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A VR system that lets you walk around your house will have to detect the tables/chairs/walls in your living space and place some kind of digital content in their place so you don’t…

Using PyTorch (and the broader space of machine learning algorithms under the “deep learning” category) really makes me feel like a wizard. But the downside to being Python-depende…

SVMs have convex objective functions, but when people use SVMs, they are using some kind of features + SVMs on top. The success of the approach is both good features, and waiting l…

The hinge-loss and the primal form of the SVM objective is really easy to understand. Every ML 101 class would jump into the dual formulation, talk about kernels, RKHS, and all the…

Back in around 2008, SVMs were all the rage in computer vision. We would use hand designed visual features and then a linear SVM on top. That was how object detectors were built (r…

Here is a zooming example. I definitely noticed that it makes people's eyes look evil. Maybe it's hallucinating animal eyes on top of human eyes... http://imgur.com/kThM9vf

ConvNets have gotten popular because of their strong empirical results. All the recent work on visualizing CNNs suggests that the community working on Deep Learning still has a lot…

Is there an official list somewhere which assigns animals to kinds people you will find in a startup? Like "shark" for VC, "owl" for the PhD, grizzly bear for the bearded Linux hac…

I use a pen when I read. I underline important bits and actually write down the key points in the margin. Writing these things down helps memory and I don't really care about leavi…

Thanks!

Yes to @eof's response. He does know me well, and should be able to clarify in my absence. There is going to be an AI engine that we use in the future in a similar way that we use …

You're correct. I really should have used a word like "invaluable". I love my Duda&Hart. I'm not sure why "infamous" felt appropriate. Thanks for the catch.

Thanks, will check out quora links. Follow up question: is it advisable to get application feedback from other YC companies? In my head this only makes sense if the product made by…

It would be great to see examples of successful applications, and why they stood out. Seeing how the initial presentation of the idea is different than the company today would help…

~2 hours left and 92% of 250K on Kickstarter. If funded, it looks like these guys will be able to leave their jobs and work full-time on some cool 3D tech! https://www.kickstarter.…

I remember taking Moore's grad level Machine Learning course in 2005 (was co-taught with Tom Mitchell). I have great memories from that course, especially interactions with my fell…

While vision might not be the best avenue for studying general purpose intelligence, it is worthwhile to think of vision as more related to hard AI and less of a problem of applied…

I agree that NLP is no less AI than vision. What I wanted to point out in my post (I am the author) is that too many smart computer vision researchers don't view vision as AI at al…