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by brianchu 11y ago
Yep. Berkeley only recently started offering a ML class in 2013. The last time it was offered was 1988-1990, the last AI boom (assuming the course numbers meant the same thing back then).
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Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI(facebook.com)
322 points by brianchu 11y ago|204 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
Gaussian blur is a low-pass filter.
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by brianchu 11y ago
Isn't that what I'm saying though? If you're tied/close going into the endgame, AlphaGo will probably win.
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by brianchu 11y ago
I'm totally uninformed about Go, but by now it seems that unless you're clearly in the lead by the end of the midgame, AlphaGo is going to win, simply because at that point its Monte Carlo Tree Search is going to our-compute you i
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by brianchu 11y ago
For those interested in the "AI threat" discussion, here's an excellent thread on Quora about it with answers from Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, and Pedro Domingos (along with other random opinions): https://www.quora.
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by brianchu 11y ago
I do a little work in machine learning (as an undergrad). Deep learning specifically is dominated by Python and C++ (Python for the interface, C++/CUDA for the implementation). Theano's interface is in Python. Caffe has C++, Pytho
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by brianchu 11y ago
I don't get the complaints here. Most of the complaints about the algorithmic timeline are implementation details, not objections to the concept itself. An algorithmic timeline does not necessarily mean live events are out of order.
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by brianchu 11y ago
That is not an example of how weak our brain is. That is an example of how incredibly intelligent our brain is. If you saw both tables in the real, physical, natural world, because of the effect of perspective, the table on the left is in
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting(theatlantic.com)
5 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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For Now, Self-Driving Cars Still Need Humans(nytimes.com)
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by brianchu 11y ago
I don't see much evidence in that paper that neural networks have similar representations to monkey visual cortex activations (the paper studied monkeys). They merely showed that the neural network representations were predictive of
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A New Thermodynamics Theory of the Origin of Life (2014)(quantamagazine.org)
11 points by brianchu 11y ago|2 comments
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Five tech predictions for 2016(medium.com)
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by brianchu 11y ago
CNNs are not rotation invariant.
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What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement–An Insider’s View(alternet.org)
1 points by brianchu 11y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 11y ago
Most CS programs that I am aware of don't require real analysis. I know Berkeley EECS doesn't, and it's a very rigorous program. Stanford too. I plan on taking it, but only because it shows up in a few esoteric theoretical ma
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by brianchu 11y ago
Honestly, the biggest thing holding back kernels is deep learning (unfortunately?).
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by brianchu 11y ago
In terms of ATS's (Applicant Tracking Systems), I've heard lots of recruiters like lever.co
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by brianchu 11y ago
Bit of a nitpick, really, but you want a basis, not necessarily just a set of eigenvectors.
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by brianchu 11y ago
I'm a CS student and most students I know dislike whiteboarding too (and by extension many, if not most, YC startup employees do too). But I'm pretty okay at them now, having had lots of practice. The key advantage for students I
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by brianchu 11y ago
There's a glaring error, which makes me doubt the credibility of the rest of the article. Mary Meeker joined KPCB as a partner, not an analyst ( huge difference). And this was 5 years ago, so it's old news.
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Why root for Groupon?(medium.com)
2 points by brianchu 11y ago|0 comments
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Passing the Baton(amplab.cs.berkeley.edu)
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Fidelity Writes Down Snapchat Investment(techcrunch.com)
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by brianchu 11y ago
According to: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks , it's an NVIDIA TitanX (12GB GPU memory), which is pretty much the top of the line GPU for training neural nets. From my limited experience, most deep le
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Yahoo Hires McKinsey to Mull Reorg, as Mayer Demands Exec Pledge to Stay(recode.net)
7 points by brianchu 11y ago|4 comments
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Q&A with the Black Twitter Engineer Who Left Over Diversity Problems(npr.org)
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Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating(nytimes.com)
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by brianchu 11y ago
I would be very surprised if YC was doing any sophisticated machine learning on HN or even their portfolio. I'm sure they have nice Excel spreadsheets on their finances and portfolio metrics, maybe a linear regression or two. This sh

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