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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by sarthakjain » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

petra wrote: post #101

sarthakjain wrote: post #15

Deep learning architectures built by machines (so we no longer have to design architecture to solve problems) https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578 Transfer Learning (so we need less data to build models) http://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/torrey... Generative adversarial networks (so computers can get human like abilities at generating content) https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-n…

>> Generative adversarial networks (so computers can get human like abilities at generating content) Does this only apply to artistic content, or also to engineering content ? Say PCB layouts, architectural plans, mechanical designs, etc ?

The approach was applied without any real knowledge of art, even though it has been applied to the domains you mentioned I don't see why not.

[edit]: it is a lot harder to build a NN when there are very constraint rules. But it is also a lot easier to verify and penalize it and generate synthetic data.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

petra wrote: post #101

sarthakjain wrote: post #15

Deep learning architectures built by machines (so we no longer have to design architecture to solve problems) https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578 Transfer Learning (so we need less data to build models) http://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/torrey... Generative adversarial networks (so computers can get human like abilities at generating content) https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-n…

>> Generative adversarial networks (so computers can get human like abilities at generating content) Does this only apply to artistic content, or also to engineering content ? Say PCB layouts, architectural plans, mechanical designs, etc ?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by mnemotronic » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:23 PM UTC

Curious42 wrote: post #44

rrrhys wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is going to sound really naive... Isn't that just a website?

Here's a really good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cosqlfqrpFA Also, to answer your question, not it's not the same as a website because it will be a native Android app with the ability to communicate with the Android OS, like any other Android app. The possibility of things — in terms of improved UX — that you can accomplish with instant apps are infinite. It all comes down to how you want to use it.

The malware developers are DEFINITELY looking forward to this capability.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by nul_byte » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

develogue wrote: post #48

ThePhysicist wrote: post #29

Not really my main field, but in web technology it seems that severless architectures such as Amazon Lambda will be a pretty big game changer in the near future: Lambdas are lightweight function calls that can be spawned on demand in sub-millisecond time and don't need a server that's constantly running. They can replace most server code in many settings, e.g. when building REST APIs that are backed by cloud services…

Azure has Functions too: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/functions/ Auth0 has Web Tasks: https://webtask.io/ Am sure there are many more implementations out there. Agree that vendor lock-in is always a concern.

To avoid vendor lock in there is Fission that runs on Kubernetes: http://fission.io/

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

pipio21 wrote: post #63

In my company we work using computers for real world applications, in the physical world: Regenerative medicine: understanding DNA code and restoring cells and organs, making eternal youth possible. It will take decades of hard work. Ending cancer: We are studding virus mutations, so we could attack them without invasive techniques. Nuclear fusion: We are simulating plasma physics. This is going to be enormous in ten…

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by moron4hire » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

I've noticed that the quality of conversation on VR has gotten a lot better. Used to be you'd go to a meetup and all you could get out of anyone was either parroting some urban myths about the porn industry driving technological change or looking for tech support on getting Unity set up. People are now asking themselves some really hard questions, like how do we design applications that adapt to both VR and non-VR use (there is an argument to be made that you can't meaningfully do so, but there is another argument to be made that you shouldn't stop your users from trying, as they tend to surprise you), or maybe the game development industry isn't the best model to emulate.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by terragon » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

Existenceblinks wrote: post #20

Embedded systems - Wireless Sensors Networks, I know it has been there for long time but IoT would encourage it more. It could enable development of different kinds of devices as well. Look at camera industry for example. There should be more types of sensor to be more popular than just the image sensor. Quadcopter/Drone/AI etc. In my view, there are still a huge room of applications where wireless and sensor combine…

>> Look at camera industry for example. There should be more types of sensor to be more popular than just the image sensor.

Could you please elaborate on this. I don't understand how the camera industry could go beyond image sensors. They wouldn't be the camera industry anymore if they did that.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by sarthakjain » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

Have any of the methods made radiologists more efficient? If you were to imagine a system that made a radiologist 10x more efficient what would it look like?

Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

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Post by hemezh » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

The way we educate our kids hasn't changed a lot in centuries. MOOCs are great but completion rate is a real and yet unsolved problem.

I believe the biggest advancement in the field of education is going to come with VR. With VR, we can dramatically reduce the cost of "learning while doing", which should be the only way of learning. With AI, we can provide highly personalised paths for learners.

VR and AI technologies are finally coming to a point where together they can provide a breakthrough in industries which are mostly untouched since decades.