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Re:Twitter to label deepfakes and other deceptive media
on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:24AM (#22246866)
He is paraphrasing parts of 1984 by George Orwell.
Your comment must be sarcastic as well. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that the government should hold a monopoly on truth...
Re:Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning
on Saturday February 01, 2020 @03:48PM (#22213131)
I hadn’t heard of this before. Cool. Going to share this with my team on Monday.
Re:Alphabet CEO says there is ‘no question’ that AI needs to be regulated
on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:51AM (#22098758)
> For example, the CEO notes that the company’s internal principles ban certain uses of the technology, “such as to support mass surveillance or violate human rights.” It’s because of concerns like this that Google doesn’t sell facial recognition technology.
Extremely rich from a corporation that sponsors CAPE Productions and Cogniac. Google doesn't sell this technology directly, but lets its Gradient Ventures VC firm do it instead.
Re:Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?
on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:14AM (#21825000)
Peter Thiel has a good book on this [1].
[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one
Re:Ask HN: What have been the biggest technical achievements of the 20...
on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:25AM (#21804184)
The advent of GANs by Ian Goodfellow and the experimentation done regarding adversarial attacks was extremely important for the ML research space.
Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it...
on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:19PM (#21709390)
An easy way to get started that doesn't use pure ML is Markovify [1]. I used it for a couple of projects last year.
Re:Tesla's Cybertruck Approach on Auto Manufacturing and Engineering
on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:57PM (#21608738)
This is a great way to describe it. I love any Fountainhead reference.
Re:A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:57AM (#21214541)
Re:Google ML/AI Comic
on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:35AM (#20994864)
https://nightfall.glitch.me/ :)
It was inspired by Archillect and A Softer World [1].
Re:Google ML/AI Comic
on Monday September 16, 2019 @01:30PM (#20986490)
I trained a model on Isaac Asimov stories to produce 3-panel webcomics that get served onto a Twitter feed a couple of times a day. If you'd like, I can share it and you can check it out!
Re:An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @08:35PM (#20935421)
Great job on the article! Really succinct and a good introduction to the topic. Would've really helped me in undergrad when I first was learning about the Fast Fourier Transform.
Re:GPT-2 is not as dangerous as OpenAI thought it might be
on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @08:59AM (#20927618)
The GP comment was generated from GPT-2.
Re:Facebook Dating
on Thursday September 05, 2019 @05:44PM (#20890917)
Not GP, but I stumbled across this website in college[1] that had a lot of interesting articles on anarchy and “the worker’s collective.”
I don’t agree with the viewpoints but I learned a lot from it! Really cool material.
[1] - https://crimethinc.com/
Re:Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 p...
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:20PM (#20832698)
I CTRL+F'd for Walmart in each article but didn't find anything. I thought that was the topic of discussion?
Re:Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 p...
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:17PM (#20832175)
What evidence do you have that the CEO doesn't bring that much in value to Walmart?
Re:Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to assess data sci...
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:16PM (#20832163)
This was pretty cool. For fun, I tried to get the best possible score I could, using XGBoost, without any feature engineering and achieved a MAE of 0.042422154541399665.
Re:Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 p...
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:38PM (#20831796)
The problem that arises is that if you artificially inflate someone's wages to an arbitrary number like 21/hr, they might not provide enough value to economically justify the wage level they're set at.
It's not, and shouldn't be, an emotional argument. It's an economical one.
Re:Uber And Lyft take more from drivers than they say: survey
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:36AM (#20820839)
You're also paying for access to sell your app to the tens of millions of people that use iOS or MacOS.
Re:Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 2
on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:52AM (#20757772)
I thought the same as well.
Re:Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone
on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:46PM (#20650668)
This is awesome. Thanks for the resource.
Re:Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance The...
on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @02:19PM (#20576839)
Peter Thiel was entirely justified for every one of the actions he took and funded against a magazine that outed him as gay, while he was in Saudi Arabia.
Re:Show HN: OmniNet:- A unified architecture for multi-modal multi-tas...
on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:15PM (#20481621)
I found my weekend paper. This sounds cool!
Re:Ask HN: What advice would you give to a computer science undergradu...
on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:01PM (#20474355)
Take as many math and/or statistics classes now up to as high a level as you can while still learning effectively.
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discuss...
on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @06:37PM (#20454537)
If you think it's a personal problem, I'd recommend going to the gym and starting a progressive weight-lifting program if you don't already. You'll build in confidence as you progress and get stronger, and that will spill into other areas of your life. It worked for me.
Re:Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github
on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:38AM (#19859861)
I've gotten this as well after uploading notebooks to github. It usually goes away for me after ~10mins after I've uploaded the .ipynb. I'll check this out though, thanks!