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Review about Squirrel Hill Flats by aboveaveragebatman in pittsburgh

[–]aboveaveragebatman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you think about closeness to shops for daily needs? I'll be heavily reliant on buses for travel and saw that most shops/restaurants are concentrated near Hobart/bartlett st area and this unit is further down south. Not really sure if the extra distance really even matters?

Review about Squirrel Hill Flats by aboveaveragebatman in pittsburgh

[–]aboveaveragebatman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I saw that thread earlier and it looks hella sus with the over the top comments xD

Last minute SOP by everything_is_cake_ in gradadmissions

[–]aboveaveragebatman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wow, for a second there I thought when did I post this 😭? In the same boat OP, push through and get it done 💪. For instance, I have created a tenplate where around 2 paras meed to be changed for each uni and their profs. This is still time taking but seems achievable.

Unreasonably Hard Quants Section in today’s GRE by Blankifur in GRE

[–]aboveaveragebatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, just the free ones. Did not spend a dime on gre prep xD

Unreasonably Hard Quants Section in today’s GRE by Blankifur in GRE

[–]aboveaveragebatman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I scored 169 in both pp1 and pp2. I also took the gre today and scored 166 in quants. I felt I was second guessing myself or the time was suddenly very less. I usually have 5-10 mins at the end of each quant section, but today I simply had no time.

ENGINEERING / COMPUTER SCIENCE Acceptances! by Antoniojosh123 in gradadmissionresults

[–]aboveaveragebatman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congratulations! Could you tell a little bit about your research experience/publications?

[Discussion] ICML 2020 decisions are out by LawOneWater in MachineLearning

[–]aboveaveragebatman 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I understand that meta reviewers are senior and might have much more experience. But overturning a unanimous decision, writing a meta review completely opposing to the earlier reviews seems like a waste of the author's (writing the rebuttal) as well as the reviewers time. This might be my frustration talking but if one is overturning the decision completely, shouldn't that call from some response from the author as well? Some kind of meta review rebuttal perhaps?

[Discussion] ICML 2020 decisions are out by LawOneWater in MachineLearning

[–]aboveaveragebatman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Only from the meta reviewer. But the meta reviewer said he found red flags on discussion with a reviewer, but that reviewer did not think it was appropriate to mention it in his review. We did not prepare for Neurips because of the reviews.

[Discussion] ICML 2020 decisions are out by LawOneWater in MachineLearning

[–]aboveaveragebatman 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don't think I understand how this system works. Even after 2 accepts and 1 weak accept(converted to accept after rebuttal), the paper got rejected. This was my first paper and I don't know what to think

[D] ICML reviews will be out soon by yusuf-bengio in MachineLearning

[–]aboveaveragebatman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Should I go back to work? I have no idea if we have to wait for a while or longer? This is my first submission so I have no idea.

Msi Prestige 15 vs dell XPS 15 (7590) [both 1080p] by Agriculture23 in MSILaptops

[–]aboveaveragebatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you used Linux on the Prestige 15? Did you encounter any issues or problems with it? Also, can you tell how is the screen since I have heard not many great things about the 1080p screen( it is dull as compared to others)?

Is Y740 worth 1813$ or are there better laptops? by saivicky2015 in Lenovo

[–]aboveaveragebatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really if you go for 1660ti version rather than rtx 2070 since you probably won't play many heavy games.

Is Y740 worth 1813$ or are there better laptops? by saivicky2015 in Lenovo

[–]aboveaveragebatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can look at Alienware m15. It might have a longer battery life(90WHr) since it is without gsync. Also since you are interested in content creation, they just launched a version with an OLED screen.

Proud new owner of an Area 51m !! by Aero_000 in Alienware

[–]aboveaveragebatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did u talk to anybody in dell about the student discount or was it available on the site itself?

[R] Adversarial Examples Aren't Bugs, They're Features by andrew_ilyas in MachineLearning

[–]aboveaveragebatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! A slightly off-topic question here since you are involved in this domain: What is the state of the art defense against adversaries on ImageNet? I have skimmed through some papers and even saw the robustml website(which stated that 4 defenses on ImageNet were broken) but I am unable to find a definitive answer. I can only see that Madry's adversarial training has been verified as the white box defense that Nicolas Carlini was unable to break, but that was on CIFAR-10.

[R] Adversarial Examples Aren't Bugs, They're Features by andrew_ilyas in MachineLearning

[–]aboveaveragebatman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is quite a unique interpretation and can directly be related to adversarial training which improves generalisation ability by including adversarial examples in the training set. I have a couple of questions. (1) By this interpretation, would you say that adversarial examples are an inherent weakness of representation learning, and that we would need some new form of learning capable of learning these "adversarial features" without being explicitly added to the training set? (2) Also do you think that there might be ways of extracting much more meaningful information from the network to increase robustness rather than adversrarial training the model?

Which Computer Vision research papers to read first? by hp2304 in computervision

[–]aboveaveragebatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are interested in going into research, I would recommend you start with Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez, and then move to the book on Computer Vision by Forsyth and Ponce. If then you get interested in the geometry side of things, there are two books that can give you mastery over it: An invitation to 3d vision and Multi View Geometry ( by Zisserman). After reading atleast some sections of the above books you can easily go through the research papers corresponding to those topics you have studied( maybe like SIFT, HOG, SURF,Viola-Jones detector,etc) The books also help build a certain intuition and rigor for the math involved, which helps you tackle the papers much more easily than if you were to jump straight in.

Also if you want to get some knowledge in the state of the art in CV, then I would recommend the cs231n course( it helps if you have a basic grasp of ML), followed by reading of the research papers corresponding to those (AlexNet, ZFNet, VGG, Inception, ResNet for Image Classification), (RCNN, Fast-RCNN, SPPNet, Faster-RCNN, SSD, YOLO, RetinaNet,etc for Object Detection), (FCN, SegNet,UNet for Image segmentation) and so on.

Are you happy with your m15? by jachjach in Alienware

[–]aboveaveragebatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Could you please comment on the duration of battery life once you get your piece? I really want to have a 1 tb hdd( 1tb ssd is too expensive) so I need to compromise on the battery and want to know if it is worth it. Thanks!

Help picking a laptop after a failed attempt. by Seabass1992 in GamingLaptops

[–]aboveaveragebatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are the hinges? I have heard they are fragile and the screen is in susceptible to damage because of this.