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by snikolov 16y ago
Numenta's most recent algorithms are actually very strongly neurobiological. If you have looked at earlier work, you should check out the most recent white paper from a couple of months ago, which detail more than year of recent efforts in
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Dogs' visual systems are pretty sophisticated. Trying to mimic one of those first allows one to somewhat simplify things while getting a lot of insight into the human visual system which operates on basically the same principles.
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by snikolov 16y ago
It is certainly rare, but Numenta has been doing it for the past 6 years, and for several years before that at the Redwood Neuroscience Institute from which it spun off. In doing so, Numenta undoubtedly stands on the foundation of signific
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by snikolov 16y ago
Numenta does fall under brain based. I'm not sure what Vicarious are working on, but recently Numenta transitioned to radically more biological algorithms. It would be interesting to compare the two if Vicarious comes out with more detail
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by snikolov 16y ago
"Brain-based" AI should stay in the dark ages. Optimization-based AI is the present and the future. Humans can see. Computer vision systems suck. There's a perfectly good one in our brains. Why not try to understand what already works?
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by snikolov 16y ago
Thanks, this is all great stuff. I've been meaning to read some of Smale's papers on learning theory. It might be over a lot of people's heads though, since we advertised this is an introduction to basic concepts that one might encounter
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by snikolov 16y ago
Thanks! This is a great list.
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Ask HN: Machine learning in 5 papers. What should they be?
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by snikolov 16y ago
I've found this set of tutorials to be a great resource for picking up many machine learning methods http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/ Somewhat complementary is this set of implementations (in Python) of many common machine learning tech
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by snikolov 16y ago
Beyond just learning theory (although this is crucial), make sure to get your hands dirty implementing something, talking to knowledgeable people (professors, researchers in industry, classmates with common interests), and finding out what
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by snikolov 16y ago
Your social life is largely what you make of it. I haven't hung out much at Stanford, and I'm not sure what the parent considers to be a normal social life, but as an MIT student, I would advise the OP to not let such stereotypes deter him
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by snikolov 16y ago
I saw your info session at MIT today. I am a senior in EECS at MIT doing a 5 year S.B./M.Eng. program. I like machine learning/vision and robotics and would love to get my hands dirty writing software that controls real physical systems.
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by snikolov 16y ago
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. It talks about good and bad design in everyday objects through lots of enlightening and amusing stories and examples (doors that look like you should push them but you actually have to pull
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by snikolov 16y ago
I've always appreciated having someone (a skilled professor, a peer, or an upperclassman) point out interesting things in whatever I am studying. That way, it's easier to get "the point" of the subject or lesson. A lot of textbooks are de
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by snikolov 16y ago
You could argue against affirmative action on the grounds that it is only about some nebulous notion of diversity. But it is not --- or at least shouldn't be. It should be about evaluating people's achievements relative to the opportunities
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by snikolov 16y ago
As an EECS senior at MIT, I haven't measured how many hours a week I work, but it certainly feels like "all the time" is a pretty close guess. I think if you make the startup your priority, and take only the CS requirements (which can easi
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by snikolov 16y ago
The author does imply that great teachers have a lot to do with it. At a later age, when one is out of school or almost out of school, one obviously needs to show more personal initiative. And a lot of people here and elsewhere have asked
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by snikolov 16y ago
Thanks a lot for the suggestion! You've got a point apathy being a mechanism to avoid, or even rationalize failure. I realized something else: that winning gives you ownership and confidence. To use my previous example, If I had diregarde
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by snikolov 16y ago
As much as I support making it happen over making excuses, I sometimes find it a difficult distinction to make. Jason's story hits home for me in many ways. I was also an overachiever in high school who came home at 10pm from gymnastics, d
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by snikolov 16y ago
I took a class on networks with Ozdaglar and Acemoglu and tried (unsuccessfully) to apply this paper to a more special case of networks whose interconnectivity is influenced by geometry (actual physical positions). The short story is that t
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by snikolov 16y ago
Some people have already mentioned the benefits of a startup, but if you want to start your own company there are a couple of reasons why experience in a larger company might also help you do that (aside from just starting a company). YMMV
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by snikolov 16y ago
While this is a decent set of tips for design , the important thing to remember if you are actually giving a talk is that you are the presentation, not your slides. Edit: That said, the right visual aids can be important for deliverin
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by snikolov 16y ago
4th year EECS major here. I'm doing a 5 year bachelors/masters program. Do you typically take summer interns?
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Thanks for the quick reply! I feared as much. I will try making everything gray/black. re: Numenta -- certainly shoot me an email (snikolov@mit.edu) and I'll see what I can answer (if I am allowed to answer it :-)) If I can't, I can dire
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Thanks a lot for doing this. Here is mine http://snikolov.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/0/4/3904101/snikolov-... if you or anyone else has time to take a look. My goal with the colors was to make it scan-able by highlighting where I worked as
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by snikolov 16y ago
Numenta ( http://www.numenta.com ) is working on simulating how the brain (the neocortex in particular) recognizes patterns. It's an exciting recent field of research, and has little to do with neural networks, or other supposedly brain-in
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by snikolov 16y ago
The problem is that a lot of people don't learn how to learn until fairly late in their education. Whatever clarity of thought and healthy skepticism I have developed, I give most of the credit to the great teachers who challenged me. It
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This summer, I've mostly been saying 'machine learning', 'biological machine learning', 'artificial intelligence', 'programming', or 'artificial brains' depending on the person, the situation and where I want to try to take the conversation
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Yes, I have analogies but the very definition of an analogy precludes it being the thing it analogizes. ... How is gravitational force produced? Is it associated with an elementary particle, a graviton? You seem to suggest that analogies
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I also think that aliens might well have completely different mathematics. To me, the most compelling reason to think that is that the development of mathematics is rooted in our conscious perception of the world around us. Our conscious

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