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by fchollet 12y ago
Google Finance is largely useless when compared to Yahoo Finance, however Google Now and Google Search have become remarkably good at providing quick and relevant stock data.
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by fchollet 12y ago
All of Wikipedia (English) already fits on a smartphone with a 64GB SD card.
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by fchollet 12y ago
The difference between an employee doing work and one deceiving you into thinking they're doing work is simple: one produces value, the other does not. Here, no useful information can be extracted from this Eugene chatbot. It cannot pe
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by fchollet 12y ago
For instance, that is the aim of IBM's Watson project. Certainly, if you create a program capable of answering useful questions (a "deep QA" system), then that is a praise-worthy effort. But that is not the aim of chatbots, w
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by fchollet 12y ago
There is nothing about Eugene that is useful to the advancement of actual AI, to our understanding of intelligence. Advanced chatbots are a parlor trick, the same way that rabbit and hat tricks do not help us develop actual teleportation sy
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by fchollet 12y ago
Please. That is many decades away, and the hard part about it is definitely not the soccer strategy AI...
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by fchollet 12y ago
The Turing test only tests for mimicry in human conversation, not "intelligence" as measured through a behavioral framework. A better "Turing test" proposed a few years ago was, "develop a team of robots that play s
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by fchollet 12y ago
The Turing test is to our understanding of intelligence what sleight of hand is to our understanding of physics. Tricking people, as a goal, is not conductive to science. A researcher claiming to have passed the Turing test instantly discre
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by fchollet 12y ago
The fact that the organization that compiled the report has a political agenda doesn't mean that its data is somehow made-up. You can skip the recommendations, which are subjective, and only consider the numbers they report to form you
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H-1B Visa Denials Cost U.S.-Born Tech Workers Jobs(renewoureconomy.org)
2 points by fchollet 12y ago|0 comments
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by fchollet 12y ago
For the record, the demonstrated effect of US tech workers visa caps is less jobs for US-born workers too (as the economy is artificially slowed down as a whole). For instance it is estimated that during the recession over 200,000 jobs f
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by fchollet 12y ago
I like the idea a lot. Just trying to understand this better: it seems like your company is entirely about selling consulting services, yet your stated goal is to "give people machine learning without them having to hire a data scienti
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by fchollet 12y ago
Deep convolutional neural nets are the staple method for companies doing computer vision at scale. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Baidu make extensive use of them. In 2014 they definitely deserve their place on the shortlist of "pretty s
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by fchollet 12y ago
It could definitely be used as a drinking cup, and would work the same even when occasionally tipped. The only moment it can spill is when you fill it, at which point it would likely be in horizontal position.
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Peak Advertising and the Future of the Web (2013)(peakads.org)
6 points by fchollet 12y ago|0 comments
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Snapchat misled users on disappearing messages(secure.marketwatch.com)
2 points by fchollet 12y ago|0 comments
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by fchollet 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently trying to figure out ways to make the engine much smarter in the way it collects data.
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QuickAnswers.io: instant answers to natural language questions(quickanswers.io)
4 points by fchollet 12y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Knowledge engine, instant answers to any question(sphere-engineering.com)
3 points by fchollet 12y ago|0 comments
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by fchollet 12y ago
Empirically, they are. As a civilization we are investing exponentially more in science over time, which is mentioned in the article.
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by fchollet 12y ago
To clarify this point: at the time I meant "imagination" in a human context, as the ability to create new thought systems to operate in, as opposed to doing research within an existing thought framework (typically inherited from y
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Why we will never see a 15-hour work week(sphere-engineering.com)
5 points by fchollet 12y ago|1 comments
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The Singularity is not coming (2012)(sphere-engineering.com)
55 points by fchollet 12y ago|67 comments
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by fchollet 12y ago
Reading her other tweets, it appears she is making an appeal to her followers to start a witch hunt.
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One Man's Quest for the Perfect Hand: 39 Years and a 3D Printer(mashable.com)
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Magnetic microrobots printing 3D structures(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by fchollet 13y ago
A previous text analysis had identified the same person (as well as a number of converging clues): http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/occams-razor-w... http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com
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Bitcoin Creator ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Unmasked as Nick Szabo(blogs.wsj.com)
13 points by fchollet 13y ago|10 comments
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by fchollet 13y ago
14-year olds making stupid jokes on the Internet now results in international arrests. After her initial tweet, the 14-year old apparently spent several hours on Twitter begging AA for "forgiveness", but the FBI ruined her life al
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Patent Suggests Sony Still Sees Future for Household Robots(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by fchollet 13y ago|0 comments

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