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

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Post by petra »

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 ?

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

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Post by nojvek »

hacksOfSumit wrote: post #11

autonomous cars & swarm control

Not my field but 3D reconstruction and vision to scene graph is amazing. From a single camera, being able to create a video game version of it opens a ton of possibilities. I predict a video game version of all the roads, lakes, buildings of our real world.

This will change real estate websites as well. I can just query for houses with X visual features

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

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Post by jamesrcole »

michaelmior wrote: post #55
lngnmn wrote: post #5

That in the past people used to deceive (delude) themselves and other fools around them with theology, speculations and metaphysics, today they do the same with statistics, probability and abstract models.

It's all a matter of perspective. One could also claim that those who don't acknowledge God are deluding themselves with a lack of theology. I'm not trying to start a debate, but dismissing the beliefs of billions as simply delusion/deception is painting with broad strokes.

Which god? The argument you make could also be made for all people following all the religions aside from the one whose god actually exists. The religions can't all be right, if in fact even one is right.

So sheer quantity of believers doesn't work for making a point.

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

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Post by petra »

samlewis wrote: post #8

In the embedded/IoT world, I'm fairly excited about two upcoming RTOS's: mynewt ( http://mynewt.apache.org/ ) and Zephyr ( https://www.zephyrproject.org/ ).

What's the big benefit over the mbed OS, besides a bit more portability ?

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

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Post by mikecb »

homarp wrote: post #88
mikecb wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. Google has a hosted version of tensorflow, called CloudML, but tensorflow is an open source project that can be run anywhere.

> that can be run anywhere. as long as you have a Nvidia GPU

GPU just speeds up training, it isn't required.

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

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Post by gtycomb »

Enterprise Architecture. What is often an unmanageable bundle of "models", pictures, documentation (UML etc, or tools or “repositories”) giving way to concise and precise schema for architecture decision making – a pleasant outcome of the informal global teamwork surrounding meta-models in DoDAF, simplifying EA activity to a level that has not been anticipated ...

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

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Post by ktta »

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 ?

Artistic only. You'd need an exact verifier in case of engineering designs, and something built with neural networks is not one.

To get a better understanding (other than reading a paper) read this excellent blog post https://openai.com/blog/generative-models/

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

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Post by petra »

reasonattlm wrote: post #85

Safe selective destruction of cells via their internal chemistry, not surface markers, via uptake of lipid-encapsulated programmable suicide gene arrangements. With the right program and a distinctive chemistry to target in the unwanted cell population, this flexible technology has next to no side-effects, and enables rapid development of therapies such as: 1) senescent cell clearance with resorting to chemotherapeut…

How does the targeting work , and is it only inside the cell or also outside of it ?

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

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Post by sporkenfang »

lisivka wrote: post #68
pwython wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been interviewing junior/intermediate frontend candidates for the past few months now. 90% don't use any test tools, and their biggest complaint is their current employer forcing a new framework/library for the sake of being bleeding edge. While interesting to them, it turns out most of them really just want to see what they can do with vanilla JS.

Why you expect that junior developer (someone with very little or no development experience) will use a test tool or any other development technique? I expect that junior developer in software field should be able to program only.

Really? Where I work we expect knowing how to test code and being careful and incremental in our junior candidates more than anything. It's easier to teach someone how to code better than let them send anything to production with 0 tests.

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

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Post by aabajian »

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 and writing a note takes up 90% of a radiologist's time. There are innumerable tools to help radiologists read more images in less time: Dictation software, pre-filled templates, IDE-like editors with hotkeys for navigating reports, etc. There are even programs that automate the order in which images are presented so a radiologist can read high-complexity cases early, and burn through low-complexity ones later on.

What's even more striking is that the field of radiology is standardized, in stark contrast to the EMR world. All images are stored on PACS which communicate using DICOM and HL7. The challenges to full-automation are gaining access to data, training effective models, and, most importantly, driving user adoption. If case volumes continue to rise, radiologists will be more than happy to automate additional steps of their workflow.

Edit: A lot of push back from radiologist is in regards to the feasibility of automated reads, as these have been preached for years with few coming to fruition. I like to point out that the deep learning renaissance in computer vision started in 2012 with AlexNet; this stuff is very new, more effective, and quite different than previous models.

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