Re:Have We Forgotten about Geometry in Computer Vision?
by TeMPOraL on Friday April 28, 2017 @06:55AM
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> the present day internet, technically speaking, a marvel
The infrastructural parts are marvelous indeed; as they have been for decades. If you mean the web, it's a marvel... that it works at all. It's a "marvelous" pile of bad engineering bolted on as fast as humanly possible.
I guess GP's worry is that if a field gets dominated by people with no respect for the quality of their work, the whole field will be built out of bad tools - which is in long-term harmful for everyone, specialists and laymen alike.
Other than reminiscing about the halcyon days of the web (which is a forever moving target of 'how it was when I grew up'), it's the present day internet, technically speaking, a marvel.
What's exciting about deep learning becoming a commodity isn't seeing what everybody can do with it, but what the will be built standing on it's shoulders.