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Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming
A computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms will soon be released by Wolfram Research.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,337 posts.
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Automatic Differentiation: The most underused tool in the machine learning toolbox?
Update: (November 2015) In the almost seven years since writing this, there has been an explosion of great tools for automatic differentiation and a corresponding upsurge in its use. Thus, happily,…
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John Resig dissects the neural network javascript OCR captcha code
A pretty amazing piece of JavaScript dropped yesterday and it’s going to take a little bit to digest it all. It’s a GreaseMonkey script, written by ‘ Shaun Friedle ‘, that automatically solves captchas provided by the site Megaupload . There’s a demo online if you wish to give it a spin.
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Bayes' Theorem explained by Yudkowsky
Bayes’ Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction.
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How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster
This is a war story from my real day job. I work at a start-up company in Pittsburgh that does face detection, tracking, and recognition software. This particular problem involved optimization of the face recognizer.
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Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless
Movie data. Most of the top teams competing in the netflix challenge must have had to answer a lot of questions about movie data. Here is an...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message
Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140 (on our scale). Potential Einsteins are o…