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Re:Architectural Cross-Section of Kowloon Walled City
on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @05:21PM (#40870119)
Thanks for writing Glider! I adored that game as a kid and was part of how the possibilities of computing began to captivate my attention.
Re:Do Not Build SaaS
on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:55PM (#38850539)
Back when Elon started PayPal, SaaS was the frontier!
Do Not Build SaaS
Re:Extreme Parkour with Legged Robots
on Monday October 09, 2023 @03:55PM (#37824693)
Glad to see our universities making progress in this important area of national security.
You and Your Startup – Hamming’s Case for Hard Tech
Re:SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance
on Sunday September 03, 2023 @01:28PM (#37372205)
By this logic, the title would be equally correct if they wrote "Jimmy Buffet Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance"
Open Robotics (ROS) team is joining Intrinsic (Alphabet co)
Researcher builds AI rapper to spit sick rhymes – with mixed results
Re:Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database
on Sunday July 01, 2018 @03:47PM (#17437198)
It seems weird that Wired focuses on the negative edge case here. At Vicarious we use OptionImpact to make sure everyone is paid fairly, and I imagine that's the vast majority of users. Deceiving someone into taking a lowball salary is a very shortsighted way to run a business, and I have trouble believing any well-run company actually does this.
Re:RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:59PM (#15591006)
We talked about releasing more comprehensive proof of concept code, but ultimately decided against it. While helpful for other researchers, offering anyone on the internet a ready-to-use arbitrary captcha breaker seemed like a net-negative for society.
Navigating the new Gilded Age [pdf]
Re:Vicarious AI raises another $50M
on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:50PM (#14853232)
There are a few papers up on the site already and some more coming. As a business, publications aren't really the KPIs we prioritize (vs an academic-style lab like DM or OAI).
Re:General Game Playing with Schema Networks
on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:48PM (#14554514)
Here's a link to the paper as well (ICML 2017 preprint)
Re:Schema Networks from Vicarious: Zero-Shot Game Playing AI [pdf]
on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:42PM (#14554455)
Some additional results on other games in the blog post:
https://www.vicarious.com/general-game-playing-with-schema-n...
Killer robots? Superintelligence? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @01:17PM (#10154059)
http://www.vicarious.com
AI research
Re:Large Scale Deep Learning – Jeff Dean [pdf]
on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @01:44PM (#8724723)
These are great highlights, although your second point from [1] is a bit misleading. Humans have a 5% error rate because the average person can't differentiate between 150 different breeds of dogs and other similar nonsense.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)
on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:16PM (#8543551)
Vicarious - Silicon Valley, CA.
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Available roles:
- Machine Learning Researcher
- Computer Vision Researcher
- Software Engineer
- DevOps
- Systems Administrator.
Learn more: http://vicarious.com/
Re:Show HN: Knowledge engine – instant answers to any question
on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:57PM (#7985765)
When was the first Macintosh computer released?
1467 B.C.
Needs some work...
Re:SpaceX wins injunction to stop USAF buying Russian rocket engines
on Friday May 02, 2014 @12:43AM (#7684169)
This is a very long video. What was nice in it? Can you give some highlights?
Re:Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% ac...
on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @04:48PM (#7600446)
Digging in to the journal article, the technique they use can only scale to captchas with 8 characters or less, so having a longer word is a simple fix.
Software beats CAPTCHA, the web's 'are you human?' test
Re:Ask HN: Where are the hard programming challenges/jobs?
on Saturday March 02, 2013 @01:01PM (#5310318)
We work on hard stuff (http://vicarious.com/) and we're always looking for exceptional people
Re:Show HN: Slidescroll – view your slide decks together
on Friday February 08, 2013 @01:15PM (#5189256)
Ha, nice demo presentation.
One minor piece of feedback: add slide number out of total below the slide.
Re:Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs
on Sunday November 25, 2012 @08:13PM (#4829926)
We think so (http://vicarious.com/), but we are obviously biased.
Re:Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’
on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @06:00PM (#4415031)
IIRC, the reasons were:
- Depending on how you read it, Last Invention can sound really ominous.
- LI is a bit of a mouthful to say, whereas Vicarious is a single word
- People generally responded better to Vicarious as a name when we asked around
Never heard of The Last One...
Re:Vicarious Raises $15M to Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’
on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @02:47PM (#4414121)
We seriously considered Last Invention as an alternative name, and actually still own lastinvention.com. For a bunch of reasons, we decided on Vicarious instead. :)
Strong AI startup Vicarious.com raises $15M from Good Ventures and Founders Fund
Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy
on Thursday June 14, 2012 @11:04AM (#4111632)
Unfortunately, this attack does nothing to advance the state of the art in OCR (or audio recognition). It's basically the same story as every other CAPTCHA attack to date: take advantage of some accidental statistical regularity in the generation function. As soon as this kind of flaw is discovered, it only takes a few hours for the generation code to be patched in such a way that completely prevents this sort of attack from working.