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by shas3 10y ago
I know I may be asking to go down a rabbit hole, but: (1) Does the NN use a deep architecture? (2) How does the CNN performance compare with other algorithms? (3) Have you looked at how performance varies with different features, frequency
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by shas3 10y ago
I think the diminishing returns is for the present and from the perspective of comforts of the present. From a savings perspective, there's no way more money in my retirement savings, kids' college funds, or for that $10k vacation
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Are there any features of brain-related signals that are biometric in nature?!
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by shas3 10y ago
Big ships are slow to turn. One systemic cause based on my experience in old-big companies is that if profit margins on some products are high, mid and some high level managers maximize that product (e.g. roll-to-roll manufactured films in
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by shas3 10y ago
We also need to hear from an important segment of the math population: those who burned out or dropped out for reasons related to math perceptions engendered by the math-competition culture. We all know people who did great at math or scien
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by shas3 10y ago
It is generally true. Less 'fancy' work, you get less money, irrespective of how critical your code/work is. It is an irrational element that is not necessarily driven by supply-demand dynamics.
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by shas3 10y ago
If you are interested in a longer account, I highly recommend mathematician/popularizer Marcus DuSautoy's Music of the Primes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_of_the_Primes
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by shas3 10y ago
But where's the link to centrophenoxine and racetams? Your link only talks about anticholinergic drugs. I have seen such results about benzodiazepine http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/benzodiazepine-use-may-ra...
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by shas3 10y ago
Hope someone writes a similar letter about nootropics. There's little evidence about their long term effects.
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This is pretty standard in old industrial companies.
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Walmart Labs is basically a Bay Area software/analytics start up- Kosmix that was acquired by Walmart. Hardly surprising they do this. On another note: a quirky thing I encountered on Twitter was Target hiring category theorists. http
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by shas3 10y ago
That's why you have Marshall Project. https://www.themarshallproject.org/#.t1nzcmhDj Sure, if you have money, it helps in that you are likely to be aware of the Marshall Project, able to contact them, etc. But other th
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On the academic-industry/start up side, I know of one such device which does this on a sphere: http://visisonics.com/visisonics-audiovisual-camera/ It works quite well in my experience with it. The spherical geome
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by shas3 10y ago
As someone who has only visited SV, I wonder: In order to avoid the crazy living expenses in SV and SF, why don't more people start companies within 100 miles of SV, in cheaper places like San Ramon/Castro Valley, Livermore, Sacra
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by shas3 10y ago
There is precedent for these types of acoustic attacks. One interesting paper from 2014 that comes to mind is this: https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ Basically, the idea is that even though clocks run at GHz
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by shas3 10y ago
Some chemical companies still have scientific glassblowing departments.
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by shas3 10y ago
I think both can be right. Ng and LeCun are talking about the real near future. Bostrom always came across as a speculative SF + philosophy kind of guy. Are there any specific critiques of his (and Yudkowsky/MIRI, Musk, etc.) arguments
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by shas3 10y ago
I think there is a categorization error here. Deep architectures are possible for many classes of learning algorithms: deep Bayesian nets, restricted Boltzman machines, graphical models, multilayer perceptrons, etc. Convolutional neural net
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by shas3 10y ago
Larger problem: mnist, images, and speech are probably low hanging fruits with rich features, large datasets, balanced datasets, etc. for which off the shelf packages work very well today.
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by shas3 10y ago
It almost sounds like a farce: Clinton gets indicted or loses face due to incompetence relating to the e-mail server scandal, and in her place is elected The Donald, a man who has committed worse transgressions and has the potential to do e
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by shas3 10y ago
I know people who work as "fixers" specializing in navigating such government restrictions and bureaucracy for local and foreign companies in India. It is more likely that the real reason for Apple's rejection is the whim of
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Foreign students are 1.13 million [1] and the sum total of all students in the US is around 20 million ( age < 25 + age > 25) [2]. How much can they really contribute marginally to tuition inflation given that they are only 5-10% of t
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by shas3 10y ago
> Some of people are calling themselves "Data Scientists" who don't know the difference between σ and MAD? Uh, that's just terminology. Data science is quite diverse and people have different backgrounds and work in d
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by shas3 10y ago
But this is bound to happen whenever a region reaches a level of success. There will be incumbents who are enjoying their cushy positions which they rode into when the times were greater than ever (e.g. Boston Brahmins, people in 'comp
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by shas3 10y ago
Most post secondary math, especially proof-oriented abstract math- analysis, topology, abstract algebra, probability and measure- all the kind of stuff that Tao probably teaches- really cannot be visualized with modern technology and relies
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Yeah, I don't understand how Portland will be the next SF or even the next Seattle. SF and Seattle are years ahead in economic growth. Further, SF and Seattle have solid schools and universities. Portland is quite mediocre in that resp
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by shas3 10y ago
I am reminded of an interesting observation by the mathematician Terence Tao about how our anonymity on the Internet and in a connected world is so fragile [1]. Basically, because there are only 3 billion internet users, every person can be
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> The only mystery to me was why Intel never just sucked it up and made a low-margin x86 chip to compete directly with ARM. High-margin addiction is typically deeply embedded in a company's culture. Every manager who is accountable
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Mine is but one perspective, as most comments everywhere are. One can also add Bloomfield to the list of neighborhoods with hipster-gentrification.
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There's certainly a hipster bubble in Pittsburgh around Oakland, Shadyside, -W-e-s-t- East Liberty, Southside, and Squirrel Hill which are the neighborhoods around CMU and U Pitt. The rest of Pittsburgh and the suburban region is prett

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