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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video] on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:08AM (#11272528)
Your pocket calculator is superhuman at arithmetic. Alphago is superhuman at go. It's not a big deal.
Re:Apple’s Secrecy Hurts Its AI Software Development on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:00AM (#10477824)
Yup, Google now has two teams publishing the very best ML papers alongside FAIR, Toronto, Montreal and some other places. The teams or Deep Mind and Google Brain.
your idea is called adversarial networks, and it works quite well (http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661) although it's not useful every time.
Re:Ask HN: Are top developers just guessing? on Sunday June 07, 2015 @02:48PM (#9675877)
academia is extremely prototype oriented so it might even be worse than industry in this regard, fyi.
Re:A Brief Overview of Deep Learning on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:31AM (#9027681)
Well, I'm talking specifically about the biology analogies, and no, being good at ML doesn't mean you know anything about the brain.
Re:A Brief Overview of Deep Learning on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @09:54AM (#9027415)
Biological analogies are too often misleading and confusing when talking about deep learning[1]. We currently have very little knowledge of the way the brain works and most analogies are only wild assumptions. The ones contained in this article are blunt and based on strictly nothing but the author's feelings. Please read with care.

[1]: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/ma...

Re:Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @07:30AM (#8492231)
If I'm not mistaken, prezi is hungarian and very widely used
Re:Teenage Haskell on Saturday June 28, 2014 @03:55AM (#7957727)
It's a type declaration saying that the & operator takes two Picture as arguments and returns a picture.

So, if "a" and "b" are pictures "a & b" is typechecking.

To be more precise, if you account for currying, it says that the & operator takes a Picture and returns a Picture -> Picture function. This function can then be applied to a Picture to yield a Picture. It's as I explained above but with an intermediate step.

You mean like the people who wrote HN, the site you are reading, right?
Re:I didn't leave France, I moved to the US on Sunday March 30, 2014 @12:04AM (#7495178)
SUPINFO / EPITECH / EPITA are bac + 5, you make no sense
Re:I didn't leave France, I moved to the US on Saturday March 29, 2014 @09:34PM (#7494739)
Well, I come from a CS master's of the university of Nantes and I don't feel _at all_ like I have a lower level than if I went to one of those schools. It's clearly the other way around.
Please don't use caps meaninglessly. This blog is awfully hard to read.
Re:A decentralized anonymous marketplace on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:40AM (#7464621)
I'm not sure with OP doesn't address SilkRoad use cases on top of the ones he mentions, that are clearly a minority if we consider what is likely to happen.
Re:Why I like Java on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @03:34AM (#7464412)
I used to feel Java was a pain to write when working with Java 6. Many 250 characters lines and everything.

Java 7 kinda divided the line length by a factor 2 with the diamond operator, the try-resource and so on.

I've programmed some Java 8 since yesterday and it actually feels like a pretty decent language to express ideas. Nothing like Java 6.

I know most of the Java haters have been struggling using it day to day in settings were it was awful (over engineering + Java 6, hello, here is the gun).

But I feel like those haters should really try to think fresh on this one. Try Java 8 and its new features and decide for yourself _afterwards_.

Re:A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour on Saturday February 15, 2014 @10:08PM (#7246493)
Just wanted to say that being asked not once, but twice in a very intrusive manner if I want to suscribe to the blog is a pain in the ass for me. Please adjust that.
Re:Show HN: ssh and cd get married on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:29AM (#7223903)
plus if you're going for bash instead of python to avoid dependencies, just go for sh. It's not like it would be hard to code or anything in sh.
Re:A 1,600-Year-Old Viking War Game on Sunday January 12, 2014 @02:45PM (#7047160)
I tried it for a few games with friends and I'm not sure at all that with the standard rules defenders can win. With many rule sets you can lock the board pretty easily and make it a draw or lose situation for defenders. I'm not aware of any demonstration of attackers winning every time or not but it's my strong suspicion.
The h2 prominence is certainly a consequence of it being the default choice in Play! applications