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by ericjang 10y ago
Is it a fair comparison if the operating systems are different? A more adequate comparison would be if the Photoshop benchmark were run on a Mac Pro running the same Windows OS via Boot Camp.
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"They thought that search engines were a map of what people were thinking. But actually they were a map of how people were thinking. Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic." - Nathan, Ex Machina (2015)
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Why are people being so critical about this work? Sure, the blog post provides a simplified picture about what the system is actually capable of, but it's still helpful for a non-ML audience to get a better understanding of the high-le
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I disagree with the parent comment, but why is everyone downvoting this? It was a politely presented opinion, and the following discussion is entirely civil.
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Repetition is a very persuasive technique. The more someone hears a claim, the more inclined they will believe it or at least attribute credibility to it, independent of the claim's merits. Regardless of what one thinks regarding AI di
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Did you mean 'disrupt'? Hadn't heard of "disturb" before used in startup lingo.
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> The last part reminded me of google training a bunch of robot arms [1]. Haven't seen much being done with it, does anyone know if anything is being done with the data? The data gathered using aforementioned robot arms is availab
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by ericjang 10y ago
Issues of H1-B Visa abuse aside, I think this guy was trying to stop legal immigration: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/kent-shooting... I don't think articles like "Study: Immigrants Foun
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NVIDIA is making a big bet on GPUs being the right abstraction layer for research/production, and is nearly pivoting the entire company around this. The software/developer tools layer is really important too. Custom AI chip makers
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I almost read that as Wink-evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
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Stephen Merity of Metamind has a nice visual tutorial here as well: http://smerity.com/articles/2016/google_nmt_arch.html
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Suppose you train a neural net on cat pictures to classify the breed of cat. We desire the property that if we were to feed in a picture of a horse instead of a cat, we could somehow measure how good the network's parameters are for cl
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by ericjang 10y ago
Fascinating documentary, thanks for sharing! If I understand the business model correctly, isn't the 融道网 (Roadoor.com) 9.00% guaranteed principal + interest mentioned in the documentary considered a Ponzi scheme in the US? How much of
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Thank you for your civil reply, and I agree that the question has not been put to rest, as evident by the ongoing debate regarding how diversity initiatives should be implemented, if at all. I also agree that all this should be taken with u
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by ericjang 10y ago
> And what of the girls who learn that their role models have been given a handicap, pushed upwards beyond their skill by well-meaning but naive men? Proponents of affirmative-action policies argue that the handicap offsets disabilitie
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Thanks for sharing this, Garry. In hindsight, would you have preferred to run your startup as a solo founder, or do you believe that a solo founder startup presents a greater operational/execution risk than co-founder conflict?
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Is anyone else concerned that despite being an open-source project with permissive licensing, the formation of the Julia Computing group has made Julia's development a bit of a walled garden? I don't mean this in the sense that Ap
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> is it viable for me to even think about this kind of thing - doing such a residency? Would I even have a chance of being considered, vs someone younger? Furthermore - how does one do a residency of this nature, while still paying bills
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by ericjang 10y ago
The primary author is a Google Brain Resident ( https://research.google.com/teams/brain/residency/ ). The Brain Residency is a really great program for starting a career in Deep Learning and ML research, and I&
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by ericjang 10y ago
Here's some additional context from a Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5go4sa/n_w...
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Having spun/graduated out of X (also now an Alphabet subsidiary), Waymo is now a subsidiary of Alphabet and so by technicality it's more accurate to refer to it as Alphabet's Waymo, rather than "Google's Self-Drivin
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Another path you can take: build your own desktop and install a Hackintosh OS! Here's my build ( http://pcpartpicker.com/list/pYWQMp ), which runs into some driver issues but can be fixed with Kext utility. This set
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(I've edited my blog post to clarify this)
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another one: Hyper-Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09106 and a blog post to go with it: http://blog.otoro.net/2016/09/28/hyper-networks/
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Sorry, that was what I meant to say. My wording was confusing
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Summary of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2016(blog.evjang.com)
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Due diligence on the financials of a company (what investment bankers are supposed to do) is actually really hard to get right with the algorithms we have today. Much of the data and insight compiled by an I-banker today does not exist in a
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agreed. my worry is that even if people decide to ethically develop AI, there will be those who disagree with those ethics and/or willingly ignore their conscience. I don't see a way out short of a political revolution / bloo
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I'll be grinding my magic lvl in the meantime.
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I like your insight. Is that the main message conveyed in [0]? (I haven't read it) What do you think is going to happen? Can society do something to prevent mass concentration of wealth into the 0.00001% of people via the march of tech

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