awal2

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by awal2 5y ago
Ok, so there's a lot of tension here: 1. A lot of people want these systems to be open, and don't want the power that comes along with them to be locked up in the hands of a few rich people. 2. But some people also think these sys
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by awal2 5y ago
You can do sprite matching using new fangled ML tools and save the same amount of developer time.
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by awal2 5y ago
When all you have is a hammer
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by awal2 5y ago
The reputation of a university takes decades to shape and is tied to the reputations of individual professors. For the other schools to "learn to replicate" Berkeley's success, all of their professors would have to become th
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by awal2 5y ago
Monocular depth estimation has gotten really good recently though[0]. Not saying this one paper/method is 100% sufficient, but we're closing the gap in this one capability (depth estimation from pure vision) quite rapidly. [0] h
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by awal2 5y ago
I've worked with these (Azure Kinect), and they are quite nice, but they are much bigger and heavier and require a lot more power.
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by awal2 5y ago
This is a popular take, but (with respect) I don't think a more aggressive DA is the answer for the following reasons: A. The problem is too big to just arrest and charge everybody. There aren't enough police to track all the pet
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by awal2 5y ago
I also don't think I witnessed much crime until I moved to Seattle. In the six years I've been here though I've witnessed: 1. Somebody broke into my Aunt's place while nobody was home and took some jewelry and a cell ph
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by awal2 5y ago
El Camion taco truck on Sand Point way is pretty good
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by awal2 6y ago
Right. I think the question though is why isn't somebody fixing this situation? There's money sitting on the table for them when they figure it out and get their act together.
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by awal2 6y ago
The fundamental truth of ML at the moment seems to be that gathering data takes at least as much effort and infrastructure (and often much more) than actually training the models.
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by awal2 6y ago
Calvinball? https://xkcd.com/1002/ That comic is from 2012, and since then Arimaa, Go and Poker have moved solidly into the "Computers Can Beat Top Humans" category. Jeopardy would probably be there too if t
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by awal2 6y ago
You know an organization is corrupt AF when someone can use it to make the US military look like a bastion of accountability.
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by awal2 6y ago
It's unfortunate that Alireza isn't mentioned by name in the headline and top photo accompanying the article is of Magnus alone holding a trophy.
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by awal2 7y ago
I can buy this argument for a new leader of a small company, but at the time these things took place, Ed was a senior leader at a very high level for ~ten years. Also, at the time that the lawsuit covers, it was definitely not 400, but pro
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by awal2 7y ago
+University of Washington
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by awal2 7y ago
When somebody installs Linux on their computer without knowing what they are doing they might make break their computer. When somebody tries to install after-market self-driving equipment in their car without knowing what they are doing th
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by awal2 7y ago
Despite the luck/noise in Poker, there are reasonable measures of performance, and while I'm not an expert in this area, the bot seems to be doing very well (see paper for details). Poker is not a "crap game for AI" it&