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Re:AI Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10M Times Faster by koja86 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:19AM (#15160859)
From TFA: "...neural networks – a form of artificial intelligence..."

Have computer scientists switched to marketing or am I missing something?

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Re:AI Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10M Times Faster by thewopr on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:55AM (#15161194)
This is the kind of stuff that never makes into a journal article, but frequently gets cooked up by the university public relations/outreach staff. There is a huge incentive to make every piece of work as flashy as possible.

I'll also point out the 10M times faster thing. How was that estimated? If I have some really bad code that I'm using and I optimize it and it runs 10M times faster (not uncommon for scientific code) do I get to make this a big public headline? (the answer is: apparently yes).

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Re:AI Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10M Times Faster by red75prime on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:04PM (#15162849)
They are switched from the Mechanical Turk, if I am not mistaken. Humans are slow.
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Re:AI Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10M Times Faster by xaedes on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:46AM (#15160364)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15144588
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Re:AI Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10M Times Faster by tjalfi on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:12AM (#15159949)
The paper is available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08842.pdf
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