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by goberoi 3y ago
As an aside: owls being wise is a cultural belief. In India, owls are considered unintelligent, and calling someone an owl is akin to calling them a fool. Interesting how these perceptions are diametrically opposite!
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The Metaverse Is Already Here for Cows and It’s Sad(kotaku.com)
8 points by goberoi 5y ago|1 comments
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by goberoi 5y ago
Thanks. Alas I don’t have bandwidth to take it on, but encourage you to do so wholeheartedly. Bonne chance!
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by goberoi 5y ago
Love that! I too was inspired to use this dataset in some way, and made this toy program where you point your camera at your face, and it renders your eyes and nose as doodles (and barfs out more if you open your mouth): https://
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ML Tooling at an AI-First Startup(rsqrdai.org)
2 points by goberoi 6y ago|0 comments
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by goberoi 6y ago
Monkey Island and its sequel are some of the defining games of my childhood. My brother and I played all the Sierra Games, and Lucas Arts games, and while we have many loves (Heroes Quest/Quest for Glory, Indian Jones), Monkey Island w
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by goberoi 7y ago
For those interested in how EXIF is treated in other apps, a dated but informative article from 2012: https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orienta...
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by goberoi 7y ago
Totally random question: how did you pick the name?
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Wilson Sonsini Expects ‘Millions’ from New App at $7,500 a Doc(biglawbusiness.com)
3 points by goberoi 7y ago|0 comments
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by goberoi 8y ago
Yes, this sort of tech is likely to make its way into CGI. Some relevant resources if you're interested: 1. This post shows how GANs were used to replicate the Princess Leia scene in Rogue One. The scene in the movie required a team of
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Exploring Deepfakes(goberoi.com)
21 points by goberoi 9y ago|0 comments
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by goberoi 9y ago
tl;dr: Instagram is significantly tightening up access to their platform. The existing API is being deprecated in favor of a heavier permissions based system, and functionality available to all today, will be restricted to medium-to-large b
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Instagram API changes 2018: get ready for new Instagram Graph API(elfsight.com)
3 points by goberoi 9y ago|2 comments
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Allen Institute for AI sets up CTO residency program(geekwire.com)
9 points by goberoi 9y ago|0 comments
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by goberoi 9y ago
Why is this interesting? In short: a great new activation function that may challenge the dominance of ReLU. Longer story: Today, ReLU is the most popular activation function for deep networks (along with its variants like leaky ReLU or par
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Swish: A Self-Gated Activation Function(arxiv.org)
2 points by goberoi 9y ago|1 comments
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On Writing Product Roadmaps(goberoi.com)
2 points by goberoi 9y ago|0 comments
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by goberoi 9y ago
They are going to expose some of this functionality as part of their AR libraries. We know this from their Snapchat demo, as well as the gaming demo (though that used the rear camera, not front one). So... yes, developers will be able to ge
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by goberoi 9y ago
Can the new camera technology be used to map spaces as big as rooms? If so, this could be game changing for allowing the creation of VR spaces quickly and inexpensively. E.g., play a VR game in your real house after mapping it with your iPh
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by goberoi 9y ago
Did I miss it, or are there no virtual reality startups on this list? I'm a wee bit surprised: VR is nascent and there aren't enough devices out there to build sustainable businesses shipping content, but I would have expected at
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by goberoi 9y ago
Yeah, Clarifai did well. I am keen to learn how well their custom model feature works. Per their FAQ[0], you only need supply 20-50 images per concept. That seems remarkable to me, given that a concept like 'cow' has ~1500 images
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by goberoi 9y ago
These aren't really great for learning about computer vision or deep learning, but are great for building projects that require image classification. E.g., recall the awesome project for lego sorting by jacquesm[0] ? He built his own m
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by goberoi 9y ago
I tried out the top 5 computer vision API vendors last year. See my findings, along with examples of output from all of them here: https://goberoi.com/comparing-the-top-five-computer-vision-a... At the time, Clarifai was th
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by goberoi 10y ago
I haven't built a production app, but did compare the computer vision offering in Microsoft's Cognitive Services with those offered by Google, IBM, Clarifai, and a couple of others. Write up, example, and link to Github source her
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by goberoi 10y ago
I highly recommend subscribing to the "Data is Plural" mailing list. You'll get interesting datasets mailed to you each week! Here's the last one: http://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural/letters/da
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On Writing Product Specs(medium.com)
10 points by goberoi 10y ago|0 comments
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by goberoi 10y ago
Direct link to the detail page on Amazon (taken from the article): https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B018HVTR2U
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by goberoi 10y ago
That's interesting indeed, thanks for sharing. If you're interested in the genre, "Hunt the Yeti" is a new adventure game that was released a few days ago and seems to be well received based on the reviews (I have not ye
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by goberoi 10y ago
There are lots of apps that connect to established third parties that Amazon is likely not to build, e.g., home automation with SmartThings, music with Pandora. And also several silly but fun things that they may not wish to maintain, e.g.,
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The Echo is ready for a killer app – 5 ways Amazon can help developers build it(goberoi.com)
20 points by goberoi 10y ago|6 comments

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