Despoisj
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Machine Learning & Deep Learning Scientist, Programmer, Musician
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Comment · 2 months ago
I that this addresses a threat model that we often neglect in AI safety talks.
It's not about a godlike self-improving AGI destroying the world (yet), but a more virus-like process that is surprisingly close to being possible today.
Not a malicious sentient agent plotting something evil, but just the AI version of a computer worm, replicating and hiding, hoping to move closer to its initial goal.
(Hopefully not to disassemble carbon-based lifeforms to make more paperclips.)
It's hard to see how we could effectively get rid of such a polymorphic virus, granted that the compute and weight size are small enough.
Comment · 4 years ago
I made a 6 sided square flexagon puzzle for my dad, it's surprisingly simple yet can take forever to solve.
If interested, I've spend quite some time looking for more square flexagons, and made one with 12 and another with 14 faces (along with a puzzle version)! Tricky to build properly but stunning.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for the feedback!
Comment · 6 years ago
As a former Kindle developer, I can say that most of what's mentioned in this article are metrics used to understand how the features are used (bookmarks, highlights, dictionnary, etc.), how much they are used, and in which country.
This allows the teams to focus on features that are actively used, and sometimes lead to discontinuing features that see little to no use.
Hope that helps.
Comment · 6 years ago
During the interview for my current job (Machine Learning & Deep Learning Scientist), I didn't get any theoretical questions on machine learning, but only questions on my projects.
I didn't study machine learning per say, I followed dozens of online courses but no diploma in this exact field, and my last job was in traditional software engineering.
Despite this, I managed to do two small projects (one of music genre recognition [1] on my own iTunes library, and one of eye motion recognition [2]). For both I had published the code on my GitHub, and written a small Medium article to expose the problem I was trying to solve, the data available, the issues I faced and how I overcame them.
I personally believe that this is all the recruiter wanted to know, and why I encourage interns and candidates to work on their side projects.
References of the projects: [1] https://github.com/despoisj/DeepAudioClassification [1] https://medium.com/@juliendespois/finding-the-genre-of-a-son... [2] https://github.com/despoisj/DeepEyeControl [2] https://medium.com/hackernoon/talk-to-you-computer-with-you-...
Comment · 6 years ago
What about using the "-" sign to filter results instead of relying on complex language understanding?
=> "shirt -stripes" works pretty well on google at least
Comment · 9 years ago
This is a very naive question, but considering the artifacts you have on the GAN-generated images, you are trying to generate the whole "palette image" at a certain resolution.
For which reasons did you not use a 5x1 pixel RGB image as the target, that would have been orders of magnitude faster to train?
Thanks!