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You basically prove my point.

Your "proof" is some admirer claiming this guy discovered it [1] ? You realize, even if this were true, he'd (atleast) be third in the game. Also where pray tell me where is this glorious "proof" you were bandying about earlier ?

"Legend", you might want to look up the word. Or may be words are not quite for the big-mouthed ? ggrks man!

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-did-Pythagoras-arrive-at-the-Pytha...

Exercise in dealing with such "Exhibit A"'s:

Pythagoras' school provided the earliest documented proof of the theorem, but the result was possibly known as early as 3000 BC.

Actually there is no known evidence Pythagoras or his school had any relation to the theorem. Much of it is word-of-mouth legend (and even then not particularly informative).

It's amusing when the same people accept legends from Europe as canonical, while treating similar historical data in India as literally non-existent.

Don't be too enamored. These are fairly standard right wing talking points in India. From his comments on Gandhi and Pythagoras one can easily infer that he is a supporter of Narendra Modi and Hindu supremacy.

As for Gandhi, he grew up in a strictly birth based hierarchical society and he pretty much accepted social and racial hierarchies until his thoughts evolved circa 1913. Most of Gandhi's racist quotes come from before 1910.

I guess the Native Americans too were "supremacists". How about the Bantus, don't forget them, man! ... These narratives get mind-numbingly boring; much as it does to hear of the BJP as some great establishment challengers. Eesh, don't you sheep read anything other than the Hindu's editorials ? In any case, this has typically been the talking point of the status quo-ists and pro-establishment ones for .. what 300 years ?

I'd not keep my hopes up with such creatures though since they have neither the afflictions of reading nor of reason. Social creatures will exploit the status-quo for maximum gain, and anyone who claims we (even in the occident) don't live in a hierarchical society are naive fools not worth arguing with.

Don't you think that's a bit strange ? The dude was helping the massacre the Bantus in Africa and suddenly becomes a "messiah" in a few years after returning to India ? I mean that is a miracle [1]. I wish historical figures were reassessed every few years in light of contemporary ethics, but this never happens with those the establishment wants you to see in positive light.

His antics are well-documented (with lots of references here).

https://sringeribelur.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/gandhi-articl...

He probably single-handedly delayed India's independence by ~20-30 years (was't that convenient).

[1] Okay that was a bit of an exaggeration since the Liberal movement essentially believed that it was the burden of the white race to civilize the barbarians (to paraphrase John Locke). Indians were I guess A-san (3rd class ? Or may be 2nd back in those days)... which is what Gandhi too believed.

Wow! How much do people manage to generally save in Japan as opposed to SF ?

It's not clear that it will change every industry; it'll definitely lead to great job losses in certain fields with the oncoming ADAS boom.

I can't think of other areas where it'll have such a big impact. Robotics (other than Automated driving) has decades more left to fulfill its promise.

Seems like PR bait. Tim Davis' page is much much nicer.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/synopsis/

I think Trefethen too has nice visualization like this (or maybe that was the spectral thing).

Oh really?

Pray tell me, oh self-conceited one, what I missed that is both in actual use and in that book ? For things outside this set, you'd not read this book anyway; nor would such things be called "deep learning" (other than may be RBMs).

Don't need to when you read papers.

The only "math" in deep learning is given by reverse mode AD (or if you're into fancy stuff, "efficient computing of pullbacks"). The rest of it plain old hacking, and empirical tricks with the occasional variational doodads.

Yeah, nature is concerned with our petty lives and freedoms.

You may as well ask:

"Why are parish school students so Christian". This is not to say that they viscerally believe in these qualities... oh nooo. It's just that if you want to play the game, you optimize for the environment (I may have picked that up from Alan Watts). Simple RL really.

Idiots, and loudmouths, on the other hand will get ostracized and have pots broken over their heads; one shouldn't be surprised if something one writes on a public forum will get one fired from school/work (may have happened to the younger me once). This is not the depressing thing though - no the depressing thing is that the rules of the game are never explained clearly. In this sense, the Western liberal dogma is essentially the Christian one of grovelling expiation. You know... one can be as bad in action, but words and "belief", expressed tirelessly over and over, are key to salvation [1]. Terrible, terrible messaging to the naive younglings.

This probably explains why some (generally poor) idiots in the Midwest send tons of money to "harvest Asia in the name of Christ" (well atleast to those in power), while jumping up an down to keep these "loved" people away from their neighborhood. Then there is the New Age movement, "meditating" and "yoga-ing" for "peace" "health" and "environment" (and lots of greens), while showing total disdain for the path [2]... Namast.. No, fk you!

All this facade gets really really tiring.

[1] The laity in much of Asia believe in very similar things to be fair... although they don't get bonked on the head with a book everytime they are out of line.

[2]　acharya: "Guru" lit. he who walks the path

Considering the glut of neural network libraries, it'd be useful if there were some blurb about what makes this "special".

To clarify myself, "what niche does this belong to". Caffe for instance remains (to the misery of people like me) the standard library on which reference CNNs are implemented (other than that little pony's YOLO :P).

Tensorflow/MXnet/Chainer/Torch have nice dynamic interfaces... but basically are doing the same thing underneath (calling cuDNN/GEMM), and have the backing of well-known researchers/big corporations (maybe not Chainer...).

Sadly you can only share pickleable objects in python multiprocessing.

Clearly you've never run any of the object detection nets. State of the art is still 70 fps on Pascal for a 300x300 image.

I'm not going to waterdown my analysis for some two bit politically correct occidentals and "hyper-nationalist" orientals.

A large fraction of Indian children will be illiterate in these "thriving" languages in the coming decades, with "zero" monetary loss. Not living is death, and they haven't been alive for a long time - I can neither get any Govt. services in my mother tongues, nor can get the laws done by the colonial state in Delhi.

A zombie is not alive IMO. If Indians wish to parlay their tongues for money, it's upto them. I for one will not deceive myself. We are going to be part of the borg that is the Anglosphere in less than 3-4 generations.

To be fair, the Wikipedia sites for these languages barely have any content. Of those that do exist most articles are essentially 2-line blurbs. These languages are essentially dead for all practical purposes.

Frankly you're overstretching. If you've ever driven in India you'd be questioning the very basis of humanity.

There are deep cnn models for doing joint recognition detection at around 60fps (at 300x300) at reasonable accuracy 75%.

This is arguably the most expensIve part of the pipeline, but we sHould have atleast two more architectures out by NVDA/AMD before any product comes out.

I wish people benchmark GEMM performance for all of us math folk.

The guy also chairs the steering committee of Bildeberg.

Indeed! I had to struggle with a consumer hp dv65xx for a few years before I finally got my hand on a thinkpad. Opening it up was a nightmare, and I broke random plastic things everytime I opened it up.

An artifice-ial language constructed based on ostensible ideological "homeland" based in the Baltics, is closest to one of the Baltic languages ?

Gee, you don't say.

> "A deeper realization came further on: there might be limitations in language itself and our ability to represent ideas and think about them that could preclude us from actually understanding the foundations of our situation.

I see this play out every day. As a result of the continued linguistic apartheid in my country, the languages are dead, and the people are stupid as dirt (on average), to be blunt. However, this is mostly Karma, the result of accumulations of centuries past, playing out as the complete decimation of histories; naturally, the education/media system is a propaganda op, with tons of shills at every corner. Those whom you'd wish to see break out of chains, appear to find comfort in them alone. New ideas can't touch them nor move them, because the "programming language" is so outdated, that such sentences will be treated as garbage.

I believe there are deep reasons why India could only think of independence through a class which was more British than Indian. India is but a grave for the civilization it once sustained, and we are but mere flies who wish for a phoenix.

Language does indeed governs our thoughts, and in that respect governs the world we create - it's what makes us human, far more than anything else. Take out the language, and what you get is a mere animal.

http://www.newsbud.com/2013/12/11/bfp-breaking-news-omidyars...

(Is Newsbud classified as "Fake News" by the "ministry of truth" ?)

Interesting, since Assange accused the Guardian of sharing cables (meant for reporting) with the Mossad.

MashiRafael's insurance is gone, and apparently so is Assange's.

Interesting that Moxie wishes PGP were dead (inline with his views in the LibreSignal/Websocked/Gapps PR).

https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/

Indeed! I understand that getting symbolic reasoning out of NN-like architectures is the new "body-mind" problem (J. Tenenbaum ?), but I mean we already have that with PGMs and Markov logic and all those things.

I really don't see why DNN change the game fundamentally. I mean graphical models, they really changed the way of thinking in the field. DNNs in contrast are really still fundamentally building on things built by Yann LeCunn and gang.

Another of alt.right's religious gospels is about BTC being the new 'gold'; about how BTC and XAU will rise as the world is set to plunge. I can't speak for the latter, but anyone with a two bit brain can see that BTC much like USD is negatively corelated with gold. It is currencies like CHF and JPY that ironically track XAU!

Unsolicited advice: alt.right religion does not reflect reality.