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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…