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by varelse 12y ago
"Better captchas that are optimized to be hard for machines, but easy for humans." Nope, not gonna work. You'd have to have the classifier/ANN parameters to generate these in the first place in order to locate its adver
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by varelse 12y ago
More like "The Flaw Lurking in Every Machine Learning Algorithm with a Gradient"(1) IMO. For example, in a linear or logistic classifier, the derivative of the raw output with respect to the input is the input itself while the de
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by varelse 12y ago
Seems like she's providing another example of the easiest way to make $1M in the real estate market: start with $10M...
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by varelse 12y ago
True, but do you really think it's going to take long for the crazies to come out of the woodwork and start discussing the irrefutable evidence for the alien seaside city on Titan? After that, when it gets refuted with clearer imagery
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by varelse 12y ago
Here we go again... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6979855/Nasa-photog... http://www.space.com/11057-science-claims-alien-life.html
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by varelse 12y ago
If that's the real reason Apple won't expose OpenCL and why Google has been aimlessly puttering with reinventing Ian Buck's Ph.D. thesis for the past 4 years, I just died a little inside. That said, IOS 8 exposes WebGL, no?
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by varelse 12y ago
Not to mention that the geniuses at Apple and Google continue to refuse to expose OpenCL or CUDA on their devices (or has this finally changed?).
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by varelse 12y ago
16-bit float has dynamic range from + or - 6.5e04 to 6.1e-05. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_f... That's plenty IMO for most inputs and weights. Where it gets tricky is in accumulation
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by varelse 12y ago
Say what? You can get insane single-precision efficiency out of GTX 980. Double-precision OTOH is a disaster (1/150 yes 1/150 as opposed to GK104's 1/30 or so). But for most machine learning, double-precision is ove
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by varelse 12y ago
You can probably figure out why 3x3 or smaller convolutions would be faster without much thought: hint FP performance is improving much faster than either internal bandwidth or CUDA kernel launch latency. And IMO this opens up the window fo
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by varelse 12y ago
It's my understanding that all you have to do is develop an interesting and popular GPU application and they will bend over backwards to help you make it run efficiently on their hardware. Compare and contrast doing so with giving them
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by varelse 12y ago
Your point? IMO it's an intriguing but completely unproven technology. In contrast, GPUs (a newer technology than quantum computers) waltzed out of the gate with 100x to 1,000x speedups over Pentium IV CPUs barely a decade into their
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by varelse 12y ago
Original article demonstrating that (currently) $15M of D-wave chip is at best worth $20,000 worth of GPUs... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6195/420 Surprisingly smart move on Google's part IMO g
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by varelse 12y ago
No I'm suggesting that the body is a complex system and if you solve one component of the problem, another component ultimately fails until you run out of components (hint, just like software) Every time a cell divides, it has a chance
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by varelse 12y ago
And here I thought my comments represented the ugly side of hacker news. I personally thought the above comment provided detail and references as to why this a tough nut to crack as well as what the current promising approaches may be. An
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by varelse 12y ago
It's a boondoggle in the making. Solving ageing is hard, and it's going to require fresh ideas, not throwing insane amounts of money at the same old, same old. The Scumbag 2nd law of thermodynamics is a really harsh mistress (Sol
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by varelse 12y ago
Corporations can afford to buy pricy network hardware for the people who need it (or they can skimp on engineering resources and congratulate themselves over and over again over how thrifty they're being). I read desktop to mostly mean
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by varelse 12y ago
I don't mean to be cynical, but other than for niche clusters in the home, wouldn't such technology be hobbled instantly by incoming bandwidth? Even in Germany, where the author lives, the top bandwidth appears to be about 50 Mb&#
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by varelse 12y ago
So what's the activation function on the last layer? Linear? With the intriguing exception of the Global Temporal Pooling layer, this matches up with a lot of my ideas for music analysis. Nice work!
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by varelse 12y ago
"View Course Record" is your friend... And then you can download them with coursistant or coursera-dl and have them wherever you go...
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by varelse 12y ago
Hey Michael, I loved your book on Quantum Computing, but don't get me started on D-Wave or as I see it: $15M for a huge magic box that might be faster than a $15,000 GPU cluster for some problems. But seriously, the book rocked, an
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by varelse 12y ago
Probably Dileep George et al. at Vicarious.... But since that's a $55M Black Hole with no published results other than a mostly meaningless claim to having solved Captcha (which wasn't all that tough a task to begin with), there&#
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by varelse 12y ago
Google was once heavily invested in just saying no to GPUs across the board. They even had a convenient FAQ from their platform team filled with all sorts of out of date FUD demonstrating why GPUs at Google were simply never going to happe
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by varelse 12y ago
Because the layoffs at AMD made them the market leader they are today!!!
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by varelse 12y ago
That's a wonderfully over the top and appropriate article on the subject. And it resonates with me because the solution I've generally taken as an engineer is to annoy everyone around me with facts and benchmarks until I find som
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by varelse 12y ago
In my case, 13 pounds, and yes 100% directly attributable to the mindful state induced by wearing the fitbit. But as I've said in my other two posts in this thread, my response to the information it provided does not seem to be the no
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by varelse 12y ago
I've exercised regularly since the age of 22 when my ballerina girlfriend dumped me for someone effectively identical to me in every major way except that he was ripped and he could dance (and oh yeah, Atari ST versus Amiga). He and I
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by varelse 12y ago
In late 2011, when I won a fitbit in a white elephant party, I came to the awful realization I only walked 4,000 steps per day. Over the next 2 months, I gradually upped my steps to 20,000 steps a day and lost 13 pounds. I am now known as
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by varelse 12y ago
> don't know that I agree CASP was founded specifically because people found decoys, but... Here's an example of what drove my work back then: Look at the energies and RMSDs (a measure of distance from the native structure) of
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by varelse 12y ago
I'm knowingly being a pedant and I apologize for that but they don't quite say that, rather they come awfully close to doing so. And I'm being a pedant because of all the low information sorts claiming this is a refutation o

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