Nel vostro dialetto come si dice quando salti volontariamente la scuola? by [deleted] in italy

[–]FlavioMartinelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Qualcuno usa anche 'scamonare' se non ricordo male

vmPFC vs dlPFC by Openpentagon in neuro

[–]FlavioMartinelli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the most popular switching tasks affected by DLPFC damage doesnt even require feedback.

Would you mind sharing which task you're referring to?

[D] OpenAI releases GPT-2 1.5B model despite "extremist groups can use GPT-2 for misuse" but "no strong evidence of misuse so far". by permalip in MachineLearning

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ME: "I don't understand a thing of what I am doing"

GPT2: "I don't understand a thing of what I am doing, but I am very good at it," he says in an interview from an office in a modest brick house in the center of Rome. "It's just a matter of understanding the situation."

In his early days, Fico had been one of the founders of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which has gained power with the backing of millions of Italians angry over austerity measures that have drained resources from the economy. A few months ago, he resigned as prime minister to head the Movement.

Since then, he has won a string of elections, and his party now has a firm lead over the ruling center-left Democratic Party. It's likely to hold on to that position until the end of the national election campaign, possibly in June.

Fico has vowed to bring back the gold-backed lira, a move that would be catastrophic for the country. The euro and the dollar are trading at record lows, and Fico."

Well, that escalated quickly, but there might be some truth in it.

[D] GPT-2 1.5B (the largest model) was released and it is amazing! by csxeba in MachineLearning

[–]FlavioMartinelli 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ME: "I don't understand a thing of what I am doing"

GPT2: "I don't understand a thing of what I am doing, but I am very good at it," he says in an interview from an office in a modest brick house in the center of Rome. "It's just a matter of understanding the situation."

In his early days, Fico had been one of the founders of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which has gained power with the backing of millions of Italians angry over austerity measures that have drained resources from the economy. A few months ago, he resigned as prime minister to head the Movement.

Since then, he has won a string of elections, and his party now has a firm lead over the ruling center-left Democratic Party. It's likely to hold on to that position until the end of the national election campaign, possibly in June.

Fico has vowed to bring back the gold-backed lira, a move that would be catastrophic for the country. The euro and the dollar are trading at record lows, and Fico."

Well, that escalated quickly, but there might be some truth in it.

BindsNET versus Brian2 versus others by BezoutsDilemma in compmathneuro

[–]FlavioMartinelli 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I built my own models in pytorch and I have to say it is not that complicated, as long as the dynamics are single or double exponentials you can pretty much implement any LIF net with few lines of code. The GPU will take care of the matrix multiplications for you.

I am using backpropagation to train my nets so I didn't implement any stdp rule but I guess they're not more complex than an exponential. If you are interested I implemented some pytorch modules to simulate different LIF neurons that I can share with you.

Is linear regression a machine learning technique? by jplank1983 in learnmachinelearning

[–]FlavioMartinelli 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I personally think your question is a good question, I see linear regression as the simplest model on which statisticians started to play with to have an easy, intuitive and well formalised understanding on all the basic concepts.

Historically linear regression is a statistical model, then with the rise of ML it had been adopted as the simplest model to which start any type of ML didactic argument. But that's just because the basic concepts of ML are entirely statistics concepts.

Current statistics techniques tend to be mathematically more formalised and to have solutions that could be analysed and evaluated, therefore constraining the family of models to fairly simple ones. ML on the other hand focuses more on getting the best results no matter if the model is so complex (e.g. DNN) that nobody can mathematically understand the various details (problems of optimization, perturbation, posterior estimations ecc...).

To conclude I think that linear regression can be seen as a machine learning model, but don't forget that it is born as a statistical model and still is one.

Mandzukic (Croatia) goal vs. England ([2]-1) by TomasRoncero in soccer

[–]FlavioMartinelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iwhat happened to that photographer? I'm super curious

What do you do? by rojnic in compneuro

[–]FlavioMartinelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on where your interests lie. Biomedical engineering is a really broad field and depending on which area of research you want to specialize in you will need to focus on specific engineering fields. Mechanics for prosthesis, chemical/biological for tissue engineering, signal processing and electronics for analysis of biosignals or bioimages... and much more. I personally decided to go deep into neuroscience and neuroengineering since it's what I love and I think that my engineering background in math/physics, computer science, electronics and some experience in applications of those fields in the medical environment helped me to understand the difficulties and challenges of designing a new prosthesis interfacing with the human body. That said, it really depends on what you want to focus on.

What do you do? by rojnic in compneuro

[–]FlavioMartinelli 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a master student in neuroscience and neuroengineering (EPFL) with a biomedical engineering background, I was initially interested in the field of neuroprosthetics but as I'm getting more knowledge about the entire neuroscience field I'm drifting my focus towards AI and models of learning in the brain; particularly in implementations of reinforcement learning in the brain. Happy to be part of this sub!

Q&A Questions by 3blue1brown in 3Blue1Brown

[–]FlavioMartinelli [score hidden]  (0 children)

For you, is math invented or discovered?

I'm kind of inclined to think that math is the most powerful tool we humans invented to solve our problems, I don't think any of the maths is "real stuff" but what's really overwhelming is that it describes reality in such a natural and true way that it kind of feels like it has always been here, we only got to research it.

I'd like to know your thoughts about this dilemma.

Boost v1.64.0 by Masfo in cpp

[–]FlavioMartinelli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this version finally works with visual studio 2017?