The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car

Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by relkor on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:10PM (#10746041)

To be fair, this is machine learning we are talking about, not algebraic topology. The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain rule...

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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by walrus on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:56PM (#10747659)

> The experts in ML are still proud of the fact that they figured out the chain rule...

I assume you're talking about using backpropagation with gradient descent. Backpropagation itself isn't all that interesting. The interesting part is that it works for practical problems and doesn't get stuck in shallow local minima.

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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by cinquemb on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @01:34PM (#10746196)

Nevermind that they have no idea of the behavior of the partial derivatives nor attempts to model such when presenting their "latest and greatest", at least from most of the stuff I've read that's been posted here…

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