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Also see 2007s Milk Scanner by Friedrich Kirschner http://www.instructables.com/id/Milkscanner-V1.0/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSrW-wAWZe4
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Geoff Hinton refers to thought vectors performing reasoning by analogy using algebra [1] in his Royal Society Lecture. The other widely reported vector algebras in a semantic space were discovered by Mikolov et al when producing ~300 dimens
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The correspondence of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and the practice of "culture-fit" in Hiring Practices should be a note of caution to growing companies. Over constraining your hiring, ( i.e. the aspect of "culture-f
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> My naïve understanding of deep learning is that it works by finding patterns in the answers, instead of actually solving problems. I think this is quite profound and inspiring. Although perhaps it is only one half of it. Concretely, d
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Perhaps these photos do not 'fit the current narrative' or go against the editorial policy of the news outlets. Ownership of traditional mainstream media is cloistered in few hands and those hands have agendas for editorial policy
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FYI you can make clickable subreddit links by using a subdomain, e.g. : http://financialindependence.reddit.com http://netsec.reddit.com http://rust.reddit.com http://programming.reddit.com
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“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me" Orwell, 1984 - A very sad day, a very poor decision: "Today, the W3C announced that it would publish its DRM standard with no protections and no compromises at all, st
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I live in a limecrete building from 1857, in the Scottish Borders. It is similar to a tower block in minature, a girder frame with cast walls, only 3 stories high - but the rest of the village is all 2 story stone cottages. Innovative techn
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Jason Scott has archived Commander Keen, playable in Browser via DosBox https://archive.org/details/msdos_Commander_Keen_1_-_Maroone... https://archive.org/details/msdos_Commander_Keen_2_-_The_Ear.
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> This is precisely why there was minimal reaction to the Snowden revelations - what revelations? Or perhaps the 1984 Orwellian explanation - fear of surveillance curtails dissent. E.g. perhaps there was minimal reaction because while pe
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Copying behaviour without divining intent can lead to problems such as 'cargo-culting'. Imagine observing a man shaking his leg, first one then the other, then his whole body convulses and twitches - is he dancing ? Absent the kno
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There seems to be no evidence that public money is being spent on national cyber-defense, i.e. counter measures - at least there have been no links suggesting the NSA, CIA or GCHQ are working on patches. This leaves private industry, e.g. M
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It is impossible to conclude this given Brexit was far from the only issue - ending austerity and saving the NHS were big priorities too. This doesn't work so well under the UK's First Past The Post system. If you wanted to get th
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Quite the opposite actually. The UK is a mixed economy, we have both Capitalism and Socialism and we like it - our safety-net welfare state and the NHS save lives everyday. EU membership is a shield for former soviet satellite states to joi
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Yes but not quite. I suggested that the consumer is not forced to use Facebook's user-facing services but would have a choice. > all those groups stayed on Facebook anyway... I don't fully accept your assertion that all these
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Dear Deepmind, as you have retired AlphaGo please open source the dataset of Go games used to train it.
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Facebook is unprecendentedly widely used, global in reach. It has become for many an essential service. Facebook ( in many countries ) is a monopoly, unassailable competitively due to the size of its network. In days of yore, such a huge mo
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Peter Abeel ( OP link author with Igor Mordatch ) explains his groups work [1] as a guest lecturer for Berkeley's cs294-112 Deep Reinforcement Robotics. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4gKhK8Q6mY&list=PLkFD6_40
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Binarisation is not for backpropagation which requires a gradient (binary is a cliff) for the calculus backprop to work - this gradient is provided by the slope of the sigmoid. The OP is only suggesting binarisation for the feedforward use
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I agree, paper is absent from many offices, yet very many business still use some paper. As the amount of businesses and transactions has increased by several orders of magnitude the overall effect is that more paper is being used than ever
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Where too is the once promised paperless office ? IMHO the robo jobpocalypse is as overhyped as the paperpocalypse was in the early 1980's
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Deliberately weaking public security is entirely the wrong approach. Banning encrytion makes the British public more vulnerable not less. And whitelisting all posts and uploads quells the utility of criticism, opinion and opposition. It see
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Togelius is pure mental (in a good OOTB way) his evo-devo HyperNEAT approach to problems intractable to random-walk SGD learning learning leaps over snares and pitfalls, bypasses cul-de-sacs and avoids oubliettes -traversing the whole searc
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"From Bacteria to Bach the evolution of minds" by Daniel Dennet. Should be called How Minds Evolve as Heirarchies of Darwinian Turing Machines ( analagously to Deep Neural Nets (Dennet cites Geoff Hinton and Edinburgh's Andy
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George Hart has .stl files of his mathematical forms on his home page, including a diagonally sliced Menger Sponge with its surprisingly star shaped holes. http://georgehart.com/rp/rp.html
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Analogously Neural Network learning, i.e. learning modeled as a phase transition between disorder and order: “... studies the connection between the highly non-convex loss function of a simple model of the fully-connected feed-forward neura
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The search allows for filtering by licenses. Not all content is reusable, for instance the Art Nouveau Posters [1] has : Free Reuse 62 cc-0, pub domain, cc-by Limited Reuse 142 cc-by-nc-nd, cc-by-bc-sa No Reuse 64
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What is the output of LIDAR ? A point cloud or stripes ? What are the specs of the output of a LIDAR such a Velodyne or this one ?
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Magic! Thanks.
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To register it seems one must be a member of an organisation like a University.
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