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by dimatura 13y ago
I'm not going by a definition. Getting an airtight definition is pretty hard. I'm talking in a fuzzy "You'll know it when you see it" sense. Sure, we get human or even superhuman performance at various constrained t
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by dimatura 13y ago
Is it feasible? Yes, absolutely. Are we anywhere near to 'human-level' AI? No, not by a long shot. How long will it take? Will we ever make it? Very hard to know.
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by dimatura 13y ago
It doesn't look that realistic, but it's way better than the awful tilt-shift effect (or whatever it's called) on instagram. Which, as far as I can tell from my facebook feed, is used 99% of the time as a poor man's boke
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by dimatura 13y ago
I commute on my bike all year long in Pittsburgh, and did do as well in Boston (Cambridge and Allston). It was actually easier in Boston as they're better at cleaning snow off the streets. It's perfectly possible with the right ge
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by dimatura 13y ago
Suppose you program a simple robot (say, like a Neato) to try to move around while vacuuming and avoiding obstacles. It follows a purely deterministic program. Now suppose you have another robot controlled purely with a quantum-level source
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by dimatura 13y ago
"Easy as anything in math"? Now that's "obviously false hyperbole". You can't just brush away that discontinuity, specially when it's on the minimum (which is what people most often care about). Anyway,
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by dimatura 13y ago
Well, there is such a thing as hyperheuristics, which are related to what you're saying (perhaps the name metaheuristic would've been used for this, but it was already taken). While theoretically possible, I don't think it ma
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by dimatura 13y ago
This looks nice, though I feel like this is one of those cases where it's easier to code it yourself than to learn and use the library API. At least until the BOA stuff is implemented, and perhaps even then.
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by dimatura 13y ago
You're being too pessimistic. Depth sensing is not that complicated. Even vanilla stereo vision has gotten really good in the last few years and will only get better.
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by dimatura 13y ago
Yes, this seems pretty much what the author wants to implement. It's also worthwhile to have a look at the paper describing Shazam's original algorithm ( http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shaz
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by dimatura 13y ago
Any idea on the release timeframe?
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by dimatura 13y ago
I made this! Please see the slides, they are more "up to date" than the respective papers.
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by dimatura 13y ago
As a heavy numerical python user I've tried and it's cool. But as a heavy vim user I miss the code editing flexibility. My current favorite way to use ipython is through vim's Screenshell plugin.
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by dimatura 13y ago
I use ratpoison, the 1MB window manager. I'd still use it if it took up a 1GB or whatever because it still is my favorite wm. The low memory footprint is a nice perk, specially when it's running alongside memory hogs like firefox.
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by dimatura 14y ago
"X is a ... method that gives people a delusion that they are doing something useful with their data." could be applied to pretty much any method in ML if you don't know what you're doing. PCA is a strange omission, but it's not like it's h
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by dimatura 14y ago
"the rules built into the software already contain the seeds for the possible outcome" -- you could say the same for natural evolution, if you consider the laws of physics as 'the rules built into the software'. Regarding selection, yes, th
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Find a separating hyperplane with this One Weird Kernel Trick(oneweirdkerneltrick.com)
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by dimatura 14y ago
I'm guessing the "pretraining" described in this 2006 Science article: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/science.pdf . (Possibly the same line of research the article you mention). Sure, if you look at things from a wide enough perspective
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by dimatura 14y ago
You can get something similar to that with the Firefox vimperator plugin. Press ctrl-I in a textarea and a vim pops up. When you close it the text gets copied back. I use it a lot!
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by dimatura 15y ago
This style (using no circuit boards) is pretty popular in the BEAM robots community, where it's known as "freeforming". Here's a random example http://www.flickr.com/photos/mohitbhoite/5708836052/in/photo...
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by dimatura 15y ago
With docutils you can already convert restructuredtext to pdf directly (not very nice) or to latex.
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by dimatura 15y ago
The first chess-related work of fiction that comes to mind is "The defense", by Nabokov. The main character is similarly obsessed with chess and comes to see everything in terms of chess. There's a movie adaptation called "The Luzhin defens
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by dimatura 15y ago
I dislike the term 'trick' here. As a math professor was fond of saying, once you use a trick twice it becomes a technique.
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by dimatura 15y ago
This system seems explicitly designed to confuse the most common face detector, the Viola-Jones system, which is the basis for the face detection you can find in a lot of cameras these days. Note that detection (is there a face in the pictu
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by dimatura 15y ago
Memoization-by-Google.
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by dimatura 15y ago
What didn't they like about Git?
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by dimatura 15y ago
Yes, I had pretty much the same situation. I finally got a T510. Previously I had been using an antiglare filter, which works OK but is impossible to apply without leaving bubbles in.
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by dimatura 15y ago
I did actually think of Rust, but after looking at the website I got the impression it was still very alpha. I'm all for competition, it's cool to see it's in active development.
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by dimatura 15y ago
A couple of other alternatives to C and C++ are D, D2, OOC and Cyclone. In a more functional vein, BitC and Fortress. There are also a few interesting languages that compile to C, like Vala (C#-like), Cython (Python-like), Lush (Lisp-like),
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by dimatura 15y ago
Seems to me like helping losers lose less is a good thing.

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