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Meta has spent massive sums of money to train these models and they've released the models to the public. You can fine-tune the models. You can see the source code and the architec…

SAAB was financially failing when GM bought them. It's tough to blame GM for trying to impose financial discipline on a money-bleeding operation.

Then there's the question of how the electric grid will sustain this significant new increase in demand. As with mandates banning gas cars, the grid supply and stability is always …

Slack is great in small doses, but a complete time-waster beyond a certain threshold. I don't have ADHD, but I still have had problems with Slack. Don't feel bad about shutting all…

I have worked in both semiconductor manufacturing and drug discovery industries. Reliably and profitably producing 5 nm chips is an extreme engineering challenge, but- it is an eng…

If there's one thing I learned with biomedical data modeling and machine learning, it's that "it's complicated". For biomedical scenarios, getting more data is often not simple at …

One of the big differences between the US and Europe in this regard is the much larger proportion of bicyclists in Europe. In Europe, the larger number of bicyclists trains you as …

With this kind of uncertainty, is it any wonder that many people don't trust medical science when we are told to behave in a certain way, or when we are told to take a certain medi…

There is PhD level math involved. And yet, ML (deep learning in particular) is much more of an empirical endeavor than many would like to admit. A deep understanding of the underly…

Calling YOLOv5 a "fraud" is a bit harsh. It has many excellent aspects for practitioners: easy to use, fast inference time, scalable model architecture, and it has many helpful uti…

Welcome to computer vision / machine learning research!

What I'm hearing you say, loud and clear, is that you no longer have a sense of a purpose in life. Drugs (legal or otherwise) will not fill that void for you. I do not believe that…

I share your frustration. If you're trying to be realistic and straight-forward about the limitations of AI/ML, you're getting little interest from investors. Here's an anecdote. I…

Your suspicion is largely correct, in my experience. I've worked as a consultant on a number of different AI / ML projects for start-ups. Most aren't doing anything all that new or…

If there's one thing I've learned from the dotcom crash and the 2008 collapse, it's this: when the crap hits the fan, cash is king. Start-ups without profitable business models are…

As a computer vision practitioner, I would argue that SIFT is still very relevant today. In most real-world scenarios it seems to hold up as well or better than the deep learning a…

You're trying to act like everything is A-OK with this project, when it has in reality been a huge waste of public money. First, there has already been a large corruption scandal c…

The history of the Buffalo "gigafactory" is rather sordid... In a nutshell, Tesla and its subsidiaries made large employment and economic growth promises to the state of NY in exch…

This is what a speculative bubble looks like. Enjoy popcorn on the sidelines until people start pricing in financial reality. Manias sometimes take a while to fizzle out. Year over…

I have found PyCharm to offer a good trade-off between data exploration and productionizing your code. It has the best Python debugger that I've used. You can also run Jupyter note…

There's a reason why almost everyone pursuing autonomous driving uses lidar despite the high costs. It's because lidar has extremely good "recall" and "precision" in most driving c…

Did you ever read about the obsessive determination with which Harry Markopolos worked to expose Bernie Madoff? He had a visceral obsession with Madoff, working for almost a decade…

I have to totally disagree with this statement: > There are of course some people who are genuine frauds. How can you distinguish between x calling y a fraud because x is a hater, …

That's right, the Aztek had a built-in pop-up tent for tailgating. Good memory!

I've been waiting for years for something uglier than the Aztek. We have a new champion.