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by chriskanan 12y ago
People often recommend nuts and jerky, but I don't find them to be satisfying and I'm hungry again fairly soon. For my daily snack at work, I really like Chocolate Brownie Quest Nutrition Bars. They are high in fiber, and if you e
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by chriskanan 12y ago
Some of the stuff the article claims sounds a bit fishy: "The more alcohol a society consumes, the fewer alcohol-related problems and alcohol-related deaths (including cirrhosis) it has." That said, there have been quite a few stu
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Popups: The Internet's Original Sin(m.theatlantic.com)
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This isn't really face recognition, this is face verification. In computer vision, face recognition usually means tell me who this person is (in psychology it means "have you seen this person before?"). Face verification give
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Europa Ice Drilling Robot Tested in Alaska(newscientist.com)
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Computer vision researchers are starting to work on the food calorie counting problem. See this video demo from SRI International: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH2c_F6YB-A Related information: http://www.psfk.
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Even the Gorillas and Bears in Our Zoos Are Hooked on Prozac(wired.com)
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Sure, I agree with you that there is more to vision than ImageNet (and many-category object recognition), and that's why I indicated I'm looking for other computer vision problems to work on that I think I can solve. Incidentally,
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by chriskanan 12y ago
This is a duplicate of this earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8031546
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As an academic researcher in object recognition, I'm starting to wonder if I can still make significant contributions in this area, given that I'm competing with larger teams with far greater resources at Google, Microsoft, etc. F
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by chriskanan 12y ago
First, the article mentions that Facebook does have multiple levels of internal oversight. I really don't think this kind of research can be externally regulated, and attempting to do so would just discourage publication of the finding
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by chriskanan 12y ago
In this case, punishing Facebook is less likely to halt this kind of experimentation than it is to halt publication of the experiments.
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by chriskanan 12y ago
After watching the robots move ultra-slowly during the Trials, I'm very happy that they are putting more time constraints on the tasks. Force the robots to be more autonomous, e.g., giving them the instruction "open the door"
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D-Wave's Quantum Computer Runs No Faster than a Normal One(news.sciencemag.org)
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China already has numerous "ghost cities" that nobody lives in, so this project just seems like an especially environmentally dangerous jobs program: http://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-worlds-largest-ghost-city-...
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Uber Driver Median Income in NYC Is Nearly $100,000(entrepreneur.com)
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Can the Nervous System Be Hacked?(nytimes.com)
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Microbial stowaways to Mars identified(nature.com)
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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Making 'Progress' Toward Mars Colony(space.com)
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by chriskanan 12y ago
I think Andrew had already severed his official ties with Google when he started Coursera, since he was probably the person to recommend Google hire Geoff Hinton to replace him (see [1]). If Andrew had returned to Google, I don't think
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by chriskanan 12y ago
Andrew Ng on why he decided to leave his day-to-day responsibilities at Coursera for Baidu: http://blog.coursera.org/post/85921942887/a-personal-message...
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by chriskanan 12y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7756288
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by chriskanan 12y ago
A more detailed article by MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527301/chinese-search-g...
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Baidu Hires Andrew Ng(technologyreview.com)
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NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts on Missions to Deep Space(motherboard.vice.com)
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by chriskanan 13y ago
The Gates Foundation is to exhaust all of its funds within 20 years after Bill and Melinda's deaths [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...
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by chriskanan 13y ago
A paper posted on arxiv a few days ago by Fan et al. claims to have a similar level of accuracy (97.3% on LFW): http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.2802.pdf Both methods use deep neural networks, but have a lot of differences, e