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How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

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Re: How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

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WordLens was an awesome app and it's good to see that Google is continuing the development.

The new fad for using the 'deep' learning buzzword annoys me though. It seems so meaningless. What makes one kind of neural net 'deep' and are all the other ones suddenly 'shallow' ?

Re: How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

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post #5

WordLens was an awesome app and it's good to see that Google is continuing the development. The new fad for using the 'deep' learning buzzword annoys me though. It seems so meaningless. What makes one kind of neural net 'deep' and are all the other ones suddenly 'shallow' ?

Well, if all it cares about is looks...

Re: How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

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"Squeezes" is very relative. These phones are equal to or larger than most desktops 10-15 years ago, back when I was doing AI research with evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms. We did some pretty mean stuff on those machines, and now we have them in our pockets.

Re: How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

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What are the advantages of using a neural network over generating classification trees or using other machine learning methods? I'm not too familiar with how neural nets work, but it seems like they require more creator input than other methods, which could be good or bad I suppose.
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