Hacker News: igul222

New comment by igul222 in "Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks"

igul222 — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:33:15 +0000

Try removing BN from the critic :)

New comment by igul222 in "Deep learning for visual question answering: demo with Keras code"

igul222 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:17:04 +0000

> It is not for lack of trying that all the top papers in visual question answering end up doing this as a classification task. Results are really poor when it is used as RNN generation

I'd be curious to know if you have a reference for this. Given that the answers are one word, a word-level RNN language model output should basically be the same thing as a straight 1000-way softmax.

New comment by igul222 in "Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform"

igul222 — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:22:57 +0000

This is also not quite right. Models whose parameters are too big to fit on one GPU can be trained by splitting them across multiple GPUs, as was done here, for example: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learni...

New comment by igul222 in "Battleship AI Algorithm"

igul222 — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:19:43 +0000

Cool algorithm! One problem is that its probability density calculation assumes a random ship placement. If the opponent were aware of how the algorithm works (let's say they deduced it from its behavior, which seems plausible) then they could devise a counter-strategy of placing ships on the squares which have the fewest other possible ship placements (e.g. in the beginning of the game, this is along the edges of the board).

New comment by igul222 in "Boost by Mercedes-Benz"

igul222 — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:57:58 +0000

According to their "About" page, a one-way ride costs $22. Even if you buy 50 rides at once, the price is still $17.6 per one-way ride. That's comparable to what a typical UberX ride around Palo Alto costs, in my experience.

New comment by igul222 in "BatteryBox: Massive update – design changes, feature additions and shipping info"

igul222 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:01:08 +0000

Patenting it doesn't necessarily mean they won't let other people use it. It could, for example, be for protection against Apple patenting it themselves and not letting anyone use it.

New comment by igul222 in "CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October"

igul222 — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:56:14 +0000

It's not a problem if those connections use self-signed certificates, right? If that's the case, then setting up SSL from CloudFlare to your servers should be pretty easy.

Watsi Transparency Document

igul222 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:49:58 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KQ2uWkJf5-5f34uttGmAhPcQPxmgq8HsnsIfwFr9Do4/pubhtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134953

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Revel: Programming the Sense of Touch

igul222 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:34:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7DGq8SddEQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8122354

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by igul222 in "42.zip (2004)"

igul222 — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 21:16:27 +0000

I don't know whether it's possible with ZIP, but there are definitely compression schemes for which this can be done in time proportional to the size of the compressed file.

Simulated annealing

igul222 — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:37:16 +0000

Article URL: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7661063

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rainyday.js

igul222 — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:15:45 +0000

Article URL: http://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo012_2.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7644986

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conspiracy theories

igul222 — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:51:32 +0000

Article URL: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_conspiracy_theories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7512613

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by igul222 in "How Animals See the World"

igul222 — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 21:32:37 +0000

More likely then not, you'd just get noise.

Summer Founders Program (2005)

igul222 — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:43:20 +0000

Article URL: http://ycombinator.com/sfp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7440847

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by igul222 in "The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary"

igul222 — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:09:14 +0000

The article mentions that commercial napkins sold for 4 rupees despite cotton being 1/4000th the cost, but also says farther down that the locally produced ones sell for an average of 2.5 rupees each. That's a 38% discount: significant, but it doesn't seem like a game-changing difference to me. I imagine that if this catches on, the larger manufacturers will likely just cut their margins to compete.

On a more general note, one of the big reasons for the Industrial Revolution's switch to mass-production was that making goods in huge factories is more efficient, and ultimately cheaper, than producing them locally in small quantities. Economies of scale are powerful.

New comment by igul222 in "Atom"

igul222 — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:57:20 +0000

Guessing no, because of the Node.js plugin architecture ("need to call into C or C++?", "full access to the filesystem"). Really only the UI seems to be done in WebKit.

New comment by igul222 in "PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length"

igul222 — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 03:45:23 +0000

See CGI.

Bitcoin vs fiat currency vs precious metals (table, at a glance)

igul222 — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:34:49 +0000

Article URL: http://sub.garrytan.com/bitcoin-vs-fiat-currency-vs-precious-metals-table-at-a-glance

Hacker News: igul222

New comment by igul222 in "Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks"

New comment by igul222 in "Deep learning for visual question answering: demo with Keras code"

New comment by igul222 in "Apache Singa, a Distributed Deep Learning Platform"

New comment by igul222 in "Battleship AI Algorithm"

New comment by igul222 in "Boost by Mercedes-Benz"

New comment by igul222 in "BatteryBox: Massive update – design changes, feature additions and shipping info"

New comment by igul222 in "CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October"

Watsi Transparency Document

Revel: Programming the Sense of Touch

New comment by igul222 in "42.zip (2004)"

Simulated annealing

Rainyday.js

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 conspiracy theories

New comment by igul222 in "How Animals See the World"

Summer Founders Program (2005)

New comment by igul222 in "The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary"

New comment by igul222 in "Atom"

New comment by igul222 in "PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length"

Bitcoin vs fiat currency vs precious metals (table, at a glance)

Chinese train that never stops