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by tgflynn 14y ago
The TSP optimization problem is polynomial time reducible to the TSP decision problem by binary search. Suppose we have an algorithm D(TSP,C) which returns 1 if the TSP has a path of cost <= C. Then the basic idea for an algorithm for t
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by tgflynn 14y ago
Have you read this page : http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ The first sentence under Reserved Instances is : Reserved Instances give you the option to make a low, one-time payment for each instance you want to reserve and in turn receiv
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by tgflynn 14y ago
This is an area I've been curious about. Is it currently possible to generate CNC instructions automatically from a 3D model or are manual steps required ?
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by tgflynn 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance (Rochester, NY) Data mining, predictive analytics, intelligent systems, computer vision. website: http://cogniception.com/consulting.html email: tgflynn@cogniception.com
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Survives ? From what I hear it's already being applied to medicine.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
I probably should have said "important" instead of "interesting". How many of those companies are doing research that can be compared to what came out of Bell Labs in the 60's and 70's - the transistor, the laser, ... ? IBM's work on advanc
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by tgflynn 15y ago
What about Watson ? IBM is still one of only very few companies doing truly interesting research.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Of course all these numbers are hypothetical, I have no idea what the actual Netflix numbers are, but aren't you assuming 100% profit margin ? If you actually have a machine learning application that increases annual revenue by 10% and your
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by tgflynn 15y ago
I couldn't reply to Estragon's comment below, so I'm replying here. I'm convinced of it primarily because I'm convinced that the majority of activities that human workers perform do not require general intelligence (ie. strong AI). This in
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Did you win the competition ? If not what was your rank, if you don't mind sharing ? I'd be really interested to know how much impact this could have.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
But what if 10% improvement means 10 M$/year ? Anyway I think there are many applications where getting the absolute best performance isn't as important as finding the problem, figuring out how to apply a machine learning model to it (which
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by tgflynn 15y ago
The company I used to work for had a performance based product. They only got payed if they actually showed improved accuracy against a given evaluation set. Then they got a fraction of the cost savings (say 1 year's worth). This seems li
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by tgflynn 15y ago
That's definitely not my world and one reason I left big-corp in the first place. EDIT ADDED: It seems like a really broken market if buyer decisions are completely orthogonal to the product being purchased.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
There's definitely a need for people to continue working on developing new models and ideas. I think that's where academic research fits. That said the academic world could do a much better job of effectively evaluating and comparing mode
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Another thing that increases difficulty is that depending on people's background and experience there are very different views on what is most important. For example is my view exploratory data analysis and visualization are less important
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Sorry about that, thanks for letting me know. It should be fixed now.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Anyone who can earn a PhD can learn to program but being good at engineering the very complex processes that are needed for effective machine learning applications is a skill that is not so easily acquired. I've worked with quite a number o
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by tgflynn 15y ago
This technology will change the world more than the Internet or any other technology in human history. You're right that adoption is very slow. I'm convinced that businesses could save trillions of dollars by applying existing weak AI to t
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by tgflynn 15y ago
I don't know much about javascript implementations. Is there no foreign-function interface available ? If you can interface with C you can interface with Fortran (with a little extra work).
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by tgflynn 15y ago
I was trying to use EditText's in ListView items. The focus handling is completely broken, but nothing in the Android documentation suggested there was anything wrong with trying to do this. It was only after Googling through many posts th
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by tgflynn 15y ago
It's still not working for me.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
This link seems to be inaccessible.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
But if given some set of tasks and a program A which performs them one can show that there exists a program B which performs the same tasks and is 100x smaller than program A (taking into account language/framework implementations) doesn't
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by tgflynn 15y ago
But how many lines of code does it take to implement the language that allows them to implement TCP in 160 LOC ?
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by tgflynn 15y ago
It seems to me that a huge amount of developer effort tends to be expended in mapping data between different data structures as required by different algorithms or API's. If a way could be found to automatically discover a set of feasible a
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Try reading what I actually wrote instead of what your preconceptions and prejudices are telling you. It took my a day to find out that ListView's do not work.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Maybe this is why so much software these days looks like it was written by unsupervised youngsters. I just wasted a day trying to get ListView's to work in Android only to find out that, well, they don't work, so you need to use something e
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by tgflynn 15y ago
You would think that if there were something real here more evidence of "verifiable" NDE experiences would have become available. Instead articles like this are still rehashing cases from 10 or 15 years ago.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
This is an extremely misleading title. The post is a rather long excerpt from a book. Most of the information it contains is more than 10 years old and will be familiar to anyone who has ever been curious enough to read about the subject.
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by tgflynn 15y ago
Anyone have an idea about how this would compare with current GPU performance ? My impression is that GPU's are currently way ahead of CPU's in floating point performance (though maybe not for 64 bit ?). EDIT: To make this question a bit m

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