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As a long-time LaTeX user, I'm a little disappointed to read these results, but I fully believe them. I've spent countless hours fighting against the layout algorithm to get images…

Front page of NYT? Must be a slow news day... Interesting collection of stories, though.

It's worth noting that embryo selection might be coming really soon http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/super_intelligent-humans-ar... and that will have a much bigger influence on th…

I think your criticisms are mostly misplaced. - Re: "buzzwords...references": I don't see any buzzwords, in fact the word "deep" doesn't even appear in the text. Regarding referenc…

Another robot researcher agrees. Classifying images is totally different from enabling a robot to perform a difficult task. Object recognition is a supervised learning problem, map…

"typical incarnations of which consist of over 100 layers with a maximum depth of over 20 parameter layers)" Anyone know exactly what that means? I'm guessing that that there are 1…

About a year ago, I got to play with a UBR-1 prototype. It seemed to be very well-designed. It was smaller and lighter and the PR2 and had some design improvements. For example, th…