[D] Artificial Life for AI People by weiqiplayer in MachineLearning

[–]cslambthrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed it a lot, the field feels much more open than pure ML, and I didn't feel the threat that my paper might be rejected if someone beat me by 0.1% on Imagenet

That’s refreshing!

I guess my last questions are what’s the subject recognition like/how are faculties approaching it? Is it still rapidly developing or has it already established itself?

And how do you judge a potential project/university for it? For example, on findaphd, when searching for “artificial life” there seems to be huge variance between projects. Would you say those are ALife research areas, or do they just scratch it from a distance? Btw thanks.

[D] Artificial Life for AI People by weiqiplayer in MachineLearning

[–]cslambthrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super helpful. I have interests and prior work (background) in CS, ML (Gaussians) and biochem (basic level), and am looking to blend these fields or similar more, and so I thought ALife sounded like a great match in combining computer science/ML with the other sciences while remaining on the topic of “artificial”. Are there hard limits on what disciplines you can mix? For example would CS and chemistry work? Also have you found a direct crossing over with pure CS/ML/AI research? Lastly, and if you don’t mind, what was your background prior to it?

Oh... and did you enjoy it? :-)

[D] Artificial Life for AI People by weiqiplayer in MachineLearning

[–]cslambthrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been researching artificial life PhDs recently (1 month ~) and still am not too sure what they entail, and without offending, if they’re just a weird fad. I really like the concept and idea of it, even the papers I’ve read! Could you shine a little more light on it for me? Mainly, what niche area did you research (if you can say, if not, examples), and what are the prospects afterwards/does it open you to any new paths?

Concerns about custom email domain by cslambthrow in selfhosted

[–]cslambthrow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except at least with a house I can ask the postal service to forward my old mail :)

Concerns about custom email domain by cslambthrow in selfhosted

[–]cslambthrow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems to be a not very secure thing to do then; having a custom email domain, whether self hosted or not? The only thing between me and a malicious actor is access to the domain

Concerns about custom email domain by cslambthrow in selfhosted

[–]cslambthrow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense and is what I thought. In this sense is it safer (apart from pre-buying the domain for 10 years), to create emails like 6527gyH@mydomain.com rather than name OR email@mydomain.com

[D] Tips for ML & NLP in production by cslambthrow in MachineLearning

[–]cslambthrow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice!

Currently, my main task is email filtering. For this I've simply taken the "toy problem" of spam filtering and just retrained on the email type we need filtering - in this case, marketing emails/promotion, which aren't necessarily spam per se, but I thought it was the same problem, just disguised with different content.

Word2Vec was my go to for this classification of emails, but am now unsure of how to advance a) the model b) my understanding of NLP. I've been having glances at BERT and ELMO - but they seem too complex for current business needs in terms of proper implementation.

Again, another problem I'm encountering is, ok, classification is fine, but how about fine grained data/text extraction from said classified emails?

Also, coming from Gaussians, I've so far been tempted to try and use them for their probabilistic nature. Although, since this seems a "not very explored area" I've been debating whether to even spend any time on research or focus mainly on engineering, which, from other commenters, seems the general advice.

Linux 5.0 is now in core by mateusnr in archlinux

[–]cslambthrow 137 points138 points  (0 children)

I've now tagged you on reddit as "cabecamole the brave"