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by dougabug 5y ago
Structure from Motion (SfM) generated point clouds. Typical SLAM point clouds are much sparser so they can be run in real-time.
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by dougabug 5y ago
Human knowledge is evolving incredibly quickly, and has since before computers were even invented. The first computer I played with was the (then new) Commodore PET, with 4KB RAM. My elementary school had one, and access to it was like some
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by dougabug 5y ago
In the distant past, I sometimes did certifications to increase my knowledge, but almost never advertised the fact. Generally, what you can demonstrably do is worth more than a certificate.
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by dougabug 5y ago
Think of a gradient as a kind of vector slope. In one dimension, the derivative of a function is its slope at any given point; since in this case there is only one direction against which to measure the slope, we would typically consider th
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by dougabug 5y ago
I wonder to what extent the private “no poaching agreements” between major tech companies held down SW Engineer compensation.
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by dougabug 6y ago
ConvNets were invented in the 80s.
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by dougabug 6y ago
Actually, many Asian American communities are being hit pretty hard by Covid-19 in the Bay Area. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/10/18/cor... In addition, racially motivated
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by dougabug 6y ago
Due to symmetry, at least, there are many global minima, but with the same minimum value.
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by dougabug 6y ago
Maybe this will lead to people not losing their minds over the existence of nude photos.
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by dougabug 6y ago
It’s a heuristic argument that critical points are extremely unlikely to be local minima (ie positive definite second derivative). Loss surfaces of DNNs do typically have a global minimum (zero if they fit the training data exactly).
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by dougabug 6y ago
ReLU networks are piecewise linear.
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by dougabug 6y ago
One of the authors said in a talk that it worked with as few as 15 images.
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by dougabug 6y ago
The question would then be whether the owner of a particular printing press should be required to publish materials widely considered false and offensive.
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by dougabug 6y ago
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 30km in radius. It’s not at all clear that serious effects do not extend beyond that, for instance to agricultural lands in Belarus.
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by dougabug 6y ago
But the tsunami didn’t render large areas of land uninhabitable, as in the case of Chernobyl and Fukushima.
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by dougabug 6y ago
> 3/4 of residential land in SF is zoned for single family. We're not to the point where we need to talk about geography or the superfund sites. But this is hardly a property unique to the Bay Area. Most American metropolitan a
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by dougabug 6y ago
Zoning could arguably mitigate the problem, but geography strongly constrains the Bay Area in a way that simply does not apply to major metropolitan areas with vastly lower property values. Ironically, it really is pretty much supply and de
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by dougabug 6y ago
Well, for one costs are much higher, availability of labor and land are far more constrained. Also, while their states (Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina) might be slightly red, those cities, like all large American cities, lean blue. The
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by dougabug 6y ago
Tens of millions of people lack the financial means to afford four years of college. Unfortunately, a college degree (or at least a certain amount of university experience) is the de facto gateway to professional jobs in today’s world. A me
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by dougabug 6y ago
Do you need posed images?
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by dougabug 6y ago
Classic.
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by dougabug 6y ago
Of course he is. Crush the tattletales! Children think in terms like “tattletales” and “naughty.”
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by dougabug 6y ago
It reminds me of the early episodes of “Silicon Valley” where an endless parade of would be entrepreneurs proudly declares how they want to “change the world!” (to the point where it becomes comically tedious). “Aggressive independence” for
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by dougabug 6y ago
Couldn’t this also be construed as a good thing? One outcome might wealth will be available to take care of the remaining population.
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by dougabug 6y ago
That’s actually been done at least a couple years back. https://towardsdatascience.com/code2pix-deep-learning-compil...
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by dougabug 6y ago
The point is this brings us closer to demonstrating AI which is in some sense grounded in reality, as opposed to some kind of “Clever Hans” or Searle’s “Chinese Box.” The network has learned how to “imagine playing out a scenario” much like
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by dougabug 7y ago
The droplets from sneezing, coughing, or even breathing are much larger than the coronavirus, for which they are a transport mechanism.
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by dougabug 7y ago
He has elementary textbooks on calculus and differential equations, as well, so you get an entire development from precalculus all the way to topology and analysis from the coherent viewpoint of a legit (but sympathetic) mathematician.
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by dougabug 7y ago
Precalculus in a Nutshell is a beautiful little book by George F Simmons, which pretty much captures everything you need to know to undertake the study of calculus. https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/precalculus
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by dougabug 7y ago
Lyft doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon in the US. If anything, Lyft is much larger than it was a few years ago. In China and a number of markets where Uber invested heavily, the competition won the war of attrition.

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