonaut 10y ago
This does not prove that true crime rates are equal . That is an extremely strong claim to make. I agree the point about being more likely to be arrested, but that hardly leads us to believe therefore that the true rates are equal.
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by argonaut 10y ago
One will note that you didn't respond to my first point, which is that your actual argument (about unequal resources devoted to policing cheating) is wrong. So if you are going to argue the point that there is bias against foreign-soun
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by argonaut 10y ago
This makes no sense. At a given university, foreign and domestic students go to the same university and take the same classes. At best, you might argue bias with foreign-sounding names, but that would be an extraordinary claim to make a
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by argonaut 10y ago
This would be relevant if foreign students were more likely to be poor than domestic students. But that's not the case. If anything, they are more likely to be better-off (the poor students, unless on a scholarship - which US public un
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by argonaut 10y ago
This work is outdated. More recent work shows that deep nets actually do need to be deep.
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by argonaut 10y ago
I disagree. In fact, the topic of whether or not HN is biased towards YC / favors YC falls into the endlessly debated category.
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by argonaut 10y ago
If it they managed to make a constitutional amendment for basic income, I do think it would be virtually impossible to repeal, which is why I mentioned that would be an exception.
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by argonaut 10y ago
As a side note, the reality is that even if basic income were instituted nationwide, politics means that it is never actually guaranteed - it could be repealed at any time, even if unlikely. So there will always be that twinge of uncertai
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by argonaut 10y ago
The truth of the matter is that there are certain topics that heavily follow the HN hivemind, and there are certain topics that are highly polarized and endlessly debated. Hivemind example: remote work is good and companies that refuse to d
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by argonaut 10y ago
jbob2000 makes the error of being too vague (didn't define awareness). You're making the error of being too specific. Under no suitable definition of awareness do GANs exhibit awareness. They are a very specific and narrow statist
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by argonaut 10y ago
For machine learning. For solving problems. What else? A Fourier series can model pretty much any function. Doesn't mean it's a good model for your problem.
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by argonaut 10y ago
To be fair, you haven't defined awareness in any meaningful way. Concepts are just coded by specific patterns of neural firings - there is no reason a neural net can't theoretically also code concepts meaningfully (of course, unde
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by argonaut 10y ago
If you're referring to backprop, no. It's an open research question to characterize what/how a neural net is learning during backprop (aside from trivial statements like "optimizing a nonconvex function" etc.)
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by argonaut 10y ago
You missed my point entirely. My point is that showing something is a universal function approximator indicates nothing about whether that method is a good method in general. Necessary but not sufficient. kNN is one of the dumbest/simp
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by argonaut 10y ago
You know, k nearest neighbors is also a universal function approximator. Universal function approximation is a red herring.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Not sure why this is so highly upvoted. Nobody is questioning that deep networks work better than shallow ones, and there is a good understanding in academia of why (that fits with most lay people's intuition). I hardly consider that t
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by argonaut 10y ago
The copernican prior is totally speculative.
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by argonaut 10y ago
The Berkeley extension classes you link to seem to be separate, not identical versions of the Berkeley courses, so I think there's a question mark with respect to whether they are quality courses.
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by argonaut 10y ago
Let's not ignore that Gawker had top lawyers too. Remember, it's really the $140 million verdict that's going to kill Gawker. Not the legal fees which I'm sure are well under $10 million (and Hogan - maybe Thiel? - would
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by argonaut 10y ago
The reason many people don't think there is a better way is because this case involves two opposing forces of the same principle , free speech. On one hand, media outlets should ideally feel un-intimidated in publishing stories. On th

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