oergiR

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by oergiR 7d ago
One of the complaints from the mathematician is that OpenAI cannot tell whether his data has been used as training data. Not many people realise this is a direct consequence of the GDPR. The GDPR protects PII, personally identifiable infor
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by oergiR 11mo ago
There is more to this quote than you might think. Grammatically, in English the verb "swim" requires an "animate subject", i.e. a living being, like a human or an animal. So the question of whether a submarine can swim i
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by oergiR 1y ago
FreeType was written when fonts were local, trusted, resources, and it was written in low-level C to be fast. The TrueType/OpenType format is also made for fast access, e.g. with internal pointers, making validation a pain. So though F
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by oergiR 2y ago
That makes it sound like it’s a choice, which it isn’t really. The way to look at it is from a probabilistic perspective: with the fix, you maximise the probability of the data. Without the fix, you fairly arbitrarily raise some probabiliti
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by oergiR 3y ago
Isn’t the main problem the cost of heating? In the UK at least a kWh of electricity cost 4 times what a kWh of gas costs. Even if a heat pump is twice as efficient as gas heating, the cost of heating is still twice as high.
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by oergiR 3y ago
I agree except for (6). A language model assigns probabilities to sequences. The model needs normalised distributions, eg using a softmax, so that’s the right way of thinking about it.
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by oergiR 4y ago
In English everywhere except the US, it’s “horse riding”; “horseback riding” is US English. Definitely humorous: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5wSw3IWRJa0
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by oergiR 6y ago
Training a speaker-specific recogniser that improves over a generic recogniser requires a lot more data nowadays. First, generic systems are a lot better and trained on a lot more data nowadays. Second, speaker adaptation worked better for
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by oergiR 9y ago
The actual paper is available here: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2017/abstract...
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by oergiR 10y ago
This is how healthcare is set up in Switzerland and the Netherlands. It is just an implementation issue how payments (through tax or otherwise) are routed. In a system that involves market forces, the key thing is that if everybody is insur
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by oergiR 10y ago
The "model" in the title is the model of the world, as a probabilistic model. The good thing about such a model is that it explicitly states your beliefs about the world. Once you've defined it, in theory reasoning about it i
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by oergiR 11y ago
To train a speech recogniser on subtitles, you need to be careful to allow for words missing from the transcriptions. But it has been done: goo.gl/Syx27j
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by oergiR 11y ago
I know that Andrew Ng and colleagues say that they don't use HMMs. I haven't spoken with them (I haven't seen them at speech conferences) so I do not know whether they actually believe this themselves. I believe the best comp
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by oergiR 11y ago
Probabilistic models. Recent research often focuses on Bayesian models. Probabilistic models have never really gone away. This presentation by LeCun actually suggests embedding neural networks inside of various types of probabilistic models