theforgottenone

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Comment · 12 years ago
Yes. But more importantly, we are continuously training our network. There is no terminating "training set" except the set of all considered classifications. Our discovery of ourselves being "wrong" about a thing is our network continually adjusting. We also have the notion of ignorance. These classifiers are often forced to come to a conclusion, instead of having "I don't know, let me look at it from another angle" kind of self-adjustment process. "Aha, it is a cat!" moments do not happen for ai. In us, it would create a whole new layer to wrap the classifier around some uncertainty logic. We would be motivated to examine the reasons behind our initial failure, and use the conclusions to train this new layer, further developing strategies to adapt to those inputs.
Comment · 12 years ago
You really should care more about Kay has to say. There are few truly brilliant people out there, and Kay is one of them.
Comment · 12 years ago
why use python for real work?

For reference, I was handling 30M daily records in about an hour on hardware 15 years ago. This performance is absurd.

Comment · 12 years ago
Why does the word "product" catch people out?
Comment · 12 years ago
reservation bailing, like scalping can be solved through new business models: for reservation fraud, start by taking a creditcard and charge a 5$ reservation fee that is deducted from your bill. For scalping, there are a lot of various approaches that work.
Comment · 12 years ago
I only needed one.
Comment · 12 years ago
If we need a computer science-y role model who happens to be gay, we got Alan Turing. Why get out the second team when the MVP is on the field?
Comment · 12 years ago
Get off client coding, and shit gets more career stable.
Comment · 12 years ago
'Sup
Comment · 12 years ago
It is very difficult for me to translate lessons learned at google to anything except google. I have read a lot of blogs from googlers and formers who write from a perspective of, I guess, a luxury I have literally never seen, even at MS during its golden age. For example, the idea of code reviews and whitespace. I have never worked in an environment where we had that kind of money to spend.
Comment · 12 years ago
If HP can pull this off, it will be as big a wave as the PC, the Web, and the Mobile ones, if not bigger.
Comment · 12 years ago
And aapl and ibm.
Comment · 12 years ago
I am guilty of this more often than I care to admit. Ooops.
Comment · 12 years ago
or an IDE that just scans the code files, picks out the lines of comments containing "TODO" and put them in a list in the gui, so you see it all the time.

Or generate a compile warning instead of a comment. Then it will annoy you constantly, with no risk to production.

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