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841.
by gambler 10y ago
This is an interesting point. The article complains about checks being zero-factor authentication. Well, in practice, traditional chip-less credit cards are also zero-factor authenticated. The notion that our card numbers are supposed to be
842.
by gambler 10y ago
It's kind of like connecting to a website of a parallel world. Looks normal at a first glance, but weird and alien when you start reading. As far as security, what can they do from that domain that isn't done from other domains?
843.
by gambler 10y ago
Hm, this will make me sounds like a smart-ass, but ever since I learned about stem cells I was wondering why one does what you do. I mean, in some fundamental way it's kind of obvious. If your cells get damaged with age, why not store
844.
by gambler 10y ago
The model behind ANNs defines how the system maps its inputs to its outputs. A theory, on the other hand, is something that describes an aspect of the environment/sample data regardless of system's outputs. One benefit of having s
845.
by gambler 10y ago
I've read those papers when they came out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they were not peer-reviewed. The first one looks very impressive from the examples they've provided, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof
846.
by gambler 10y ago
You could probably replace 90% of YouTube comments with a simple trigram-based chat bot and no one would notice. But that's hardly a good measure of AI quality. Although, your comment illustrates the main problem with the Turing Test.
847.
by gambler 10y ago
>Generating theories which have predictive power is exactly what deep neural nets do. Not really. Some symbolic/inductive systems do that. Traditional deep neural nets have a single model that is being adjusted to fit the distribu
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by gambler 10y ago
> If it's passing the turing test, we're pretty close, 3 years max Well yes? If a Turing test you realize the simulation of some idiot in the online chat, it has long been there - and nobody wants. But the system, which can l
849.
by gambler 10y ago
>What are the "other learning algorithms" ? SVMs, AdaBoost & co, random forests - just to name a few popular ones. >Neural nets are universal function approximators. There isnt something they can't learn. Which
850.
by gambler 10y ago
At highest level this is true. Any prediction must be based on some model, and that model can be considered a simulation of the subject.
851.
by gambler 10y ago
You can create emergent behavior even with very crude, seemingly simplistic rule-based models. Forget about AI. Think about modeling processes. You can model a process using a very crude set of hand-crafted rules and still get useful simula
852.
by gambler 10y ago
Thing is, I don't see how the stuff from the article ties into their existing business. When I hear "IoT" or "self-driving car" or "Computer Vision" I think about ARM, Google, NVidia and a bunch other bran
853.
by gambler 10y ago
> Intel is transforming from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. Sounds like they want to go the same route as HP and IBM. I.e. transform themselves from a company that do
854.
by gambler 10y ago
Google is, at best, on par with them. What bother me isn't that, but how little power an individual has compared to either of those two entities.
855.
by gambler 10y ago
I recently parsed that in C#. It's simple enough to do, but the format is weird. It would be much simpler if the digits were stored as individual raw files in folders corresponding to each label.
856.
by gambler 10y ago
Unless they use different emails for different websites. This sounds extreme, but you just pointed out one reason that might be a good idea.
857.
by gambler 10y ago
You still need your phone for that. If you're out of battery charge, you're temporarily locked out. If you loose your phone, you're locked out until you recover the number. If you can't recover the number for some reason
858.
by gambler 10y ago
While we have some impressive technologies, the way we apply them to real life is usually at best boring, and at worst depressing as fuck. I can't name any tech introduced in the last 10 years that made my day-to-day life better or at
859.
by gambler 10y ago
Unpopular opinion time... A lot of written fiction constitutes an intelligent person intently thinking about some subject, drawing upon their experienec and communicating their ideas. This kind of thing happens much more rarely on TV and in
860.
by gambler 10y ago
You've watched far too many Hinton videos. Cyc belongs to the family of rule-based expert systems. Expert systems were successfully used in medical diagnostics, chemistry, biology and various branches of engineering. Not to mention cou
861.
by gambler 10y ago
You're comparing a single system developed years ago to everything ever produced with neural networks (which refer to a whole family of different architectures). > A result from AM/Eurisko doesn't mean much. A result from
862.
by gambler 10y ago
Chat rooms, forums, comment sections of smaller, targeted, online magazines. I miss a lot of those. Centralized platforms pretend to replace and "improve" those technologies, but the end results are fake on many levels and ripe wi
863.
by gambler 11y ago
Well, that's just another way of stating that CPUs have fallen way, way behind graphics cards in terms of power. At some point in the past the difference in power wasn't nearly as large. If there were consumer-grade 16- and 32- co
864.
by gambler 11y ago
Using sets instead of loops is a sensible thing to do. After using LINQ or a proper functional language it's hard to go back. Using past tense instead of explicit state handling is actually a very interesting idea that I don't see
865.
by gambler 11y ago
I'm not OP, but I can answer the question as if it was addressed to me. I believe that a lot of "real life" code can be simplified because I've had way too many cases where I open some program and remove 60 to 80 perce
866.
by gambler 11y ago
I appreciate your skepticism. And I mean that in the most positive way possible. Seems like most of HN visitors areskeptical about almost everything except extraordinary claims regarding AI prowess. But really, you're being way too g
867.
by gambler 11y ago
I haven't looked too deeply at this particular book yet, but your overall sentiment is sounds very familiar. Too many people are willing to accept (and defend!) sub-par explanations and overcome them through titanic mental grind. The s
868.
by gambler 11y ago
I think that's a great idea. At this point in time, there is so much stuff going on the CS/AI/ML domain that translating research papers into something people can read without incalculable suffering might be as important and
869.
by gambler 11y ago
I am sick of reading about anything "deep" and "neural" on Hacker News (especially hype/puff pieces), but this blog post is so well-written that I'm upvoting it despite being about ANNs. I guess proper knowledg
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by gambler 11y ago
Ah, Asimov. I still consider him the most important SF writer in history, rivaled only by Phillip K. Dick. It's not that any single one of Asimov's stories stunned me or changed my mind in a profound way. It's more about the

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