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by svantana 9y ago
>But the best deal with regards to GPUs is to buy your own and put it in your office. Of course, if you need to use it _all_ the time (or need to heat the space). The whole point of cloud computing is to share those resources with others
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by svantana 9y ago
It is my understanding that the system uses wins to learn to estimate the value of board positions: the position just before the win should be highly valued for the winner and inversely so for the loser. Going back further in time, there wi
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by svantana 9y ago
Totally agree, though it's not viable to start a small-ish spotify alternative today because of the licensing situation. The rights owners really need to get together and create a generic streaming license, similar to what is offered t
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by svantana 9y ago
...which makes sense because true exponentials cannot exist in physical reality; what looks exponential is the beginning of a sigmoid or bell curve. So the question becomes what the limiting factors are and when they will kick in, thus endi
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by svantana 9y ago
Yes it's element-wise, it's defined in the sidebar tab "Operators". In general the syntax seems closely aligned with Matlab, where all the math functions are elementwise.
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by svantana 9y ago
Actually in this sense NNs are actually smarter than humans - NNs can guide you to its weak points, through backprop. That is indeed how adversarial examples are found. Vice versa, people are notoriously bad at finding their own weaknesses
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by svantana 9y ago
Those are indeed tricky things, but surely they are much easier than actually getting users to care about your product in this attention economy? Unless the product is in an underserved niche, in which case scaling up will prove near imposs
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by svantana 9y ago
Well there's a huge difference between monophonic and polyphonic pitch shifting. Monophonic pitch shifting (especially in the sub-semitone range that Auto-Tune does) has been done with high quality since the 1970's.
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by svantana 9y ago
Oh dear, this guy has no limit to his self-aggrandizement, and the interviewer surely does very little to fact-check his outrageous statements. The facts are more like: auto-tune is the combination of pitch detection and pitch shifting, two
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by svantana 9y ago
Of course they did, I was merely challenging the implied message that it is now 'fast enough', that the speed problem is solved.
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by svantana 9y ago
Who said anything about a "problem"? It's a fight between corporations, I don't see anything about this that is bad for society at large. Apple already turns a huge profit on each phone, it's not likely that they wo
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by svantana 9y ago
While the 100x speedup sounds impressive, a raw speed number without details regarding hardware is pretty meaningless. I'm guessing they got the 20x realtime speed from running it on their new TPU hardware, which they say can do 180 Tf
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by svantana 9y ago
Wait, what? Surely government prosecutors aren't motivated by monetary gains?
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by svantana 9y ago
Yeah that's a tricky one. How about using the money to buy some of their sovereign debt, and then forgive that debt? Or probably even better, involve some NGO that already works in the region.
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by svantana 9y ago
So to recap, a Swedish telco bribed officials in Uzbekistan and the settlement goes to US and Dutch authorities, because the money was wired through New York bank(s)? Granted, $1B is not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, but shou
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by svantana 9y ago
Well that and the fact that nobody else is allowed to import one of the known ingredients, coca leaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Use_of_stimulants_in...
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by svantana 9y ago
Actually, looking at geekbench, the intel processors still have a slight edge per core (4500 vs 4200 in the single core case). You're right about power consumption though. But regardless, there's so much legacy software that would
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by svantana 9y ago
> a lot of smaller toy retailers (both online and offline) will spring up to take Toys r Us' space Why would anything take its space? It's still a highly valuable brand, that I'm sure the next owner(s) will want to leverag
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by svantana 9y ago
You're assuming every trial is of equal difficulty, which seems unlikely. I would guess that the system can classify some images with very good confidence, while others are more of a coin toss. But you're correct that the 'st
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by svantana 9y ago
Not only that, but saying "rich" is usually shorthand for famous and/or having high social status. The money itself seems to me the least interesting aspect of "making it". Especially in the startup world, what most
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by svantana 9y ago
I don't think you understand correlation. For crime and milkdrinking to correlate, criminals would need to drink more (or less) milk than non-criminals. A better example would be: umbrella-carrying and windshield-wiping tend to correla
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by svantana 9y ago
If it is, then it's very thorough. Looking at the OP's profile, there's a link to the site and everything. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction...
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by svantana 9y ago
It should be fairly anti-symmetric, since the dynamics of losing are similar to those of winning. So instead of exponential looking, it's shaped like exp(rank) - exp(-rank). (just confirmed this with a quick simulation)
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by svantana 9y ago
Well things were not much better under Obama. In the last ten years, I've had European friends denied entry, or even detained for hours on end, for the most innocuous of reasons. And regardless of what "most Americans" want,
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by svantana 9y ago
The 8-bit is actually reasonable: they have one output per possible value, so 16 bit would mean 65k outputs... They could probably do a secondary step that adds less significant bits. The low samplerate is probably because it's origina
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by svantana 9y ago
I'm sorry but is the Deep Learning Hype strong enough to warp people's sensory perception? Every sample on this page sounds terrible IMHO, and pretty much what you would get if you would spend 10 minutes implementing the most naiv
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by svantana 9y ago
This makes for a cute soundbite, but it doesn't mean what it implies. You could, for example, have a bunch of expensive headphones with frequency response that varies randomly in the [-1,+1] dB range, and a bunch of cheap headphones th
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by svantana 9y ago
Well logarithmic doesn't make sense, because it never gets to zero. However something like p^0.42 (sound pressure with an exponent<1) works well because it is similar to the perceived sound level. An interesting connection is that t
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by svantana 9y ago
It is only natural that the people in possession of resources are reluctant to share them; that is also the case in most countries, in my experience. The weird thing about the U.S. is that so many below-median-income folks are right-wing --
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by svantana 9y ago
> This is very useful if say you want to very quickly and quietly launch something towards another satellite. Surely you could already do that with Orbital ATK's Pegasus? 1000 lbs is plenty of explosives. It seems to me this is just

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