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chlestakoff··on Natural language neural networks: how deep is too deep?
I wish there were more specific examples.
chlestakoff··on Ghostbot pretends to be you, talking to people you want to avoid
I'd be much more interested in a "secretary" product that openly acts as a gatekeeper and escalates important conversations to me as necessary. But Ghost is named very aptly - that seems to be a footing description for their service.
chlestakoff··on We shut down our startup
It would be really interesting to see long-term stats on success rates of founders who pivoted vs those who persevered with the original idea.
chlestakoff··on Gmail 'Smart Reply': the paper [pdf]
It was trained on 238M messages! This just goes on to show the strategic importance of data in modern machine learning. No wonder Google doesn't mind making the algos public: without the vast training data, they will not get you very far :(
chlestakoff··on DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
Indeed.
chlestakoff··on Apple to release Siri SDK
Also this: http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/apple-prepping-siri-sdk-and...
chlestakoff··on Apple to release Siri SDK
Yes, but there is a summary in one of the comments above
chlestakoff··on Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
Now that you are free to talk about it, could you explain how ASICs stack up against GPUs, in practical terms?
chlestakoff··on Chatbots Are the Newest, Dumbest Co-Workers
Not really, because usage data is what feeds better machine learning models. It's a positive feedback loop.
chlestakoff··on Chatbots Are the Newest, Dumbest Co-Workers
"A majority of bots might not even be intelligent, they're just convenient" - sums it up.
chlestakoff··on [dead]
Who's next?
chlestakoff··on Slack Platform Launch
Will somebody please explain the use cases for slack bots to me? If they are basically glorified command line scripts, the I get it. But are there genuine and important use cases that require/can benefit from a richer dialogue?
chlestakoff··on LA startups are racing to develop transportation
This is not delusion, more like a rational exploitation. Given the 'moonshot' nature of the project and the fact they are planning an IPO, that's a negative signal, sounds like a potential pump-n-dump scheme. Somebody should run a good background check on them.
chlestakoff··on LA startups are racing to develop transportation
Not only they expect talent to work for free, they also expect employees to invest money in their startup: "We will consider your application anyway, but we prefer our co-founders have some "skin in the game." Really?
chlestakoff··on A map of one million scientific papers from the arXiv
I am curious about the 2D embedding method: what constitutes a vector in the original "paper space" and how the 2D clusters where determined.
chlestakoff··on Deep Learning for Visual Question Answering
http://visualqa.org/index.html
chlestakoff··on Deep Learning for Visual Question Answering
Interesting: apparently there is now an open visual Q&A training dataset: 254,721 images, 764,163 questions, 9,934,119 answers!
chlestakoff··on Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
Yes, and the White House are the same guys running planting spyware in the American *ware products used around the world at unprecedented scale. Savvy?
chlestakoff··on Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
"'Yandex', whatever that is" - Yandex is a $10B public company, a legitimate innovator and the top internet player in Russia. Ever heard of that country, or is it yet another "whatever that is" for you?
chlestakoff··on Venture Investing Just Had Its Biggest Q1 in 15 Years, Says PwC Report
Bubble predictor?
chlestakoff··on The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness [pdf]
Qed
chlestakoff··on A Barbie doll with the soul of Siri
Can the parents influence the dialogue in any way?
chlestakoff··on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
Looks like they are going to make materials available to non-Stanford students as well, promising a reddit group.
chlestakoff··on The battle for the customer interface: browser vs. apps vs. Siri vs. chat
The new Magic startup is a great example of the huge value the interface provides, even a thin one.
chlestakoff··on Towards AI-Complete Question Answering, Using Deep Learning
Looks like the FB lab opened access to the tasks database for training. Also, when did Mikolov move leave Google for Facebook?
chlestakoff··on Less.Mail – An email assistant that makes you work less
Isn't this similar to Google Inbox, in a way?