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by wookietrader 13y ago
Do they still ask for your business idea when you register for their beta?
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by wookietrader 13y ago
Okay, I should have worded that differently. There is also a paper of Salakhutdinov learning a kernel for Gaussian processes. That'd account for that as well. My point is (I did not really write that above) that deep learning does not stand
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by wookietrader 13y ago
Yes you are right. Still, deep learning has done nothing more than classification right now. What about predictive distributions, regression of complicated outputs (e.g. periodic data) and, most of all, heterogenous inputs? Right: nothing i
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by wookietrader 13y ago
If an article says that Andrew Ng is "the man at the center of deep learning" it's just not right. Geoffrey Hinton's and Yoshua Bengio's impact were at least as high as his, if not much higher.
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by wookietrader 13y ago
This has been said about neural nets two times already. Sadly, they did never deliver. There are still applications where e.g. random forests beat the crap out of all kinds of deep learning algorithms in (a) training time (b) predictive qua
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by wookietrader 13y ago
Wrong. Neural networks are affinity invariant. You can rotate, skew, translate the input data however you want, the optimum stays the same. Same for SVMs.
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by wookietrader 13y ago
Here's why: In 95% of the cases you create a git branch, you check it out. In 95% of the cases you create a directory, you do not cd into it.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
There is a machine learning that is not related to big data, you know. Many interesting problems in machine learning, and most of the hard ones, have a computational demand for which a single i7 and 16 GB of RAM are more than enough.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
It's at least one way which has been advocated by leading researcher of the field. If you think differently, you should give references and explain what your AGI definition is.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
With respect to Myo vs Leap. Tracking is much precise than EMG based posture estimation. Unless these guys made a leap of at least one order of magnitude compared to current state of the art, expect the LEAP to be buch better in terms of ge
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by wookietrader 14y ago
To me it only looks like a limitation. So yeah, you can write a custom class. But you will need to add a custom "save state" and "load state" in your class' __iter__ method. So all the benefits go away.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
If they could only be pickled...
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by wookietrader 14y ago
ATLAS is a very bad name to pick; it's already taken when it comes to numerical data processing.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Not sure why this being downvoted. Provably friendly strong AI is actually sth that researcher care about, yet it is difficult to do because "friendly" has to be defined.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
I really like the standard statistician stance "machine learning is basically just statistics". There is so much hate in it. :) The FAQ is full of this. For those who want to know the difference--and there are two--let me add the following
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Is the idea of organizing tasks for me depending on their length new? It feels awesome. Maybe this is the personal secreatry I have been waiting for all year.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Actually, you get it wrong. A Kernel function k(x, y) is a function that calculates phi(x)^T phi(y) for some phi. That means, it calculcates the dot product in a higher dimensional space of two data points ; it does not do the transformati
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by wookietrader 14y ago
I don't have any output. No url is returned. :( Idea sound pretty cool, I'd use it.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
No. Deep learning is not about fixing the residuals of the current chain. Deep learning isn't even about residuals in the first place. It's about (1) finding good representations of your data (aka feature learning), (2) then adding a discri
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Yes you can. Check out the publications by Ciresan on MNIST, have a look at Hinton's dropout paper or at the Kaggle competition that used deep nets. Or try it yourself and spend a descent amount of time on hyper parameter tuning. :)
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by wookietrader 14y ago
What exactly is wrong what I wrote? I did not say that all nets nowadays would be trained by RBMs (in the contrary, I said quite the opposite, that new algorithms had been developed). I just said that they were part of the breakthrough.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
The breakthrough was the insight that while you cannot train a deep neural net at once with backprop, you can train one layer after the other greedily with an unsupervised objective and later fine tune it with standard backprop. Years later
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Neural Nets cannot loop (unless they are recurrent neural nets) and are memory bound.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
No. All currently used deep learning algorithms are special cases of neural networks. The reason why this is called "deep" learning is that before 2006, no one knew how to efficiently train neural nets with more than 1 or 2 hidden layers. (
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Since you can check what user added what link (using diff), you can still use the reputation threshold. If that does not scale, just use the minimum reputation of the editors' reputations.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Thanks for making this point. It's incredible how many people taking part in discussions about sexism are not aware of this very basic fact.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
As far as I can tell from the abstract (the rest is behind a paywall) this study will not help in the question of causality. By such studies we can not tell whether violent games -> aggressive behaviour or just, which probably n
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by wookietrader 14y ago
Elderly care and health will actually spawn a lot of tech jobs as well. As druiid said, robotics is one field. But tech is basically all over health nowadays as well. So yes, there will be plenty of jobs in tech.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
> why not wear the same thing all the time? Because it's not considered to be "normal". If you wear the same clothes every time, people will notice and think you are weird. You don't want people to think you are weird if you startup.
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by wookietrader 14y ago
> Andrew Ng, in his machine learning class [1] urges people do use Matlab instead of Python, because in his experience people develop faster with Matlab than wit any other tool/language. Never trust academics when it comes to programmin

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