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Stanford CRFM | Bay Area | Full-Time | On-Site, Hybrid Foundation models like ChatGPT, PaLM, and Stable Diffusion are transforming the world around us. The Stanford Center for Rese…

I highly recommend the book 1491, which goes pretty deeply into what we can infer about the pre-Columbian Americas.

Thanks for the questions. I am very unlikely to take on visualization. I don't acutely need it for what I do, and I am some-but-not-nearly-enough interested in visualization for it…

Thanks for the kind words. Breeze does a large chunk of (dense) compute via netlib-java, which calls out to "real" lapack if you set it up. Are things really faster than that? Or a…

Main author here. Breeze has breeze-viz, which is very basic but at the time there wasn't anything else. I highly endorse using something else. I personally like http://sameersingh…

So, this is (largely) my project. Not sure why this is on the front page of HN, but I'm happy to answer any questions. I'm not really giving these libraries the love they need thes…

Sure, but the FP side of Scala is definitely firmly in the advanced static type system camp.

Semantic Machines | Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers | Boston, MA and SF Bay Area, CA (Berkeley) | http://www.semanticmachines.com/careers/ Semantic Machines is de…

Not a neuroscientist, but I do do NLP, and I only lightly skimmed the paper. This doesn't really speak to UG. First, you can believe in the structures they purport to show without …

Prosopagnosia[1] is a real condition that affects ≈2.5% of people. You might check out "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" if you're interested. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

to add another: System.out.println(0.0 == -0.0); // true System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.equals(new double[] {0.0}, new double[] {-0.0})); // false (It's documented in the cont…

statically checked, but still runtime-determined, matrix sizes can be done in Scala. Doing specialized implementations would require bytecode magic, though. case class Dim(size: In…

(I'm one of the authors of Overmind.) First, it's important to know that AI is a very broad term. Roughly, there's "modern" AI (machine learning and statistical modeling) and "clas…

Machine translation is no where near solved. Machine translation is still one of the most funded areas in NLP, and the quality is still incredibly bad for many language pairs. DARP…

This article is basically nonsense. The "Deep" here doesn't mean "deep learning"/neural networks. They just mean non-superficial understanding of text (beyond keywords, named entit…

> Yes it does. AFAICT it's working well. There are 5 releases in the 2.10.x line and I haven't had a compatibility issue between any of them. This isn't quite true. I have a librar…

Make the prior art fee scale up by number of patent applications submitted by that entity, then. First one's free. Then $100, then start growing at some small-ish exponent.

Actually, NNs (specifically auto-encoders) are more like a nonlinear PCA. PCA can be seen as an "information bottleneck" where you try to represent an N dimensional space as a K Au…

They're not disposable. They reuse them. You get a rather sizable discount (50%) for giving an empty one back when you get a new one.

So, this is a good post and everyone should be aware of these. But kernels ("non-linear" svms) are not a panacea. If you use kernels, then your model will need to remember some non…

Factorie's a nice piece of work, I highly recommend it. The team at UMass has done a great job.

Huh, I was wondering why I had a bunch of stars on github in the last few hours. (Sad there's no analytics for Github projects.) I'm the lead author of ScalaNLP, and I'm happy to a…

Aren't the ram chips usually soldered to the mobo on ultrabooks? Crucial indicates they can't upgrade ram on the XPS13. And a little googling says soldered RAM... Nothing on the De…

I suspect this might have at least a little to do with the Google+ rebranding. Remember how they removed the + operator from search?