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If you are looking for a computational graph toolkit that is based on clean C++ go for Dynet. It is very complete. Similar to pytorch (which borrowed some ideas from Dynet) and bac…

IMO the economical argument is the most robust. I see it like this: There is a big margin between 1) the amount of information that you are legally obligated to provide to public a…

I have not followed the news but was this really "considered the country's own answer to the iPhone"?. By whom exactly? One thing is to say "A Spanish company's iPhone killer is a …

>And I'm not sure that's a bad thing. You surely can find other cases in which you end up paying more than the average. In the end, what matters is information asymmetry in any neg…

Context: I lived in Lisbon four years and know one of the founders of Unbabel. I do not know you, neither your story. Regarding your comments: > That's one thing I really hated abo…

nice!, does it have OCR?

Cool, you should try to sell this to community managers working on twitter.

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It would be interesting to see if this is really so. The post just cites circumstantial evidence and does not reason why this would happen. I personally hope the days of amateur, l…

At the risk of being a bit annoying... regarding speech recognition, as said here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376319 they use DNNs not DBNs (DBNs only used for pre-traini…

I did not find that on the paper, are you referring to randomly switching off neurons?. I would be surprised if this would not be a technique of the original neural networks wave.

>DNNs can be thought of a stacked Restricted Boltzmann Machines Agree, as explained in Hinton et al 2006. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/ncfast.pdf But this is just for pr…

Again, the use of senones instead of monophones or diphones is just changing the output targets is not a novelty per sé.

rather than being so aggressive and waiting for downvotes you could choose to be constructive ;) and answer a concise technical question to a sub-thread that you yourself started h…

I read it in diagonal but the paper seems to use the same DNN architecture as before. They seem to tweak the pretraining with layer-wise back-propagation (instead of full MLP-as-DB…

Again, please, have a look at Seide et al 2011 before commenting. Besides that I am not complaining, just saying, wait a little more before you claim the breakthrough of the decade…

> it might be great to have a human readable and tweakable solution (assuming you have the resources) but for something like recognising handwritten digits from images, not so much…

If it was not clear enough, "fancy stuff" and "not making a big difference" refers to Seide et al 2011 mentioned in the same paragraph. Table 2 is particularly revealing to this re…

Well, it is definitely something but it being the "Breakthrough of the Decade" seems pretty unlikely to me (given my available evidence). I do not know well other examples beyond c…

Well... Suzuki did change the name of their "Suzuki Wanker" (Suzuki Pajero) in Spain. It depends...