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Quetelet
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Ask HN: How to get started as contractor/consultant in niche area?
Next year I’m finishing my PhD in a pretty niche (though crucial) subfield of an area that’s grown tremendously in the last few years (perception for autonomous vehicles) and my co…
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Comment #20271874
Representation learning and probabilistic methods are huge sub-areas of modern machine learning, just take a look at the proceedings of ICLR2019.
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Comment #20271860
These adversarial examples are generated in a very artificial way that will not be present in natural images (and if you’re thinking of security issues, the attacker needs access t…
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Comment #20271843
You might be confusing the historical use of the sigmoid activation function with probabilistic modeling, neural networks in the 80s were used similarly to how they are today, albe…
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Comment #20271548
Actually most modern neural networks are not probabilistic, they are deterministic function approximators. Also your point 3) isn’t quite correct either, often a “standard” archite…
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Ask HN: How to get started in Computer Vision?
I've seen a lot of interesting applications of CV in virtual reality (e.g. Oculus Rift) but is it necessary to have a graduate degree in CV to work in the field? What are some intr…