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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by XuMiao on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:41PM (#19165218)
What do you think of life-long learning scenario that models are trained incrementally forever? For example, I train a model with 1000 examples, it sucks. The next guy pick it up and train a new one by putting a regularizer over mine. It might still suck. But after maybe 1000 people, the model begins to get significantly better. Now, I will pickup what I left and improve it by leveraging the current best. This continues forever. Imagine that this community is supported by a block chain. We won't be relying on big companies any more eventually.
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by jacquesm on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:30PM (#19165687)
What is it with the word 'blockchain' that will make people toss it into otherwise completely unrelated text?
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by Varcht on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:45PM (#19166355)
You know, we love our overloaded terms? In this context it means "Decentralized storage". Keeps people on their toes, keeps the AI guessing.
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by oehpr on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:07PM (#19166031)
nothing, they're describing a series of content addressable blocks that link back to their ancestors. Which is a good application of a block chain. Think IPFS.

It's not cryptocurrency. Though cryptocurrency definitely popularized the technique.

Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by fwip on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:14PM (#19166589)
IPFS isn't a blockchain just like git isn't a blockchain. "Blockchain" has semantic meaning that "a chain of blocks" does not.
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by SiempreViernes on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:10PM (#19166066)
That recent period in time when it was a license to print money?
Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by Terr_ on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:58PM (#19167889)
> What do you think of life-long learning scenario that models are trained incrementally forever?

The same as the "life-long" coding scenario where monoliths are tweaked incrementally forever.

They may have niches but they'll kinda suck, because the underlying problem-space evolves too. Code loses value with age.