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Lissajous pendulum graphing swing [video](youtube.com)
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
In their second publication they actually use the probabilistic unit, but computing those requires running an EM algorithm for each layer of capsules: https://openreview.net/forum?id=HJWLfGWRb
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I doubt this will be a real problem because I've seen brilliant people excel in provincial universities with very little means and talent around. Internet education has gotten pretty good and probably reflects most of the experience of
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I still find it incredibly hard to tell whether this is overblown hype or legit scientific progress. There is no indication whatsoever that this approach scales to deep feature hierarchies and that is likely what you need to compete on hard
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
My guess would be that symmetry is a simple heuristic measure of physical fitness. Visual attraction is basically a strong regularizer that restricts the search space to phenotypes with particular traits. Asymmetry means that the joints wea
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
The problem is that anxiety is warranted in this case. You can’t do anything about solving the problem for everybody, but you can potentially save your own life: - Work like a madman to get into the 1%. - Move to a region that is self-susta
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
> evolution of evolvability and then a seemingly unrelated subject: the evolution of robustness. Isn't evolvability only about robustness? What other criteria would improve evolution? Mutations just happen, so the question is how
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I think, the main effect of sexual reproduction is that, much like GANs and competitive self-play, it creates species-internal competition: Both sexes need to impress, which makes cheating an obvious strategy (makeup, steroids, Shakespear
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
That seems like a strange/unnecessary way to put it because DO is noise.
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
You can also call it just subgraph; not all of them, but exponentially many.
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
Wait, that can’t be wrong because that is literally what DO does. It is a convex hull regularizer around the network activations using noise. That is also why dropout does not solve susceptibility to adversarial examples: It merely extends
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
Actually, GANs reach state of the art in anomaly/outlier detection and drug/molecule prediction, so there is certainly more to it than just artistic applications: https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1EfylZ0Z https:&
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
Totalitarian systems are quicker to come up with the rules (in this case for self-preservation). And when time matters, then it has obvious advantages.
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
How is Assange Putin’s mouthpiece?
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
Small correction: Learning algorithms that determine the contribution of a unit to the result over time can also be local in time, namely by tracking the contributions online (for example by eligibility traces or RTRL).
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
> By firing earlier it inhibits neighboring cells, creating highly sparse patterns of activity for correctly predicted inputs. This part is so vague. It seems to lack an explanation of how interneurons inhibit other neurons nearby. Als
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
The same actually happened in Spain 400 years ago. There used to be a lot of forests in Spain: http://m.dw.com/en/spain-replants-after-centuries-of-defores...
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I guess deep world models are still severely riddled by all sorts of problems: vanishing gradients, BPTT being O(T), poor generalization ability of NNs (which likely is due to the lack of attractor state associative recall, as well as conce
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
It also presumes that one can simulate the world at low cost. In AlphaGo Zero it takes 0.4 s for 1.600 node extensions, but in this case the cost of the world is negligible. Anyway, assuming you need that many node extensions to get decent
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
> It's an uninteresting reduction since linear algebra can describe almost everything. The question is whether it can do so efficiently. As far as I know, alternating applications of affine transforms and non-linearities are not so
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
Eww.
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I am wondering what their baseline is. They call it "Current Best Non-WaveNet". Quite frankly, Apple's most recent deep learning-based speech synthesis sounds superior, but there aren't enough samples to for a proper com
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
Exactly, often changes happen so quickly that you cannot really tell what happened. You need to try it a few times to get used to the concept.
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
What are your thoughts on this paper?
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
> Despite the name 'neuronal networks' that we have history to thank for, it's better think of them as just long compositions of functions with a lot of parameters one can tweak. Actually, the name is not so misleading b
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I'm wondering what role brain-drain plays in this catastrophe. Who wants to live at the border of chaos? Smart and open-minded people emigrate to Central/Northern Europe, US/Canada or Australia to live a much safer and fulfil
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
I've added a modification that removes any margin at the top: #TabsToolbar, #sidebar-header { visibility: collapse !important; } #TabsToolbar { margin-bottom: -21px !important; } Then go to the ham
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
A better modification is this: #TabsToolbar > * { visibility: collapse; } #TabsToolbar { margin-bottom: -21px !important; } You can also re-enable the title bar under hamburger menu > Customize &g
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by mannigfaltig 9y ago
It works now on Firefox Developer Edition 57.0b3 (64-bit), macOS High Sierra. It took me a while to figure out that one needs to activate it by clicking one of the icons at the top. Edit: This was a really bad idea because upgrading to 57 d

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