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Comment · 15 days ago
Surprised so many people are defending this, just because there are also reasonable statements in the hidden prompt. Of course it makes sense to give agents some more context in how to deal with a user and to make it clear the agent is not a legal spokesperson for Meta. But how they are blatantly manipulating the agent to hide the users' rights from them is outrageous to me.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
No one mentioning Facebook? Them forcing you to use the messenger app to be able to communicate on the mobile is using the same strategy. I have to use a different browser and use desktop mode to see messages. Writing then becomes horrible too. Not using fb messenger at all anymore an complain to people who text me on there.
Comment · 6 years ago
The concept of a major depressive disorder exists. There are common symptoms and likely causes such as childhood trauma. Can we be certain it is a unanimous mental disorder? No, it might as well be several different disorders we haven't understood yet. But isn't that similar for most mental disorders?
Comment · 7 years ago
If we eliminate king from the result list I would assume it's plural is removed as well. Bummer, that would mean the latent space algebra in this example has no effect whatsoever..
Comment · 7 years ago
What happens if you get the latent space of king, do no algebra and return the outcome with king being excluded? In case it's queen, then the author is correct and these examples are highly misleading. In case it's something like prince, Lord or ruler of the seven kingdoms the latent space algebra would be suitable imho.

Also, if we think about it in terms of decision manifolds, it seems the distance between queen and king is too large for the simple - man + woman to have an effect. Why not scale that substraction, so it leads to a change in predicted class without removing king? But of course finding a justifiable weight would be hard..

Comment · 7 years ago
Does it still have a "massive number of agencies" compared to the EU and all its member states? I don't think so.
Comment · 7 years ago
The group's behind the Panama Papers, Cum-Ex Scandals, LuxLeaks etc.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm doing a PhD in Berlin, living in Kreuzberg and I can tell you far from all of the programmers that I know want to live here!

What makes Kreuzberg attractive for startups and a Google campus is that it's central and perfectly connected infrastructurewise. Most other regions like Schöneberg, parts of Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg and maybe Moabit, are all harder to reach from some other regions, even though more start-up employees live there. You can see on the maps of rental e-scooters like Coup how during the day there is a lot of activity towards Kreuzberg whereas after work the district is basically empty of their scooters. Imho kreuzberg is too dirty for most startupers. I guess they don't want to see the heroin junkies of Kotti when they do their grocery shopping.

In general I liked the sentiment of the activists against placing a Campus in Kreuzberg. Nevertheless I didn't like much of their public attitude ("bullets for google") and some arguments seemed superficial ("other Google campuses have increased rents" idk about the causality and factor here). I wouldve liked a Google campus in Schöneberg for example, just as I liked the Google campus in Madrid. In Madrid it offered a nice environment for work, some interesting talks and I didn't feel like it was in an artsy district that suddenly gentrified and turned hip. This could've added something to Berlin, but meddling with the activist scene in Kreuzberg was a poor choice.

Comment · 8 years ago
I have not read a single economist.com article in the last couple of months but the paywall tells me I've reached my limit. How badly can your paywall be implemented? This is I guess the most disencouraging thing from me getting a paid subscription.

Anyone else having the same issue?

Comment · 8 years ago
Charité Berlin | Berlin, Germany | PhD Candidate in machine learning applied on neuroscience | Full-Time

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning for healthcare? We are offering a PhD position at Charité Berlin.

German is not required! ______________________________________________________________ Deep Learning in clinical neuroimaging

PhD scholarship (starting October/November 2018, initially for 2 years; Promotionsstipendium II at Charité)

At the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (Charité), we are looking for a motivated and highly talented PhD student for various research questions within the interdisciplinary field of deep learning and clinical neuroimaging. In particular, we employ convolutional neural networks for finding new representations from neuroimaging data in order to predict disease conversion and future clinical disability in neurological as well as psychiatric diseases. Whereas previous disease decoding approaches mostly relied on expert-based extraction of features in combination with standard classification algorithms and thus strongly depend on the choice of data representation, convolutional networks are capable of learning hierarchical information directly from raw imaging data. By this, they have a great potential for finding unexpected and latent data characteristics and might perform as a real “second reader”. A major focus will be on visualization techniques to make the learned content of convolutional neural networks visible.

Requirements for the PhD student: - Very good degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology, computational neuroscience or related subject. - Very good programming skills (e.g. Python) - Experience in machine learning - Good writing and communication skills (in English)

Please send your application (motivation+CV) in one pdf-file (in English or German) to:

Dr. Kerstin Ritter Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Bernstein-Zentrum für Computational Neuroscience Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Sauerbruchweg 4, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin Email: [email protected]

Comment · 8 years ago
Great, intuitive explanations with a nice mix of code and formulas. Only I found the GIFs to be very annoying while reading, especially as they do not add to the content.
Comment · 8 years ago
One shouldn't linearly extrapolate science.
Comment · 8 years ago
I was happily surprised the other day when the IBM debater was presented and there was no mention of it being Watson anywhere on their website. They really need to stop with this personification.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's not the case. A year or two ago some of my friends who work at IBM couldn't tell me themselves what Watson really is. As of today I understand Watson as everything from IBM that can be related to AI, I.e. it includes IoT as well because the data could be used by AI.

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