ericjang

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Bots and Thoughts from ICRA2018(blog.evjang.com)
1 points by ericjang 8y ago|0 comments
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by ericjang 8y ago
can you elaborate on what you disagree about?
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by ericjang 8y ago
I think the last remark about Xi Jinping's wife was uncalled for (I'm Taiwanese American).
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by ericjang 8y ago
more progress coming soon. You aint see nothing yet ;)
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by ericjang 8y ago
The authors of the blog post make pretty liberal use of fantasy artwork. The art doesn't add any educational value for me. If I stretch my imagination I can see how the last image gives a connotation of "an impressive, highly skil
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by ericjang 8y ago
> The world is full of hidden complexity, so be prepared for an education at any moment, I'd say. Wonderful words! Added to my quotes list :)
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by ericjang 8y ago
There is at least one Google researcher on that list (and various academic professors on that list are employed by Google as consultants).
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maybe she/he
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Pixar does not have an open floor plan. It's 2-3 folks to an office, and the animators are well known for decorating their offices in fairly quirky ways during the "off-season" when they have finished their portion of the wor
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by ericjang 8y ago
Pardon the naive question, but is a high-rise corporate office like this one (and firms in NYC) preferable to a sprawling "groundscraper" campus (Google, FB)? Which layout costs less? How does this affect management and organizati
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by ericjang 9y ago
Tacotron 2 text-to-audio samples: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind... Blog post: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generatin... Paper:
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by ericjang 9y ago
"Take back control of your content and unlock your sources of inspiration for just 5€/ Month." Sounds like a tagline for a "Silicon Valley" episode.
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Connections Between Automatic Differentiation and Delimited Continuations(arxiv.org)
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Aesthetically Pleasing Learning Rates(blog.evjang.com)
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by ericjang 9y ago
+1, definitely well worth reading. Paragraphs 85-89 seem like they come out of a prize-winning thriller, but every single paragraph in the indictment is also gripping.
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Here's a recent survey / observational science paper by some prominent "neuroevolution" / A-Life researchers. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453 . I found this refreshing because it's rare t
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by ericjang 9y ago
The author has a pretty good sense of humor. On the testimonials page ( http://lcui.org ): "LCUI solves many complex issues, it reduces the application UI development and maintenance costs, I only need to write a code for th
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by ericjang 9y ago
I used gRPC for numerous hobby projects during my undergrad to glue together binaries running in different languages (e.g. a simulation server running in C++ and a scripting client in Python). By passing around a shared data structure (Prot
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by ericjang 9y ago
Out of curiosity - how do people who employ these marketing tactics reconcile this? do they drink their own Kool-Aid or do they willfully turn a blind eye to the grey/blackhat clients because they don't want to think about it?
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Zhihu removed from app stores for one week(medium.com)
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by ericjang 9y ago
It was started by demoscene people.
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by ericjang 9y ago
Thank you for this comment! Gives me a lot to think about. Bookmarked.
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Poppy Robotics Project(poppy-project.org)
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Nice. I also recommend checking out Nanogui (C++) by Wenzel Jakob: https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui
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by ericjang 9y ago
Thanks for the good science!
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by ericjang 9y ago
In vanilla policy gradient, one plays the game to the end and then bumps the probability of all actions taken by the agent up (if AlphaGo won) or down (if it lost). This is very slow because there ~150 moves in an expert game, and we do n
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by ericjang 9y ago
Money is no object to HFT firms when it comes to reducing latency. A recent technique involves laying optic fiber cables with hollow interiors, so that the internal refraction of light spends more time in a vacuum and less time slowed down
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by ericjang 9y ago
I wish we knew how to imbue robots with chemical actuation mechanisms that actually worked (as opposed to some proof of concept demo of a simple electrolysis reaction in a bulky 3D printed silicone balloon). If real muscle cells / limb
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A Tutorial on Normalizing Flows(blog.evjang.com)
1 points by ericjang 9y ago|0 comments
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by ericjang 9y ago
I see, so you are proposing a way to infer capillary expansion/contraction as a way to measure blood flow.

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