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by gambler 8y ago
I'm not sure why Lego themselves didn't make Lego-based breadboards. Seems like a fairly straightforward idea. Flat breadboard with conductive "lanes". Bricks with electric parts. Flat pieces with conductors. Conductivit
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by gambler 8y ago
I've worked with 2D graphics quite a bit and I've often used anisotropic smoothing[1]. GAN images have similar artifacts (probably worth thinking about, btw), which are trivial to spot if you know what you're looking for. The
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by gambler 8y ago
>don't care about stop-the-world GC in a very large percent of the cases Stop-the-world GC is a pain to deal with in tons of domains. Games, communications, control, various system-level tools. Just because a lot of web developers
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by gambler 8y ago
I wish researchers were using these examples to further understand what this network does, how it fails and what are its fundamental limitations. However, such digging would undermine the hype, so I'm not particularly hopeful. Most of
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by gambler 8y ago
>how many layers of abstraction can you add to an ecosystem before it is unusable? Isn't this even more true when speaking about serverless and all the surrounding technologies?
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by gambler 8y ago
Fortunately, we have outstanding and trustworthy corporate citizens like Google, Facebook, Uber and others that will continue AI research safely, ethically and responsibly without the risk of such technologies falling into the unsteady hand
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety Myths and Facts, 2019 Update(blog.piekniewski.info)
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by gambler 8y ago
> nothing impressive at all when it comes to RL in the real world Apparently, many people on this website think Go and StarCraft qualify as "the real world". Majority of them probably never even heard of blocks world and SHRD
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by gambler 8y ago
>but to characterize our understanding of machine learning as not going beyond 3 or 4 neurons is just plain crazy. There is a difference between understanding how something works and understanding why it works. Completely different
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by gambler 8y ago
>Can you honestly say with a straight face that there is no theory behind why convnets are the right choice? There is theory of convnets, but it's more of a post-factum analysis, really, and I'm not sure it's behind
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by gambler 8y ago
My point is that abandoning simple algorithms just because they don't (seem to) lead to AGI is a mistake.
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by gambler 8y ago
> One thing that always bothered me about the field was that the whole premise behind using logic as the basis for AI seemed to me to be obviously flawed because neither the inputs to nor the outputs from my brain were logical propositi
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by gambler 8y ago
There are dozens of papers "explaining" neural networks, using basic math, highly abstract math and even theoretical quantum physics[1] models. I don't see any of them used in constructing, improving or interpreting results o
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by gambler 8y ago
>Stuff like that will come, eventually. Well, I'm not so sure. On one hand, games use graphics techniques that were developed couple years prior to their development. On the other hand, they fail to capitalize even on relevant AI
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by gambler 8y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of an RPG with generated town population. Indie devs usually don't have resources to draw hundreds of portraits and record tends of hours of dialog, but if they could use ML to generate portraits and
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by gambler 8y ago
Where is this data from? I see 300MB model on their Google Drive. And if I understand correctly, you also need source and destination images to transfer styles from and to, so it's not like the model generates photos out of thin air.
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by gambler 8y ago
I'm waiting for the time where all this neural technology will start to be used for something good, like making better games with more NPCs who can really talk. Maybe never. The life-cycle seems to be research -> malicious use ->
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by gambler 8y ago
Since it uses a deep neural network, I don't think it's "thousands a second". Also, you can download an image and crop a face out of it in several seconds. You could even automate the process. The biggest problem is tran
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by gambler 8y ago
As far as pricing, I think one way to combat the manipulation is to put prices on your shopping list and never buy anything just because it's cheap, unless it's already on your list. Another strategy is to ignore prices altogether
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by gambler 8y ago
The notion that you must be good at selling shit is reinforced in most companies, colleges and probably schools. The idea that choosing products and making correct economic decisions is a skill - this idea is formally taught almost nowhere.
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by gambler 8y ago
No, sorry, the grandparent post is absolutely right. The search has been getting worse and worse every year to the point where I can't find specific articles I _know_ exist anymore. I know the article exists, I know it's indexed b
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by gambler 8y ago
My god, how far the web has fallen. Search engines were originally intended as tools . It was their job to index and deliver all content relevant to user's query . You could publish an article and if your website was indexed and user
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by gambler 8y ago
Ah, that's probably the one I was thinking off. I second your non-recommendation. After all the hype, it was underwhelming.
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by gambler 8y ago
Many SF novels had self-driving cabs. Don't remember specific names, but I think Heinlein has a few. Strugacky Brothers had bio-mechanical semi-intelligent transportation devices. I think a lot of people miss something important. Anyon
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by gambler 8y ago
I believe what Fallout did is typically called retro-futurism. The term "post-modern" is already occupied and has a very different meaning. I don't think Pattern Recognition really counts. Precisely when it was set was most
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by gambler 8y ago
In a better universe this is how research papers would look like. Amazing work.
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by gambler 8y ago
>You can `openssl req` a self-signed certificate, and as long as whatever device you want to talk to accepts it Device? We're talking about browsers. Browsers are getting increasingly hostile towards self-signed certs. Ironically,
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by gambler 8y ago
>Nothing is being forced. Not directly, but it is by complexity of dominant technology stacks, protocols and standards that are influenced by ubercorps.
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by gambler 8y ago
I am cynical for a reason. >They are using games to develop algorithms as they are easily defined problems I believe they use games because it makes good PR. I believed that before they chose StarCraft, but now I am more convinced in i
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by gambler 8y ago
Deep Mind continues the venerable tradition of defining their own frontiers of AI research based on what will sound good in a PR release when they inevitably achieve superhuman performance by modests means of a single datacenter stuffed wit

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