AIMunchkin

Well if they're like Bose, you'll be fine as long as you don't install their helpful app.

I could conceive of a high-fallutin' fidget cube for your mind constructed from this technology.

I could also see it used for both a lie detector and a biofeedback tool to defeat its use as such.

But what really comes to mind is the final scene in Firefox wherein Mitchell Gant has to subvocalize in Russian to fire the rearward missile on the fancy Russian jet he's stolen.

Ergo we should immediately arrest all gunmakers because it's hard to think of another use for guns besides killing things or practicing the art of killing things, no?

GP100 supports FP16 FMAD GP102 supports INT16 and INT8 MAD with 32-bit accumulation

Overall, not impressed with Stratix 10. It won't be cost effective, it's not much more power-efficient, and Volta will likely leapfrog it across the board within a year.

Wasn't this thing supposed to sample in late 2014? Back then it would have been a gamechanger at any price. Now, 1080Ti for $700 beats it across the board in throughput/$. NVIDIA's confusing messaging about using consumer versus professional HW is about the only thing that might make it viable for deep learning. Although I note the absence of training perf numbers here, just (apparently) inference.

My cat stayed by my side to her last day, whereupon she decided to hide in the box I had prepared for her body a week earlier.

She had wasted away to 2/3 her normal weight and was having a horrible time breathing, it was time, and it sucked, even recalling it sucks.

Same thing happened to my cat, I took it to the vet to have a bladder stone removed, and I left with a 2 month terminal cancer diagnosis for her. At least she got a month of life without the bladder stone before she wasted away.

Stupid stoic cats indeed. The only way I could tell she had the bladder stone was when she started peeing outside the litter box. Miss her to this day.

"so any one client 'firing' you is suddenly not a huge thing since your income is distributed across multiple clients"

For whom you have to spend roughly 1/3 of your time on collection because companies don't get rich writing a lot of checks. If it fits your psyche, great. Not everyone is like you.

"But for you, I like the cut of your jib, $100M."

Well yes it is actually, by collecting more data, you are doing a better job marginalizing the distribution of government corruption and waste across the planet. And that can make a seemingly bad thing turn out to actually be relatively good and vice versa.

Or, to quote some famous dead dude: "The World Is a Book and Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only One Page" - St Augustine

Or, to quote Anthony Bourdain himself: “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”

So what would happen if someone created a youtube account called "NotUCBerkeley" and reuploaded all these videos with their playlists intact? Asking for a friend of course!

As someone who has early adopted technology since childhood, I'm surprisingly contrarian on this. And it's not the tech, it's the state of society and industry that's making me feel this way.

For I want said technology to all but disappear Avatar-style except when I need it(1). Along the way I don't want craptastic screendoor VR, I want BSG-reboot Cylon VR. I don't see that coming anytime soon.

I don't want to be bombarded by the outputs of conv nets, SVMs, and other assorted RainMan-level ML models that are occasionally helpful but mostly just distracting factoid spam (see Google Now for a perfect example of this).

I'd love a self-driving car (for real), but I'd love a life where I didn't have to drive everywhere even more. I don't need AI for that, I just need to move to a city. And honestly, driving my sportscar is fun when it's on nearly abandoned mountain roads and highways (see craptastic VR bit about why VR is not a good surrogate). Why would I want to give that up to run with the cool kids(tm)?

I'd even love a brain computer interface, in fact MIT Neuroscience turned me down for admission despite my GPA and GRE scores specifically for saying I wanted to work on this a couple decades ago, but the mobile web is godawful enough already without giving silicon demons like Google and Facebook a direct feed to my brain. I don't trust industry 1 QBit here.

Finally, to quote RadioHead, "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul(tm)." If that makes me a creep, I'm OK with that. If AI (and tech in general) doesn't improve me or my life, I don't want it around me anymore and we're just a few years into this.

1. I work in AI. And I'm trying to make it work behind the scenes rather than in your face. To that end, I focus on pull, and I despise any sort of push short of protecting me from harm or keeping me on my schedule.

Well, why don't you learn a concurrent language like Go, CUDA, or OpenCL and do something about that?

From my vantage point, I remain amazed that people have fled concurrent programming in an age where the hardware for doing so has not only thrived, but which may also be the only path forward from here.