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by bobosha 8y ago
The neuroscience explanation for this is "Predictive coding". These talks are fascinating. related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvAbPtbjxhw&t=1135s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0yVuoATj
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by bobosha 8y ago
No invention occurs in a vacuum, most creations are recombinant effects.The pieces of the puzzle might very well have existed, but Hinton deservedly receives credit for putting the various pieces together for backprop IMHO.
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by bobosha 8y ago
self education. and investing in one's health
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by bobosha 8y ago
Honest question, not a snark. What would you say to the developers who are opposed to H1bs (for supposedly lowering salaries)? Isn't constraining H1b similar to homeowners stifling housing?
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by bobosha 8y ago
Would you apply that reasoning to watching porn, reading Harry Potter novels, bbq-ing etc? Arguably, none of those are "contributing in things that would benefit society".
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Ask HN: Can traditional ML methods improve with feedback loop (a la backprop)?
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Ask HN: How many co-founder breakups did you go through?
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by bobosha 8y ago
This is very interesting and timely to my work, I had been struggling with training a Mobilenet CNN for classification of human emotions ("in the wild"), and struggling to get the model to converge. I tried multiclass to binary mo
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by bobosha 8y ago
"..201 free images". are you planning to add more? Your competitor sites unsplash,pexel etc have many,many more.
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by bobosha 8y ago
Become an entrepreneur. It's MMA for the mind.
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by bobosha 8y ago
India is at least a decade, perhaps two decades, behind China in its development cycle.
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by bobosha 8y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.
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by bobosha 8y ago
There is plenty of work going on along these line: 1. Numenta.com : founded by Jeff Hawkins of Palm Fame 2. Vicarious.com : founded by Dileep George a Numenta alumnus. 3. Joshua Tanenbaum's work at MIT. 4. Eric Horvitz at MSR Also Chec
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by bobosha 8y ago
> When I was a CS prof, many, many years ago, Curious what you do now.
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by bobosha 8y ago
Have heard this quote attributed to einstein.
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by bobosha 8y ago
Kanerva's approach has been championed by Jeff Hawkins' Numenta and Redwood Neuroscience Institute. Numenta uses the terminology Sparse Distributed Representations (SDR). While the theoretical basis seems sound, a practical implem
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by bobosha 8y ago
I think the "all-or-nothing" mind might have something to do with it. Obviously tech has a long way to go to have a replacement house maid bot. But there are several bridge applications: e.g. * a bot that just scrubs dishes and pl
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by bobosha 8y ago
This seems to be a case of a fundamental attribution error. Human interactions are dynamic - a 2 way street if you will - and viewing oneself as separate and removed is self-serving.
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I have been following Jeff's work since 2005, only time will tell if his work will bear fruition. But science will be immensely grateful to Jeff for igniting the passions of several AI researchers during the deepest and darkest of AI w
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by bobosha 8y ago
No matter what you do, you will end up p*ssing off someone. No matter what.
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by bobosha 8y ago
As an interpreted lang developer (Python), hate the small things that can cause major delays, for example, "permissions missing on folder", or "filename_1 not found" (it was actually filename1). Little things that could
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by bobosha 8y ago
"Laughter (and humor) involves the gradual build-up of expectation (a model) followed by a sudden twist or anomaly that entails a change in the model -- but only as long as the new model is non-threatening -- so that there is a deflat
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by bobosha 8y ago
so, who is your target audience? The just getting started developer?
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Government jobs
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by bobosha 8y ago
did he?
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by bobosha 8y ago
Survivorship bias is more apt here.
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by bobosha 8y ago
I think you mean "Programming by Example".
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by bobosha 8y ago
Another theory along these lines is by Jeff Hawkins of Numenta in his book "On Intelligence". He called in the Memory prediction framework.
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by bobosha 8y ago
stripe - hast the best api docs imho
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You should ask their portfolio companies' founders and speak entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur about their experiences working with this VC. Do your due-diligence before getting into bed with anyone.

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