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by fchollet 12y ago
> When I was in Morocco, several different people told me that Neil Armstrong converted to Islam after seeing the Earth, and that Cat Stevens converted. At first, this was OK, but soon, after the third person or so mentioned this pair,
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by fchollet 12y ago
Input: a 60-dimensional vector that is the concatenation of 10 6-dimensional binary vectors encoding the binary representation of the input numbers. Output: the same, sorted. At least that's one dead simple way to formulate the problem
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by fchollet 12y ago
This post, while very interesting, attempts to draw a completely unwarranted parallel between deep nets and the human brain, as if layers of artificial neurons running on a GPU and the cortical layers of your brain were two interchangeable
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by fchollet 12y ago
I'm noticing that whenever something similar comes up, it turns out invariably that it revolves around a lionized "founder" figure whose teachings are the one path to follow. I would also assume (pure speculation here) that t
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by fchollet 12y ago
$500 billion is roughly 25% of the entire GDP of all of sub-saharan Africa. It is more than the entire GDP of the countries mentioned here. Of course it is bogus. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... I must say I am quite
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by fchollet 12y ago
Good luck with your company, I wish you succeed. NLP is certainly no piece of cake.
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by fchollet 12y ago
The AI winter has been over for a couple years, we're in the middle of a torrid summer right now (triggered by the deep learning craze). There is a rush in the VC world to throw millions at any new AI startup, especially if it has &quo
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by fchollet 12y ago
> I think you could accurately say machine learning is a subfield of ai. Yes, that is a widely accepted view of AI/ML. "AI" designates any method to give machines cognitive capabilities, while ML is a particular family of
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by fchollet 12y ago
> Where's the AI needed? Marketing, I assume. Giving people their very own Jarvis to interact with could be a selling point (even if it's less efficient than a GUI-based scheduling solution), and the "AI" buzzword wil
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by fchollet 12y ago
Forcing humans to use written natural language when dealing with a machine (complete with politeness formulas, etc) seems like a dreadfully inefficient UX. Why force users to type several sentences (minutes wasted on a mobile device) when a
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by fchollet 12y ago
How would you guarantee the trustworthiness of a node? How do you guarantee that a node is actually doing what it is supposed to and not inserting malware into its results? Reputation systems can be gamed (and will be if there's money
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Montblanc 'e-Strap' can turn any watch into a smartwatch(ablogtowatch.com)
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by fchollet 12y ago
Interesting to note: whenever the ISS comes up in European or Russian media, it is presented as an international, collaborative scientific enterprise. When it comes up in American media, it is presented solely as an American achievement. Th
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by fchollet 12y ago
To play the devil's advocate, that amounts to a bit under $7 per Canadian citizen. UBI won't be going very with far that.
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How New York City's Women Entrepreneurs Raised $3B in 10 Years(huffingtonpost.com)
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by fchollet 12y ago
92 volunteers, 43.5% were infected -> exactly 40 volunteers were infected, and 52 weren't. Then they claim to have found that the infected sample performed "10% worse" on intelligence tests. Intellectual performance follow
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by fchollet 12y ago
I thought this was going to be about the Spark big data framework.
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by fchollet 12y ago
> Our long term goal is to build machines that exceed human intelligence. I remember reading back in 2012 (or was it 2011?) that you projected to have a human-level vision system by 2015 and a strong AI by 2018. How far along are you? I
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by fchollet 12y ago
Does every aspect of spontaneous human thought need to be given a -ism name and be tagged as a sin? "Face-ism" is essentially pattern-matching, which is the way cognition operates on a fundamental level. Cognition is about finding
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by fchollet 12y ago
It should be expected from this kind of personal blog post to be about one's own story, rather than ideas or outward advice. I see nothing particularly negative with that. There are 48 instances of "I", 19 of "my",
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by fchollet 12y ago
Reasons to be bullish on the concept? Bitcoin is a secure public registry backed by a decentralized 300k THash/s computing network (and fast growing). That alone is insanely valuable, and not just as a vector of monetary transactions.
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by fchollet 12y ago
It's a very interesting result, but as always with neural networks we have to keep in mind that what matters is not whether a model can be encoded in a different architecture (even at equal entropy), the question is whether the model c
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by fchollet 12y ago
I'm not saying anyone is stupid. Rigorous statistical thinking is not particularly linked to intelligence. What I'm saying is: without rigorous statistical notions, good experimental science is impossible, and not nearly enough sc
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by fchollet 12y ago
> Scientists aren't idiots. You'd be amazed at how little most practicing scientists are versed in rational thinking, statistical rigorousness, and the scientific method. Maybe a lack of proper math and statistics education?
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by fchollet 12y ago
From the article: " It could be adaptively effective for anyone pursuing a fast life strategy like that embodied in the Dark Triad to occupy and exploit a low-light environment where others are sleeping and have diminished cognitive f
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by fchollet 12y ago
It could be that our current economic system implements a pretty terrible resource allocation algorithm, where many workers' jobs consist in undoing the efforts of employees from concurrent companies. In trading, a quant's job is
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by fchollet 12y ago
It's worth noting that HN is among the websites that remove functionality for Tor users (eg. registration). Despite all the talk on surveillance and anonymity on here, HN does not make it possible to express opinions or reveal informa
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by fchollet 12y ago
> Everything from Machine vision to natural language processing to speech recognition, is benefiting from this. We live in exciting times for AI, and everyone wants to get in on it. Not "everything" is benefiting from multilaye
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by fchollet 12y ago
The 10,000 hour rule is a cultural meme that has spread and found believers not because it is grounded in reality but because it is cognitively seductive. In the first place it should seem highly suspect that something as poorly-defined and
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by fchollet 12y ago
No. While historically this has been true during the pre-scientific era, the terms "philosophy" and "science" have diverged towards their specific modern meanings since the 17th century. Both are grounded in rationality;

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