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weaklearner

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    Comment #19941789

    long strolls are bliss

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    Comment #19790033

    well the answer is a bit more complicated than just replacing dermatologists with a CNN. I am pretty convinced the better approach is something like the approach in this paper-use …

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    Comment #19773773

    that's a good point about the rigid surface.

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    Comment #19749155

    eh some adversarial inputs are very robust to perturbations/orientation. see the famous turtle video.

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    Comment #19721134

    frankly I am quite skeptical of the macro-economic predictions of a 'blockchain mark consultant'

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    Comment #19702628

    of course not but the united states definitely tries to protect its nationals from what it views as inappropriate harassment and legal enforcement from foreign governments.

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    Comment #19702223

    well I definitely do want my tax money being spent on this.

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    Comment #19702215

    precisely.

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    Comment #19702201

    less id checks-probably easy to bribe past any border guards-easier to get informal cash based transport. If I was one of these people I'd find the cheapest bus I could find and ge…

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    Comment #19701126

    at least one is an american national. I'd support the united states sanctioning the ever living hell out of the Thai government if they executed an american national for building a…

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    Comment #19686496

    mmm I was pretty sure I read it. I cannot find the reference so I think you are right. I'm going to edit my comment.

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    Comment #19682333

    I also think instagram ads are actually pretty close to normal posts [embedded effectively] so to me they are more effective. another reason to avoid being used by zuck

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    Comment #19682325

    I don't have a citation here but I think facebook tried to create a slow vesting schedule for these aquihires so they would have golden shackles

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    Comment #19635643

    I think you can act in democratic ways. Like 1. donating 20 dollars to susan collin's opponent for instance 2. voting against your senator I think the bigger thing is that it is a …

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    Comment #19635558

    I'll be explicit. I shed no tears for Russian agents involved in interfering with american elections.

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    Comment #19635526

    Yeah it seems that's true/I was wrong. I was reading george conway's twitter and I saw this tweet thread by a washingtonpost journalist `If this is the only subject to which the ch…

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    Comment #19635436

    It is bullshit PACER isn't free or significantly cheaper

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    Comment #19635424

    well when obama was president assange was hiding in the embassy so I think attributing much significance to fact the obama administration did not issue this indictment is a bit ten…

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    Comment #19584181

    If your researched is focused on Gans/adversarial stuff the specificity of working with goodfellow might out-weigh some other concerns. Also-hey-I'm not trying to make this tradeof…

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    Comment #19578260

    Thanks this book also looks good!

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    Comment #19578243

    eh honestly a lot AI people might give up publishing for a little while to work with/around goodfellow.

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    Comment #19578181

    Ian Goodfellow already has come up with the next great DL architecture. So its possible he will do so again. edit: thinking about your question more-as an AI person I think the bus…

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    Comment #19575849

    or read a random walk down wallstreet

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    Comment #19575817

    Another data-point is that I literally just went to talk by a researcher from Toyota's self-driving car group and they 1) mentioned some OTA updates they made on their auto-pilot f…

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    Comment #19324329

    That's true. Good point. Also I really like this book. It's just not really what I think of when I think of theory.