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by vladislav 8y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/546066/googles-ai-masters... are you willing to put money on your time estimate?
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by vladislav 8y ago
That same sentence made me stop reading. It's perhaps not an obvious point, but there are several dimensions that require excellence to succeed in entrepreneurship, and failing at passing the bar on any one of those dimensions make the
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by vladislav 8y ago
Net win is the key word here. These systems are designed to improve safety, which is a pretty low bar, and should not be marketed to the contrary. NCAP standards read like they were written by the manufacturers themselves, to be able to pas
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by vladislav 8y ago
Agreed. There's a huge difference between mathematical beauty in theoretical physics and in economics, the latter not really being on the radar in modern math. The author is conflating mathematical beauty with the "fancy math&quot
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by vladislav 8y ago
"LASER achieves these results by embedding all languages jointly in a single shared space (rather than having a separate model for each)". There could be a good reason for why the mutual embedding of several languages works better
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by vladislav 8y ago
I don't at all recommend limiting yourself to self-study when you start this endeavor, it's too daunting given all the unknown unknowns. To start with it helps a lot to take courses, even if it means sitting in/enrolling in n
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by vladislav 8y ago
These statements are consistent modulo zero measure (probability) sets. For instance: there are infinitely many rational numbers, but the probability of picking a rational number at random from the interval [0,1] is zero.
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by vladislav 8y ago
Helm.ai | Onsite | Bay Area | Research Engineer, SWE, SRE Helm.ai is building the next generation of AI technology for autonomous driving. On the road toward full stack L4/L5 AI software, we are productizing in the ADAS space with a su
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by vladislav 8y ago
"But then it seems that inevitably you get to the point where your real-time classifiers are basically running the show anyway so are you back to - what good is a Map anyway?" Yep, pretty much. Robust real-time perception, for a w
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by vladislav 8y ago
Hey, I'm not against recreational activities, everyone needs them to stay sane. It becomes different when an accidental bitcoin millionaire decides to put real money behind a meaningless task to watch someone else dance. At that point
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by vladislav 8y ago
"My point was perhaps too broad - but deigning to tell someone their pursuit isn't as worthy as one you think they should be pursuing is, frankly, pointless." That seems to assume immutable human values, and/or a postmod
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by vladislav 8y ago
High end is a very relative term. No doubt it requires talented people, but you don't see Feynman working on it.
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by vladislav 8y ago
"Whether X is indeed better than Y is moot." Actually it's probably one of the most worthwhile questions, philosophically and practically. If this question doesn't get properly considered, we end up with blind glorificat
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by vladislav 8y ago
I actually have nothing against frivolous spending, since buying a yacht doesn't subtract from the high end talent pool. If you're going to put up a few mil to solve a math problem, why not something like P v. NP, or the Riemann h
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by vladislav 8y ago
One can think of many better ways to harness human intelligence than work on an arbitrary puzzle... unless this is an interview for something much bigger.
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by vladislav 8y ago
"Bringing Robotaxis to market is very capital intensive". With the front and center approaches rooted in the DARPA Grand Challenges yes, with much of that money being spent on propping up simplifying assumptions that break at the
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by vladislav 8y ago
"As soon as you get any degree of success, you disappear up your own arse and you lose it forever" - Thom Yorke
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by vladislav 8y ago
It seems like a stretch to call this a big discovery in the math world. Even if it had been published in a top journal etc, it would be unlikely to be heralded as a major achievement.
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by vladislav 8y ago
There are some interesting connections between GPs and neural networks. Deep neural networks with random weights concentrate about gaussian processes, so the two may not be so far apart in practice. https://arxiv.org/pdf&#x2
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by vladislav 8y ago
Exactly. But hey cool concept cars make for pretty pitchdecks. Technology will solve itself if you just throw money at it, right? Next up, we'll have startups whose main differentiation is designing the interiors of time machines.
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by vladislav 8y ago
Way more than 3 companies. The reason I'd want to see a vision-only mappless demo is because Lidar and HD maps are a crutch, which make it easy to create a 90% functional demo, yet are insufficient to cover the long tail end, which is
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by vladislav 8y ago
Yeah. I'm saying there are plenty of companies capable of this particular technical feat given the offline HD mapping + Lidar, so it doesn't justify the amount invested in and valuation of Zoox. This technology was available years
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by vladislav 8y ago
Meh. It's a demo. Doesn't prove reliability. With an HD map, slow speed and plenty of Lidar sensors, it's like a car on rails. Doesn't tell you what happens at the very long tail end, for instance when that HD map is not
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by vladislav 8y ago
Indeed. They're able to raise lots of cash with presentation skills, but in reality their business plan is completely bottlenecked on super reliable perception/intent prediction AI, on which they aren't showing evidence of an
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by vladislav 8y ago
How do we test human readiness for driving? We give them a driving test, which takes all of 40 minutes. This is possible only because we know a lot about what it means to be a human. To test self-driving technology we need to understand a l
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by vladislav 8y ago
I think the counterintuitive aspect of problem solving at that level is how nondeterministic it is. It is no doubt that learning everything you can about a problem is critical to setting yourself up for being able to solve it, but this can
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by vladislav 8y ago
Are you confident the majority of the gains weren't made in the first year? It's exactly my point that knowing when to give it a rest is hard to estimate, and those who work on these problems professionally are likely to just keep
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by vladislav 8y ago
Is that a generic claim? I'm making a specific, counterintuitive, and empirical claim about productivity and work-style of mathematicians, having been on both sides. Even for professional mathematicians, the solution to a problem can c
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by vladislav 8y ago
In my experience, being an amateur mathematician is more fun that doing it professionally, and potentially just as productive. You don't get nearly as much time for math, so you make the most of it and work only on the most interesting
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by vladislav 9y ago
relatively mundane when subjected to appropriate representations . You omitted the important part of my statement. And the difficulty humans encounter in reasoning about the nature of abstract thought itself is something I also pointed out

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