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Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

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Post by cerealbad »

strobe morphing advertisements that are trained to adapt to your unique reaction(s) until it detects the same facial response as the last time you made a purchase. botox, masks, camouflage tattoos, permanent smiling, IR obscurants. the arms race begins a new. benevolent dictatorship by self regulating machines is probably going to plague us for several thousand years. wouldn't that be interesting, if the last evolutionary bottleneck is getting smart enough to create an enclosed planetary system that fully satisfies your biological needs and suppresses all intangible ones so there is no reason to go any further up the chain of exploration.

stopping death means stopping life, every generation is more forgetful of the past than the last. the light ages will be far more destructive, what could possibly motivate you to stop a perpetual pleasure machine? how do you prevent the inevitable conflict between those who insist pain and suffering is an essential part of the human experiment and those who just force them to feel good and change their mind? what will happen to these toddlers in 10-15 years? they will have grown up interfacing with some electronic device for every single day of their young lives, a different type of consciousness shaped by destruction of self-confidence in their own knowledge and memories and a complete trust in the needle-finders of big hay.

this shift will be as important as pre-writing to post-writing, except the transformation won't take centuries and millennia to propagate itself across the planet. a post-memory world, with every human enslaved by their base sensations. the first US president who is an internet addict.

"[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

the future is a fate worse than death.

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#112

Post by bpizzi »

cerealbad wrote: post #111

strobe morphing advertisements that are trained to adapt to your unique reaction(s) until it detects the same facial response as the last time you made a purchase. botox, masks, camouflage tattoos, permanent smiling, IR obscurants. the arms race begins a new. benevolent dictatorship by self regulating machines is probably going to plague us for several thousand years. wouldn't that be interesting, if the last evoluti…

That's a strongly pessimistic view you got here. Are you aware that there's people thinking the opposite of you? The thing is: the reality is always far more balanced that what the extremists are preaching us.

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#113

Post by fnl »

agibsonccc wrote: post #103
fnl wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> While you are right that some feature engineering is needed, there's no reason DL can't be a part of your workflow. I (and, I believe, the earlier poster, too) never implied you can't use deep learning on such examples. What we (I think, both) were referring to was the claim that it would absolve you from feature engineering. (Which I understand you also refute.) > For more of the basics, my book on deep learning m…

A lot of people make money with deep learning with images ;). I guess what I wanted to do was add a bit of nuance. It can help reduce the amount of feature engineering needed. Of course you still need a baseline representation though. More feature engineering also doesn't hurt. I always think of deep learning in the time series context as a neat SVM kernel with some compression built in. With the right tuning it can…

I work with language, not images. There, clever feature engineering isn't just better, it's essential to get anything that is production worthy. In fact, it will even be embedded in some expert system process if your system needs to understand very complex relationships. AI around the corner my ass... :-)

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#114

Post by cerealbad »

bpizzi wrote: post #112
cerealbad wrote: post #111

strobe morphing advertisements that are trained to adapt to your unique reaction(s) until it detects the same facial response as the last time you made a purchase. botox, masks, camouflage tattoos, permanent smiling, IR obscurants. the arms race begins a new. benevolent dictatorship by self regulating machines is probably going to plague us for several thousand years. wouldn't that be interesting, if the last evoluti…

That's a strongly pessimistic view you got here. Are you aware that there's people thinking the opposite of you? The thing is: the reality is always far more balanced that what the extremists are preaching us.

is being disagreeable sufficient claim to argument?[0] is there a profit motive in balance?[1] people with vast weapons of control, deception and war shape reality, is it balanced?[2]

[0][1][2] no

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#115

Post by natch »

fnl wrote: post #99
natch wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean public work perhaps? I imagine they are doing a lot with vision, gait learning, object manipulation, task planning, autonomy, multi-robot coordination, etc. all of which can be enabled by or at least helped along by machine learning, no? Your request for links is valid, I just am surprised anyone would doubt that they are doing ML research unless you are thinking of a strangely narrow definition of ML.

Most of robotics is about reinforcement learning. EDIT: Oh, and expert systems/rules. Lots of em. EDIT2: Well, an engineering, obviously... :-) Heck, just check Wikipedia on the topic...

>Most of robotics is about reinforcement learning.

is != always will be.

But forget that, let's check Wikipedia, as you suggest.

What are the first few words of the article on Reinforcement Learning, hmm. The very first few words at the very beginning of the article:

"Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area of machine learning..."

Read that and tell me what the last two words are. "Machine learning."

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

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Post by bpizzi »

cerealbad wrote: post #114
bpizzi wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a strongly pessimistic view you got here. Are you aware that there's people thinking the opposite of you? The thing is: the reality is always far more balanced that what the extremists are preaching us.

is being disagreeable sufficient claim to argument?[0] is there a profit motive in balance?[1] people with vast weapons of control, deception and war shape reality, is it balanced?[2] [0][1][2] no

I'm sorry, I just don't see what we are argumenting about, to be honest.

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

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Post by GFischer »

npgatech wrote: post #85
jasonkester wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you honestly slagging a guy off for talking about himself on his resume ??? I mean yeah, we computer folk are supposed to be all self deprecating and all. But if there is one place we should stop mumbling and talking ourselves down for a second, that is it. At some point if you want people to know what you do, you're going to have to tell them.

I found his approach tacky, loud and insincere. Of course you should be talking about yourself on your resume but a couple of this that are different here: - Wtf is up with music - 51%/49% thing. - Publicly asking to be hired that reflects poorly on his current job at Google. - Excessively loud self marketing why not have a simple site with your accomplishments? Why all the excess bullshit?

I think that's definitely a cultural thing. It would be in poor taste in my country, but seems very American.

And many of the things he did do sound like he could be a good contributor - I guess you can't know about his personality without an interview.

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#118

Post by agumonkey »

quacker wrote: post #44
kbart wrote: post #34

Information is great, but it would be much more readable in simple text form or pdf. It's strange that senior creative engineer at Google doesn't know presentation making basics.

It's not surprising that a Google engineer would use Google docs. It's at least easily shareable and there are complementary embedded videos that aren't suitable for text/PDF anyway. Though, the options to export as a PDF didn't work for me (either via download or as an export to Google Drive). I'm assuming the presentation is too big.

The document has export feature disabled, but it doesn't change the viewer UI and there's no error message. I wouldn't mind google docs if it wasn't for the heavy animations ...

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#119

Post by purple-again »

bpizzi wrote: post #116
cerealbad wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is being disagreeable sufficient claim to argument?[0] is there a profit motive in balance?[1] people with vast weapons of control, deception and war shape reality, is it balanced?[2] [0][1][2] no

I'm sorry, I just don't see what we are argumenting about, to be honest.

Dude look at the way he expressed his thoughts. Either a troll or a loon. Best not to engage him either way.

Re: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to

#120

Post by agumonkey »

trishmapow2 wrote: post #57
ForFreedom wrote: post #36

How can I download this slide?

Going to the /export/pdf link shows access denied. My quick 3min workaround was to use FF dev tools, settings enable screenshot, click through and save each page.

96 x 2 clicks too

such modern

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