botman

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by botman 12y ago
As a long-time LaTeX user, I'm a little disappointed to read these results, but I fully believe them. I've spent countless hours fighting against the layout algorithm to get images to go in the right place, among other frustrating
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by botman 12y ago
Front page of NYT? Must be a slow news day... Interesting collection of stories, though.
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by botman 12y ago
It's worth noting that embryo selection might be coming really soon http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-ar... and that will have a much bigger influence on the evolution of human in
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by botman 12y ago
I think your criticisms are mostly misplaced. - Re: "buzzwords...references": I don't see any buzzwords, in fact the word "deep" doesn't even appear in the text. Regarding references, A typical conference paper
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by botman 12y ago
Another robot researcher agrees. Classifying images is totally different from enabling a robot to perform a difficult task. Object recognition is a supervised learning problem, mapping image -> vector of probabilities. Robotic manipulati
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by botman 12y ago
"typical incarnations of which consist of over 100 layers with a maximum depth of over 20 parameter layers)" Anyone know exactly what that means? I'm guessing that that there are 100 layers total, 20 of which have tunable par
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by botman 12y ago
About a year ago, I got to play with a UBR-1 prototype. It seemed to be very well-designed. It was smaller and lighter and the PR2 and had some design improvements. For example, the base was more maneuverable, and the torso and grippers wer
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Unbounded Robotics to Shut Down Due to Willow Garage Spin-Off Agreement(spectrum.ieee.org)
52 points by botman 12y ago|7 comments