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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,335 posts.
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Understanding Convolutions (2014)
neural networks , convolutional neural networks , convolution , math , probability
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Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
Update as of November 18, 2021: The version of PySyft mentioned in this post has been deprecated. Any implementations using this older version of PySyft are…
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Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU: CUDA and OpenCL
We generalize the network code and run it on the GPU. On an Nvidia GPU with CUDA, and on an AMD GPU with OpenCL. Even more - we mix both CUDA and OpenCL, jus...
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License Plate Detection Without Machine Learning
Learn how to detect vehicles license plates without heavy Machine Learning techniques, just standard image processing routines.
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Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
Mozilla crowdsources the largest dataset of human voices available for use, including 18 different languages, adding up to almost 1,400 hours of recorded v
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Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy
Carbon-free technologies like renewable energy help combat climate change, but many of them have not reached their full potential. Consider wind power: over the past decade, wind farms have become an important source of carbon-free electricity as the cost of turbines has plummeted and adoption has surged. However, the…
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Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences
Recently, OpenAI came out with a new language model that automatically synthesizes text, called GPT-2. It’s disturbingly good. You can see some examples (cherry-picked, by their own admissio…
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Forecasting in Python with Prophet
A guided walkthrough of how to use the Prophet python library to solve a common forecasting problem.
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Deep Learning on the GPU in Clojure from Scratch: Sharing Memory
Sharing and reusing memory buffers is inescapable if we want high performance. It is a sharp but powerful tool.
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20th Century Fox Uses ML to Predict a Movie Audience
Success in the movie industry relies on a studio’s ability to attract moviegoers—but that’s sometimes easier said than done. Moviegoers are a diverse group, with a wide variety of interests and preferences. Historically, movie studios have relied heavily on experience when deciding to invest in a particular script—but…
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V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison
A cost and speed comparison between the Lambda Hyperplane 8 V100 GPU Server and AWS p3 GPU instances. A very similar comparison to the DGX-1.
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OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues
[latexpage] On Thursday, OpenAI announced that they had trained a language model. They used a large training dataset and showed that the resulting model was useful for downstream tasks where training data is scarce. They
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Better Language Models and Their Implications
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)
You may be interested in my new arXiv paper, joint work with Xi Cheng, an undergraduate at UC Davis (now heading to Cornell for grad school); Bohdan Khomtchouk, a post doc in biology at Stanford; a…
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Incremental Learning – A continuous learning approach (2018)
A few days back I read an article about how Bitcoin’s price can be sufficiently explained by Metcalfe’s law. As you read through the post, resist the temptation to click the links to learn more about Bitcoin, Metcalfe’s law etc. (Maybe you should read about Bitcoin if you have not heard of it). I have provided all the…
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Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe
Posted by Sagar Savla, Product Manager, Machine Perception The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 466 million people globally...
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Einsum Is All You Need – Einstein Summation in Deep Learning (2018)
Tim Rocktäschel — Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Recursive; Professor of AI at UCL. Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, and Recursive Self-Improvement.
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Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy
When making a start in a new field it is common to feel overwhelmed. You may lack confidence or feel as though you are not good enough or that you are lacking some prerequisite. You will explore these issues in this post and learn that such feelings can lead to actions that can consume a […]
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The AI Threat to Open Societies
Good evening and thank you all for coming. I want to use my time tonight to warn the world about an unprecedented danger that’s threatening the very survival of open societies. Last year when I stood before you I spent most of my time analyzing the nefarious role of the IT monopolies. This is what […]
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Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube
That's why we update our recommendations system all the time—we want to make sure we’re suggesting videos that people actually want to watch.