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by dougabug 4y ago
Not so much. Check out E3GAN from Gordon Wetzstein’s lab at Stanford: https://matthew-a-chan.github.io/EG3D/ . In particular, note how they are able to apply a process called GAN Inversion to find a point in the 3D GAN’
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by dougabug 4y ago
Pruning ( both structured and unstructured) is an extremely active area of research and development. Since the Ampere generation, Nvidia GPU’s have HW support for sparsified networks. WRT to overparameterized models, even the largest models
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by dougabug 5y ago
You could switch internally (ie option 2) and “grin and bear” the onus of the existing management team while you gained enough practical experience in cloud engineering to more readily compete for such roles at other companies. Another opti
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by dougabug 5y ago
People have literally been severely beaten, stabbed, and even killed for doing precisely that (i.e. their job). https://www.ajc.com/news/grand-jury-indicts-man-accused-of-k... https://montreal.ctvnews.ca&#x2
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by dougabug 5y ago
You can’t really compare HyperNeRFs to Plenoxels because the former does so much more. Vanilla NeRF has just under half a million weights (if we ignore the coarse network), although more recent work has shown comparable results with only fo
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by dougabug 5y ago
Deformation fields would struggle to fundamentally change the topological type, particularly where the transformation would need to “tear” the manifold, such as turning a sphere into a donut or dividing a cell into two child cells. HyperNeR
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by dougabug 5y ago
Except the plenoxel representation is also 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than an MLP-based NeRF. It’s not very surprising that a sparse voxel representation can capture a plenoptic function. Representation of volumetric video further press
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by dougabug 5y ago
According to the Maa.org, when Niels H. Abel was asked how he gained his expertise, he replied, “By studying the masters and not their pupils.” I would say that, especially in cases where the “masters” lived long ago, pedagogy and terminolo
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by dougabug 5y ago
Producing more is not always an option, sometimes it is not even desirable. Obesity is already a major health hazard throughout much of the First World, and overconsumption in many forms drives our unsustainable stripping of planetary resou
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by dougabug 5y ago
Saying that “in an ideal world” housing prices should be cost plus minus depreciation seems begging the question. Why is this ideal? Ideal for whom? Should all goods and services be priced using a cost plus model? What, then, would be the i
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by dougabug 5y ago
> Bob bought a house this year. He paid $500,000 even though it should've been $200,000. […] If you cause his house to be worth $200,000, as it ought to be […] An honest question: why “should” or “ought” the price have been $200k, i
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by dougabug 5y ago
Netflix went down on two back to back Christmases. I remember because my SO was out of town visiting family, and I was going to catch up on stuff she would never watch. And then the next year, the exact same thing happened! Super frustratin
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by dougabug 5y ago
Saying that something is foundational doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s sufficient, or that it’s exclusive of other foundational properties.
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by dougabug 5y ago
Presumably, human memory involves a significant associative aspect. If you couldn’t recall a relevant fact within a useful time frame, this might impact comprehension or the ability to make connections. Imagine trying to read a book, while
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by dougabug 5y ago
It’s not just memorization of the rules, in a game like Go that would only be a tiny fraction of the memory utilized. Remembering large numbers of examples assists in recognizing patterns and developing strategies.
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by dougabug 5y ago
Er, I was being glib. Terminator style robots would be a pretty inefficient way to wipe out humanity. Wrt motive, I would assume that if we are someday killed off by our own machines, it will most likely be something akin to an accidental n
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by dougabug 5y ago
> Which means essentially that they never are accepted, the people who disagree with them just die and the next generation embrace them. This is to some degree the point made in Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” https:&#
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by dougabug 5y ago
Perhaps this was a cherry picked example on the part of the authors, but the network generating relevant novel images conditioned upon the text prompt “an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog” … made me take a (not e
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by dougabug 5y ago
We are in violent agreement! Optimization never grows old, but it’s the more general form of optimization of which you speak, rather than hyper-specific instances of optimization which can overfit to specific eras.
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by dougabug 5y ago
Good points, but it should also be noted that humans also often rely on other humans supporting, assisting, and training / coaching them in order to perform at peak levels. Pre-Neolithic humans while biologically considered modern, lac
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by dougabug 5y ago
This article is uncannily apropos for HN. The spectrum of opinions towards emerging technologies is so starkly colored by the eras during which practitioners did their primary work. It reminds me of the Heinlein quote from “A Door into Summ
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by dougabug 5y ago
Deliver, on-time, consistently. Exceed expectations for quality of execution. See things through end-to-end instead of staying within your silo; anticipate challenges across the entire process and deal with them effectively. Make sure your
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by dougabug 5y ago
Obviously, it’s a terrible idea! Unfortunately, every nation or deeply resourced actor exercising complete restraint forever is probably not a Nash Equillibrium.
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by dougabug 5y ago
Sure, but in 2012, AI wasn’t a common subject for laypeople to discuss as non-fiction. Policy makers for decades mostly dismissed AI because of earlier failures to live up to the hype. In 2012, most people didn’t have smartphones in their p
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by dougabug 5y ago
Weaponizing AI on the face of it seems completely insane. The problem is that if we don’t, then we would presumably be at a tremendous strategic disadvantage to an adversary which did (more or less the logic that led to the development and
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by dougabug 5y ago
What you say seems undeniably true, however reifying fundamental concepts lies at or near the core of human natural intelligence. Perhaps more so than logic itself. Work on AI is basically as old as computing itself (i.e. the pioneers of co
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by dougabug 5y ago
It doesn’t appear that Thiel is saying AGI won’t happen. Rather he observes that people are talking about it much less now than they were (presumably because Strong AI is still far off); and furthermore that it’s not that important to him a
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by dougabug 5y ago
There was a Byte Magazine article by Steve Ciarcia, in Sept 1983, entitled “A 64K-bit dynamic RAM chip is the visual sensor in this digital image camera,” describing how to do exactly this hack. https://archive.org/details&#
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by dougabug 5y ago
A number of people get rich selling images of their bodies. Also, arguably athletes in physically arduous sports like Football or boxing are trading damage to their bodies for fame, money, and glory.
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by dougabug 5y ago
True. VGG models halved the ImageNet error rate of AlexNet two years after AlexNet, followed by ResNet models a little over a year later which halved the error rate again. Recent NAS generated models are up to 20x more computationally effic

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