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Google testing same day delivery service(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by marshallp 14y ago
It was 85% accuracy on imagenet of pascal voc, using just a couple of computers with nnets vs 1000 for that google brain. And both of these were just experiments run by grad students, a proper industrial effort would solve it.
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by marshallp 14y ago
What do you mean by that. If you mean progress, then that has occurred this year, basically the object recognition problem looks like it can be solved by neural nets (google brain cat detector and the latest imagenet challenge in pascal voc
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by marshallp 14y ago
Yeah, but they haven't put it in the framework of an actual benchmarked test like machine learning problems. They futzed around with prolog and other stuff rather than have any kind of metrics.
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by marshallp 14y ago
Machine learning has cracked any problem put in it's path. AI hasn't been done yet because no one's actually tried. There's the Loebner Prize but it's too easy (needs to be multi-month and with difficult challenges like write an essay or co
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by marshallp 14y ago
Big problems are quite easily solvable if more X prize and darpa challenges were promoted. Some big problems easily solvable today - Create artificial general intelligence - Create an immortal mice using focused ultrasound technologies (non
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by marshallp 14y ago
They'll have to. The future is local mobile social.
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by marshallp 14y ago
I'm actually anti-ROR and not a frontend guy, but information systems can tackle all problems. If there is a problem that can be solvable, the critical step is designing the database (it's why ERP runs all big busineses).
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by marshallp 14y ago
You've missed the point completely. It's not to make money, it's to deal with the OP's problem of get looked over by sales reps. People don't like being treadted like that, that's why they hate traditional car dealers.
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by marshallp 14y ago
It's not simply the battery tech. It's all the extra interior stuff like display etc. It's the total package, like apple does. Plus, just like with apple and jobs, or virgin with branson, there's an extra brand factor developing with musk.
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by marshallp 14y ago
Apple didn't actually create completely new products, just polished versions, same as Tesla. The same with market share, they only want a small segment (the only exception to this rule are ipads).
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by marshallp 14y ago
Tesla are the Apple of cars. Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs. The other car companies will have non-tech retards as ceo's and will always be playing catch-up. Tesla only has to fear techie's like google or apple itself entering the space.
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by marshallp 14y ago
Hackers can defeat these entrenched interests. Set up online websites that work through these problems in a structured manner (like a mechanical turk for anti-corruption).
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by marshallp 14y ago
They should simply have an upfront test drive fee. Book a test drive online.
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by marshallp 14y ago
reply to lutusp below because reply link takes too long: You're just saying my definitions of things are wrong etc. etc. You just want to disagree with anything I say. My views are laid out clearly on the comments in this thread. I don't se
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by marshallp 14y ago
Yeah, I totally agree, in non-english speaking countries it's completely justifiable (until human-level language translation comes around).
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by marshallp 14y ago
I'm not doing some post-modernism or whatever sneaky jab you're throwing in. You're implying that you have some definition of algebra that is truer than mine. But that is all meaningless arguments over words anyway. The real issue is that I
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by marshallp 14y ago
Is it the responsibility of the taxpayer to fund the education for the leisure activity of the upper middle classes (speaking with foreigners or reading translated literature). The education system that exists today (k12 + college) is a McR
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by marshallp 14y ago
I see where you're coming from, it's maybe useful to psychology practitioners. (I'll come across as a troll if I started airing my view that psychologists and psychiatrists are fraudsters so I'll stop there!).
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by marshallp 14y ago
I'll just have to disagree with you there. Your definition of algebra (beyond the naming of symbols, or variables in programming parlance) is not useful to most people. Where are they going to apply log or sqrt in everday life or even equat
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by marshallp 14y ago
I agree with you, I just feel like that is basically the understanding of variables (names of concepts) and not maths. So, you need to understand what measurements to take/can be taken, and then set up that system and feed it to the black b
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by marshallp 14y ago
Algebra (the art of rearranging equations) is not necessary anymore (you just need to know how to realize how things can be quantified - the naming of variables of computer programming). Arithmetic beyond use of calculator is useless. Maths
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by marshallp 14y ago
Statistics was around then. I consider science to be the art of making correct predictions. So you need a hypothesis (in the form of equations or computer programs) that can be tested on observations leading to correct predictions. Extrover
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by marshallp 14y ago
Why do people need to know the under the hood stuff. As I mentioned in my other comment, we have the concept of division of labour. Also, programming and machine learning will increasingly be most of what people's job description. In fact,
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by marshallp 14y ago
That's missing the point entirely. I'm pretty sure you don't know the exact materials and the process for making the shoes you might be wearing. There are probably no shoe factories left in america. They same applies to the black box machin
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by marshallp 14y ago
Well, I can't argue with the specifics of your problem since I don't know about it (but the general point that this doesn't justify the current maths system for 99% of people). However, at some point in time, computers will be taking over a
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by marshallp 14y ago
You don't need the teaching of abstract concepts. Why not just let students roam free with "programming", a set of api's, so they can roam with free with creativity. Why even teach arithmetic? Just given them the arithmetic computer functio
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by marshallp 14y ago
Even if your argument is true, that maths is needed for that particular task, it doesn't justify teaching it to 99% of people. Also, the math you mention could have been taught as a set of computer programming functions (taught in a few hou
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by marshallp 14y ago
Except the examples you've given like extroverts vs introverts are not scientifically rigorous and the terms already existed well before him all around the world in different cultures (outgoing vs shy/retiring etc).
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by marshallp 14y ago
There's a few problems with the article. The rules argument he makes could instead be made for the more useful field of computer programming. Also, the reductionist paradigm is dead. It worked for finding laws of physics and some chemistry,

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