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by ogrisel 9y ago
While Demis Hassabis and probably some DeepMind researchers use some understandings from the neuroscience literature as an inspiration for their work, I am pretty sure that a majority of DeepMind researchers would rather use a combination
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by ogrisel 9y ago
I think that's the goal.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Nuclear will be capped to 50% of France production. Coal will close. Natural gas is comparatively expensive in Europe. Large hydro is almost saturated (no more mountains). So renewables (wind and solar) will have to grow as a mechanical con
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Sure but that will surely help make it happen significantly faster. Time is of the essence when it comes to decarbonification of the economy and climate change.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Laws often last much longer than elected politicians that passed the law. Car manufacturers need stable and long term guidance to get investors and banks to follow them.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
Here is the link to sundrop farms for those not familiar with the concept: http://www.sundropfarms.com/facilities/
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by ogrisel 9y ago
and the risk that a catastrophic event would bankrupt a large nuclear power plants operator or even an entire state.
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by ogrisel 9y ago
The first factory is not complete yet. According to Wikipedia: Tesla held a grand opening on July 29, 2016 of the operational facility, having only three of the final 21 "blocks" of the gigafactory built out, or approximately 14 p
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by ogrisel 10y ago
> thus producing more power more power than if the temperatures were higher in the UK, not more power than if the UK had the solar irradiance and winter daylight times of Sahara. It's still much more efficient to do produce electric
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by ogrisel 10y ago
I agree but it is likely that the amount of concrete used to build those spheres is limited compared to say building a highway or a city. This is to be normalized by the amount of used energy storage / traveled roadway / inhabited
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by ogrisel 10y ago
You first need to go vegetarian to convince others to do the same.
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by ogrisel 10y ago
If you want to quickly check that your code works on a Linux server, the windows subsystem for linux is quick way to do this without spawning a VM. That does not replace continuous integration on a real Linux host but that might be a good w
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Good book to learn the deep learning concepts. The official tensorflow tutorials are also good to learn the programming part which is not covered in the book.
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by ogrisel 10y ago
But to be able to decouple the vision pipeline you need a lot of manual annotation work which is tedious.
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by ogrisel 10y ago
"fossil-fuel intensive synthetic fertilizers" or "inorganic synthetic fertilizers" NH3 in particular is commonly synthesized by combining N2 from the atmosphere with H2 extracted from CH4 (natural gas).
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by ogrisel 10y ago
The aforementioned google translate paper suggests so. My hunch is that TPUs work with a mix of 8 bit and 16 bit integer arithmetic on quantized networks with quantized data [1]. As far as I know nobody has managed to make SGD work properly
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Sure but at the same time we are not staring directly at light bulbs for 8 hours a day.
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Maybe it does not use the same opening style when it plays against a version of itself. It would be very interesting to have pro-players comment on published records of alphago self-play. Maybe alphago has discovered a new balance between b
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by ogrisel 10y ago
The point is that there is no optimized cuDNN equivalent for AMD hardware at this point.
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Thanks :)
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Indeed virii are part of the evolutionary process and can insert genes into hosts from various species. Such genes can be successful from an evolutionary standpoint even if some of the host species disappear.
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Then the total batch size is growing with the number of GPUs and the convergence might be impacted both in terms of speed and solution quality (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04836 ). I could believe you if tell you m
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Funny, I also implemented mine a while ago (mostly un-maintained but I still use it): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualkeyring/ I also thought I was clever and the first to do it ;) I have been thinking about a
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by ogrisel 10y ago
At least MXNet is a good one that deserves more publicity and backing (in terms of maintenance effort). I find it better for the community to have AWS back a good existing open source project than to re-invent a very similar wheel one more
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by ogrisel 10y ago
But neither declarative DL toolkits (theano & tensorflow) use that C++ language feature: the computation graph is typically defined by writing a python script to assembles building blocks dynamically at runtime. Once the graph is define
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by ogrisel 10y ago
What is really fishy is evaluating training time speed ups in terms of throughput. The latency induced by the parallelism mechanism (when using asynchronous data parallelism) might seriously hamper the convergence speed. The presence of thi
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by ogrisel 10y ago
No it means writing a program that defines the structure of a computation graph lazily (without executing the nodes when defining the model) so as to reuse that compute graph in a later step of the programs. The computation graph is an in-m
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by ogrisel 10y ago
For deep convnets the vanishing gradient problems can mostly be solved by using residual architectures. See: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05027 This is kind of related to solving the vanishing gradient issue in RNNs by u
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by ogrisel 10y ago
Note that this study is about "in vitro" analysis. High iodine contents and toxic compounds might make this algae not suitable as bovine fodder. Furthermore this is tropical algae and it traditionally hand harvested making it ver
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by ogrisel 10y ago
More than electricity, heating can be very cheap when your farm is on top of an active volcano. In Iceland many greenhouses can grow tomatoes and bananas because they have direct access to hot water from the ground bellow.

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