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florianletsch | 8 years ago | on: Building a Poor Man’s Deep Learning Camera in Python

(EDIT due to wrongly stating that models run on the Raspberry Pi directly)

The Google Vision Kit will run models on a custom neural processing chip connected to the Raspberry Pi Zero. With the DIY setup from the blog bost, the neural network runs on a "large pc" (potentially with GPU). Depending on the hardware you have at your disposal, you can run more complex (and therefore more powerful) neural networks. At the same time, you'll need wifi set-up and streaming to work. Completely embedded devices are easier to just put in the wild.

In theory, you should be able to use the models from the Vision Kit if you follow their instructions and just put the on a Raspberry Pi directly, and get an additional Movidius compute stick: https://developer.movidius.com/

florianletsch | 8 years ago | on: Garry Kasparov: Why the world should embrace AI [video]

> (...) the current hype about AI replacing jobs has much more to do with media clickbait than any real issue we should be worrying about right now.

Hype? For sure. But the current advances in autonomous vehicles will have a very real impact on the working life of the common truck driver (3.5 million in US alone), I think we all agree on that.

florianletsch | 9 years ago | on: How to Get a Job in Deep Learning

Sidenote: A common practice is to take a pre-trained model (e.g. on the Imagenet dataset) and only learn the last few layers for your usecase. This way you can get a well trained feature extractor if your task data is similar, and then only train the classification, which is a lot faster than full end-to-end training.

florianletsch | 9 years ago | on: What is the difference between deep learning and usual machine learning?

You can call it an artificial neural network (ANN) as soon as you have two or more artifical neurons connected to each other. As simple as that.

A small amount of neurons might already solve some problem you're having. The XOR problem can be learned by 4 neurons connected to each other.

When you want raw images or similar as an input and have it be classified into 100 classes (e.g. look up CIFAR-10 or CIFAR-100), you will need an architecture with many more neurons.

After all, ANN are simply a tool. Depending on the task, that tool might need to more elaborate. And when you have all those different possible architectures, you want a common way of naming them. Labels such as Deep Learning are simply nomenclature of talking about certain groups of artificial neural networks.

florianletsch | 10 years ago | on: Go 1.6 Beta Released

The submission title is misleading.

> NOTE: This is a DRAFT of the Go 1.6 release notes, prepared for the Go 1.6 beta. Go 1.6 has NOT yet been released. By our regular schedule, it is expected some time in February 2016.

florianletsch | 10 years ago | on: Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online

Are Facebook access tokens vulnerable to such an attack?

If I remember correctly, at least Google tokens wouldn't be: The application receives a token from Google. With that token, a new session token is created. This session token expires and can only be renewed with the application token and the correct redirect URL.

If Facebook uses a similar scheme, tokens would be useless without the running application renewing session tokens.

florianletsch | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax

I don't know what to make of this. I like the general idea but I really don't like the use of Markdown here.

Markdown makes writing markup faster and reading markup easier. It's a limited set of syntax elements optimised for writing and reading text. No more, no less. It is not, however, a new set of language elements to be used for whatever purpose.

For example, how is this:

  __Basic Button|Icon:User,Text:Add Friend__ 
Any better than this?

  <button icon="user" text="Add Friend">
Even YAML seems to be much better suited for structured data like this.

  button
      icon: text
      text: Add Friend
If your aim really is to "lessen the cognitive load", why not work with tools that better work towards that goal?
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