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samirparikhon Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact

I wonder what this means for TRI/TRI-AD which currently work on AV development for Toyota.

samirparikhon Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

This is another form of collaboration. You could publish your innovations in some technical forum w/o code and it'll automatically drive the industry forward since SOTA results will be available.

Right now, no one really knows the performance of the Waymo system. Millions of miles doesn't mean a lot. I can do billions of miles in a parking lot with no cars or pedestrians. Even millions of miles on road doesn't say anything about the performance of the components.

samirparikhon Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock

I work on self-driving cars. Imho, companies need to collaborate on certain aspects like perception instead of competing. The vehicle is basically blind beyond the range of the sensors or if you miss a detection. Collaboration on these issues will lead to faster progress instead of competing.

samirparikhon Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?

contact me - you can check one of my submissions, it has my email.

samirparikhon YC AI

Seeing as how sam altman has invested in an AI startup (vicarious.com), which is pursuing robotics applications, why would he/YC want to fund competitors for RFS ?

samirparikhon A JavaScript deep learning and reinforcement learning library

I had the same question a month ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13380076)

samirparikhon Save the Date by Google

its lat,lng with the . representing the decimal point

samirparikhon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Fujitsu Laboratories of America | Sunnyvale, CA | Intern | Onsite

If you are excited about using deep learning to teach robot's new skills and help improve their manipulation abilities, get in touch with me at sparikh@us.fujitsu.com

The ideal candidate is skilled in deep learning frameworks such as keras/theano/tensorflow. He/She has experience building and training deep learning models using CNN's, LSTM's, RNN's.

The candidate is expected to participate in new idea generation and scientific paper publication. This is a research internship.

samirparikhon Ask HN: How does a beginner best spend one week of learning machine learning?

Thanks for making this post. I am in the EXACT same position as you. Just finished 65% of the ML course on coursera and was wondering how to dive in deeper.

Question for the audience: Will self-learning be enough to get me considered for a job in this area ? I work on stuff that completely unrelated right now (MSEE in circuits).

samirparikhon Instant splash pages for iOS apps

I've been looking for something like this ! I'm about to launch an app and need a splash page. This looks like the perfect way to do it.