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Attention in neural networks and how to use it(akosiorek.github.io)
2 points by atroyn 9y ago|0 comments
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LSD Hallucinations: When Computer Vision Goes Wrong(troynikov.io)
4 points by atroyn 9y ago|1 comments
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by atroyn 9y ago
> That's it's entire goal: that everyone will be able to own all their own content instead of data being stuck in BookFace silos. How is this any different to just running your own site?
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by atroyn 9y ago
The WARR team went out and got sponsorship on their own, not through the university.
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by atroyn 9y ago
Lab space is provided by TUM makerspace, which is a separate commercial venture, affiliated with but organizationally separate from the university. I posted to distinguish the TUM team from for example Swissloop, who receive direct funding
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by atroyn 9y ago
The students went out and got their own sponsorship from external bodies. The university provides no money.
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by atroyn 9y ago
Greetings from your friends at TUfast Driverless :)
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by atroyn 9y ago
I'm sure. They are officially incorporated under the umbrella WARR organization which also has the rocketry and satellite student projects of the TUM, but doesn't receive any funding either. They basically have financial complianc
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by atroyn 9y ago
Important to note, the WARR team doesn't receive any funding or direct support from the university - not even professors or Ph.D's. This is a 100% student created and run initiative
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by atroyn 9y ago
Game programmers are generally quite well regarded in 'physical computing' disciplines, because there's so many moving parts and edge cases to take care of - just like hardware. Do a couple of real embedded projects for yours
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by atroyn 9y ago
But Pinterest users don't pay anything to make collections?
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by atroyn 9y ago
Who is the target customer for this feature? Do I pay to make collections, to view them, or both? If I have to pay to view them, what would make me want to do that? If I have to pay to make them, why would I want to?
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by atroyn 9y ago
There are strong critics of free bookmarking sites (@Pinboard in particular). Their main criticism is that without a revenue model, users will eventually lose their bookmarks. What's your plan?
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by atroyn 9y ago
Thanks a lot for your insight! I'm glad the US military takes Software licensing seriously - this means spending time on this may actually be valuable. I don't want to go in to my specific objections because they're not mater
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by atroyn 9y ago
No, I would prefer that the license not allow it.
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by atroyn 9y ago
I do want to prevent the military from using it, but I am also aware that militaries frequently do illegal things, and I don't have the resources to take them to task over it. I am a signatory to the autonomous weapons non-proliferatio
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by atroyn 9y ago
Thanks!
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by atroyn 9y ago
Thanks! This might be a good starting point.
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by atroyn 9y ago
Very interesting, and in more or less the vein I'm after.
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Ask HN: Software licensing excluding military use?
59 points by atroyn 9y ago|71 comments
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by atroyn 9y ago
> Even supposing such systems exist They do, I gave examples. > Conflating simulation with real time I am not talking about real time, only about finite time for any Turing machine. No matter how fast you make your machine, I can ask
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by atroyn 9y ago
> There's frankly little reason to believe the brain is special in any particular way, simply complex and layered. Which is precisely the point I'm making. I deliberately avoided any woo about non-determinism, biology, or consc
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by atroyn 9y ago
But what characterizes those other arrangements of matter? What is their energy consumption? What are their switching speeds? Can cognition grow unbounded, and if so, why? Can any brain improve on its own process of cognition? If other arra
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by atroyn 9y ago
This says nothing about the time evolution of the state space of a system, only that the entropy as it relates to _the current state of the system_ is bounded - indeed the bound is on the entropy of a finite volume of fixed energy. Even if
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by atroyn 9y ago
I don't agree with your assertion that humans can't do that. Whether or not human cognition is a superset of computation is an unanswered question. That aside, even if human cognition is a computable function, there are no guarant
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by atroyn 9y ago
I came to my conclusion independently by observing that computing the time evolution of most physical systems to arbitrary precision is impossible in finite time. More formally, the state space grows much much faster than polynomial time. F
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by atroyn 9y ago
This is the wrong way around. It's possible for a physical system to perform computation. It's not necessarily true that all physical systems can be emulated by computation.
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by atroyn 9y ago
Dealing with poorly behaved surfaces (specular, luminous, reflective, deformity) in 3D reconstruction. Figuring out human interaction intent from force measurements for cooperating with a robot in a collaborative task (moving a table togeth
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by atroyn 9y ago
This is a whole other set of problems, which I agree will only get worse. However they don't really represent the threat Musk discusses - superhuman / superintelligent paperclip maximizers and other Yudkowskian nonsense.
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by atroyn 9y ago
It's unclear that it's even possible to emulate general intelligence by computable functions, let alone that it's possible to improve it to superhuman capacity. There are clear and present threats to civilization needing to b

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