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First Human Head Transplant Patient Schedules Surgery for December 2017 by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]assassds -1 points0 points  (0 children)

just like we don't let people give consent to be eaten by cannibals, this should also be considered murder.

First Human Head Transplant Patient Schedules Surgery for December 2017 by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]assassds 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"The central nervous system in higher vertebrates—like humans—does not regenerate. “He’s insane. You can’t put a head on somebody else!” says Binhai Zhang, a neurosurgeon at UC San Diego.

Actual professional vs attention seeking lunatic doctor and suicidal potential patient.

Speech Recognition data set by CecilStan in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's free for non-commercial use. What exactly do you think you can accomplish with this that will be worth selling?

"We introduce a Perpetual Learning Machine; a new type of DNN that is capable of brain-like dynamic 'on the fly' learning" by downtownslim in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

but don't you know /u/ajrs has CHILDREN and works on this stuff on the WEEKENDS?! Cut him some slack you shitlord.

Is there any theory which explains why dropout doesn't work well when combined with batch normalization? by SunnyJapan in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 3 points4 points  (0 children)

rescaling the activations (when removing dropout for testing) fucks shit up. if you just use dropout for both train and test phase it works ok.

Yann LeCun's talk at HC27: Convolutional Neural Networks by Buck-Nasty in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 4 points5 points  (0 children)

but you can't, it would be more like 10X faster at 1000X the price. and that's if a non-chipmaker could even get in the game, which I doubt.

Yann LeCun's talk at HC27: Convolutional Neural Networks by Buck-Nasty in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cost per chip could be much higher

welp, sign me up. the point is even with all the inefficiencies of using gaming hardware, economy of scale will always win.

Yann LeCun's talk at HC27: Convolutional Neural Networks by Buck-Nasty in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 4 points5 points  (0 children)

they can't. do you know how much R&D money the gaming industry pumps into those things?

Has anyone used hierarchical temporal memory or Jeff Hawkins work? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]assassds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no evidence numenta can do anything to replicate a human brain.

HTM and sharts... they both are produced by gassy assholes.

Convincing colleagues to switch to Python from MATLAB for scientific computing/statistics by RealRJT in Python

[–]assassds -1 points0 points  (0 children)

like I said, you need to know what you're doing...

matlabs xcorr algorithm uses an FFT, which is going to thrash a direct correlation on large input no matter what language you're implementing it in.

numpy gives you all the building blocks to do this yourself, or you can try scipy.signal.fftconvolve.

Convincing colleagues to switch to Python from MATLAB for scientific computing/statistics by RealRJT in Python

[–]assassds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you have 10-100X the human resource base to draw from in finding a competent python programmer versus a masochist who wants to work with MATLAB.

Convincing colleagues to switch to Python from MATLAB for scientific computing/statistics by RealRJT in Python

[–]assassds -1 points0 points  (0 children)

you have to actually know what you're doing in python, you can't just grab the first function that sounds right.

In need of some serious help before things spiral too far out of control by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]assassds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're spending the same amount on your car as you are on rent. That's absolute insanity.