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Beyond Smart 5 years ago

This short essay is roughly a synospsis of the theme behind Asimov's short story The Profession.

Here's a great blog from one of the residents - http://blog.otoro.net/

It's like any other (research) endeavor with lots of people involved. Some of us share research interests and so we coalesce around efforts towards accomplishing those goals. Out of the resident pool, I am currently working with Ryan and have had some discussions about collaborations with Denny and Justin.

Take a look at the published papers though and you can see some pairs that have flourished by working in the same vicinity.

This is a wonderful part of the program though, and it doesn't stop with the Residents. Brain is such a great place for ideas to meld and for people to come together to collaborate; it's designed to encourage that.

The current group doesn't end until at least June and so, except for those who just applied to grad schools, we're all continuing to do more awesome research here rather than starting to solidify what comes next.

That being said, this is an unparalleled experience in the field and a phenomenal road to travel regardless of what we decide to do afterward.

It seems that the local minima aren't actually a problem in these high dimensional spaces because most of them are either very close to the global minima or are saddle points, which can be escaped. There was a lot of work on this out of Bengio's lab. One such paper was Dauphin's "Identifying and attacking the saddle point..."

A translation service for large foreign documents (mostly PDFs). There's a first pass reproducing the PDF in html and a second that machine translates it into English. Users can then gist a document and select any section to get professionally translated. It's live at OneDossier.com.

Aye, I just had a back and forth with a tech rep there. They advised me at the end to contact sales to 100% understand, but the gist I got was that the FineReader Engine is $100 and it can do anything the SDK can do, but you have limited functionality in how it can operate with other programs (on Mac, all you get is Automator) and it can't be scaled to many cores. If you don't need that, then it seems to be a pretty damn good deal. Will talk to the sales rep first though.

What kind of problem were you dealing with? Were you bumping up against any constraints?

Where do you see this? I'm actually thinking of buying the software right now and I explicitly asked what other charges are there besides the initial fee (~$100) and they said there wasn't any. Am I not asking the right question?