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by manux 8y ago
Yeah, this person clearly is from Québec, and here "Alexia" is a woman's name.
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by manux 8y ago
I'm not sure what the author is trying to convey, and why he calls that conservatism. I'm not sure how social policies favouring good social and emotional health for people to enable them to have prosperous and stable relationship
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by manux 8y ago
> AI are essentially black boxes that unconsciously learn the biases of the datasets they are given. Please don't confuse "AI" with the current state-of-the-art of the latest deep learning model. Many of us researchers ar
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by manux 9y ago
> I never broke my habit of the old school CUA keybindings For me it's the opposite. I can't switch to IDEs and sometimes accidentally close browser tabs because my brain has mapped `cut` to Ctrl-W.
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by manux 9y ago
I wonder how documentable the space of hyperparameters really is (which is I think what the OP is poking at) with the current way we conceive of them, and also with how experiments currently happen. Often, people either reuse other people&#
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by manux 9y ago
Sure what I just wrote is technobabble, I don't have much self-driving car expertise, but it was just to make a point. From my experience with large scale engineering projects, especially ones with ML involved, the tiniest details can
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by manux 9y ago
She makes a number of fair points, but: > Can you really explain eight self-driving car trade secrets in 45 minutes? Maybe I'm fooling myself, but I think I can do that in 45 seconds. - hey what's your learning rate schedul
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by manux 9y ago
I believe that we are not close to "general AI", at all. Yet, that is a very different position than believing that "general AI" is not possible at all, which I think is a foolish position considering highly adaptative b
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by manux 9y ago
> It can understand "the given problem" but there is FAR MORE to our minds than optimizing and learning how to solve a task. Humans are bound by the size of their brains. Machines can "duplicate themselves", in a way
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Facebook to open AI lab in Montreal headed by McGill professor(montrealgazette.com)
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by manux 10y ago
Honestly all these scenarios are interesting research avenues. Inter-agent communication, especially in a machine learning context, is an unsolved problem, exploring it in such a scenario would be nice. Agent-human communication is probably
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by manux 10y ago
I do research in "Deep RL" for a living. The same algorithms (and advances related to them) that can be used in such a scenario can be used to create machine learning solutions for social good. Similarly, algorithms used to detect
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by manux 11y ago
> These models are just clever image uncompression. Nothing scary here. :) Yes and no. The latent representation space can be seen as a kind of result of compression, but the opposite is going on. As you say, these models generate images
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by manux 11y ago
As much as everyone is entitled to their opinion, some people really seem to lack self-awareness, and this post reinforces my opinion on this. What I mean by that is simply that I often find that people can be incredibly unaware of the impa
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by manux 11y ago
Agreed. Aren't there any finer grained permissions they could have used?
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by manux 11y ago
It's not really about making the distinction, it's about recognizing a group of people (women) that have achieved something that, on average, women have a lot more trouble achieving for various reasons (including prejudice & f
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by manux 11y ago
As much as I dislike positive discrimination, I view it as a necessary evil. In the specific case of women in CS/CE, I think it's fair to say that the lack of women is rather troubling, and has roots in prejudice. So yeah, who kno
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by manux 11y ago
I don't have enough karma (I guess?) to downvote this but if I could I would. This article is terrible advice as has been pointed out already by many people in this thread but I just wanted to add my two cents. "Academic education
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by manux 12y ago
While you _can_ effectively go away from your screen, when people target your personal/professional mail/online accounts, that's not possible. Imagine if people called your phone all the time to insult you. You _could_ turn i
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by manux 12y ago
Pardon my lack of knowledge, but how is this single function in the server an NSA honeypot?
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by manux 13y ago
Alternatively, emigrate from the US to a country where school is (as it should be) affordable, or even free. Canada is just north.
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by manux 14y ago
> A team of British scientists recently analyzed nearly 3,000 neuroscientific articles published in the British press between 2000 and 2010 and found that the media regularly distorts and embellishes the findings of scientific studies.
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by manux 14y ago
Concerning your 3rd point, there are some specific tasks in which Machine Learning algorithms beat humans by a significant margin (fraud detection, biomedical pattern matching, to name a few). Considering the recent engineering prowesses th
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by manux 14y ago
Wasn't there another link today about how A/B testing doesn't work?
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by manux 15y ago
Haha, I am not one of those. I think humanity needs to be selfish in this case, and you know, it needs to be some kind of long term selfishness. IMO there is no rationale behind the "humans are evil" thing. Just a very poor self-esteem.
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by manux 15y ago
We need to because we are aware of the detrimental effects our environmental behavior has not only on nature, but on ourselves too. (And we like preserving ourselves right?)
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by manux 15y ago
> a "consumer-based approach" to higher education That has to be another problem.