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Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by fgimenez on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:58PM (#330726)
Life is like being a reinforcement agent in a large world. We just need to raise our epsilon on our epsilon-greedy decision processes if we hope to learn from risk.

on a related note: AI is damn cool

Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by babyshake on Monday October 13, 2008 @12:22AM (#330742)
that's certainly a different takeaway from mine, but I can appreciate it.
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by swombat on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:34AM (#330859)
I still think they should have shown the kid crashing his bike at the end.
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by bigbang on Monday October 13, 2008 @04:00AM (#330872)
They showed a bandage. Probably hes successfully riding after a crash(it coincides with the words) :)
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by swombat on Monday October 13, 2008 @11:16AM (#331073)
That doesn't fulfill my deep emotional need to see kids crashing their bikes.
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by shawndrost on Monday October 13, 2008 @04:29AM (#330884)
This is more irritating than inspiring to me. Take the life of any prodigy and you can cherry-pick context-free moments where they appear shitty. Jordan, for instance, was passed over his first high school tryout because he was too short [1]. He heroically grew taller over the summer and owned continuously for the rest of his life, except at baseball.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan#Early_years

Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by jseek on Monday October 13, 2008 @05:35AM (#330909)
You may want to also check out http://www.scholarspot.com tons more videos like this under the motivation category
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by liuliu on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:19AM (#330852)
Other failures can not ever earn a record in history.
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by eru on Monday October 13, 2008 @06:58PM (#331680)
Is the snow intensional? Or is it just my computer?
Re:YouTube - Famous Failures by endlessvoid94 on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:24PM (#330702)
that's a great little video that nicely summarizes failure.