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I don’t really understand how this is any different from Overfeat or SSD...

Yeah, they don't show up with a zero, it just says not enough data to show so hard to draw any conclusions. I agree this is an imperfect proxy and it's not definitive but I'd still…

I'll take you up on that bet. http://imgur.com/a/SqCKL

> accusations against huge swaths of people that are totally unsupported. The search data is meant to support the accusations. A main point is that other methods of supporting such…

Going back to the magpie though, they don't have a cerebral cortex at all, yet exhibit remarkably intelligent behavior (tool usage, self-recognition). So, what's up with all the sm…

They found two really old skeletons in Europe that are older than other skeletons. They are skeletons of a "modern"-ish human. They know because the teeth of the skeletons have a s…

I don't think so, Haiqing Zhou is not on that paper. Zhifeng Ren has a number of papers in this space.

I think this is the paper: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/ta/c6ta02876d Highly active and durable self-standing WS2/graphene hybrid catalysts for the hydrogen evolu…

NIPS is more math/theory heavy as a conference while ICCV/CVPR/other vision conferences will tolerate less math and more pictures. You have probably been reading mostly vision pape…

Mini-batches are not an ugly hack, batch gradient descent is too slow since you have to go through the whole data and stochastic gradient descent is too high variance (plus you can…

If Intel is smart they will invest heavily into library development. Researchers use whatever is fast and right now cuda is fast, not just because nvidia has the best GPUs (it's ab…

Yes. You would have to have a large training set with these labels but it would be pretty straightforward to train. You would probably want a tagging model not a classifier because…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis > Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with …

Doctors rejected hand washing for a long time because there was no theory behind why it would improve patient care, even when there was overwhelming evidence showing it decreased m…

seL4 is 9000 lines of C and took 11 person-years to verify. How big is OpenSSL? Also, verification isn't a magic bullet, you need a good spec.

I love that people do this. Do you really thing someone is going to write a web scraper and NOT include obvious things like converting AT -> @ and DOT com -> .com? Also, who even w…

Bittorrent Sync is an amazing product, I'd recommend switching even if you don't have political issues with dropbox. I use it to keep work files in sync between 3 different compute…

That's interesting, I don't generally think to myself, "Hm, I could go drive around for an hour or I could go for an hour long walk", I usually think "Hm, I could drive to this pla…

Well walking is way more dangerous per mile than driving, this was touched on by Steve Levitt in Super Freakonomics, it looks like in Britain the mortality rate is about 10 times h…

Real world currencies are valued solely on the desire to have them; GDP and credit worthiness only play a role because they affect people's perception of how stable or valuable a c…