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A digital picture frame. The one I have gets a custom email address that family can use to send me pictures, or they can use an app to add pics. It's been great having pics of sibl…

Thanks for the article! What tool do you use to create the figures? I like the sketch style. For anyone else, what tools do you recommend for generating pretty for system architect…

He's saying there are 1000 possible PINs (000-999) if you don't have the unique digit constraint.

I bet we could. The length of each utterance, the number of exchanges between agents, and the entropy of the symbols used in the utterances could give you some measure of efficienc…

It'd be interesting if the agents developed their own language during the reinforcement learning stage that is unintelligible to humans but allows them to quickly navigate the nego…

The data should have been split into train, validation, and test sets before augmentation was applied. As it is now, there are likely examples in the validation and test sets that …

Given the marketing toward HPC tasks, shouldn't hyper-threading be disabled?

"And then (this is hard for coders) trusting the systems to do the work." Like you say, it can be easy to think that something works when it really doesn't. I hope that the above q…

I was in my first data structures class when this paper was published. We had just covered red black trees, so this made for an interesting deviation from the standard curriculum. …

Sort of. There are out-of-core learning algorithms (e.g. SGD) that work on data that doesn't entirely fit in main memory. Please see: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/a…

I don't work at Google, but I think they do that to gather click through data for links and positions on the results page. Simply linking to the destination would prevent them from…