Meta has spent massive sums of money to train these models and they've released the models to the public. You can fine-tune the models. You can see the source code and the architecture of the model. The EULA is…
SAAB was financially failing when GM bought them. It's tough to blame GM for trying to impose financial discipline on a money-bleeding operation.
Then there's the question of how the electric grid will sustain this significant new increase in demand. As with mandates banning gas cars, the grid supply and stability is always regarded as a mere detail to be sorted…
Slack is great in small doses, but a complete time-waster beyond a certain threshold. I don't have ADHD, but I still have had problems with Slack. Don't feel bad about shutting all notifications off, or, better yet,…
I have worked in both semiconductor manufacturing and drug discovery industries. Reliably and profitably producing 5 nm chips is an extreme engineering challenge, but- it is an engineering challenge. Drug discovery is a…
If there's one thing I learned with biomedical data modeling and machine learning, it's that "it's complicated". For biomedical scenarios, getting more data is often not simple at all. This is especially the case for…
One of the big differences between the US and Europe in this regard is the much larger proportion of bicyclists in Europe. In Europe, the larger number of bicyclists trains you as a driver to always be on the lookout…
With this kind of uncertainty, is it any wonder that many people don't trust medical science when we are told to behave in a certain way, or when we are told to take a certain medical treatment? How many years have we…
There is PhD level math involved. And yet, ML (deep learning in particular) is much more of an empirical endeavor than many would like to admit. A deep understanding of the underlying mathematics does not necessarily…
Calling YOLOv5 a "fraud" is a bit harsh. It has many excellent aspects for practitioners: easy to use, fast inference time, scalable model architecture, and it has many helpful utilities built-in for model deployment.…
Welcome to computer vision / machine learning research!
What I'm hearing you say, loud and clear, is that you no longer have a sense of a purpose in life. Drugs (legal or otherwise) will not fill that void for you. I do not believe that you can rekindle a sense of purpose…
I share your frustration. If you're trying to be realistic and straight-forward about the limitations of AI/ML, you're getting little interest from investors. Here's an anecdote. I was at an "AI in drug discovery"…
Your suspicion is largely correct, in my experience. I've worked as a consultant on a number of different AI / ML projects for start-ups. Most aren't doing anything all that new or groundbreaking from an ML point of…
If there's one thing I've learned from the dotcom crash and the 2008 collapse, it's this: when the crap hits the fan, cash is king. Start-ups without profitable business models are extremely vulnerable. All of the…
As a computer vision practitioner, I would argue that SIFT is still very relevant today. In most real-world scenarios it seems to hold up as well or better than the deep learning approaches I've tried, and it is easier…
You're trying to act like everything is A-OK with this project, when it has in reality been a huge waste of public money. First, there has already been a large corruption scandal centered on this project, with people in…
The history of the Buffalo "gigafactory" is rather sordid... In a nutshell, Tesla and its subsidiaries made large employment and economic growth promises to the state of NY in exchange for massive subsidies (almost $1B…
This is what a speculative bubble looks like. Enjoy popcorn on the sidelines until people start pricing in financial reality. Manias sometimes take a while to fizzle out. Year over year revenue growth is actually flat…
I have found PyCharm to offer a good trade-off between data exploration and productionizing your code. It has the best Python debugger that I've used. You can also run Jupyter notebooks in PyCharm when that makes sense…
There's a reason why almost everyone pursuing autonomous driving uses lidar despite the high costs. It's because lidar has extremely good "recall" and "precision" in most driving conditions. In other words, if an object…
Did you ever read about the obsessive determination with which Harry Markopolos worked to expose Bernie Madoff? He had a visceral obsession with Madoff, working for almost a decade to expose Madoff's scam. John…
I have to totally disagree with this statement: > There are of course some people who are genuine frauds. How can you distinguish between x calling y a fraud because x is a hater, and because y is a fraud? Look at…
That's right, the Aztek had a built-in pop-up tent for tailgating. Good memory!
I've been waiting for years for something uglier than the Aztek. We have a new champion.
Meta has spent massive sums of money to train these models and they've released the models to the public. You can fine-tune the models. You can see the source code and the architecture of the model. The EULA is…
SAAB was financially failing when GM bought them. It's tough to blame GM for trying to impose financial discipline on a money-bleeding operation.
Then there's the question of how the electric grid will sustain this significant new increase in demand. As with mandates banning gas cars, the grid supply and stability is always regarded as a mere detail to be sorted…
Slack is great in small doses, but a complete time-waster beyond a certain threshold. I don't have ADHD, but I still have had problems with Slack. Don't feel bad about shutting all notifications off, or, better yet,…
I have worked in both semiconductor manufacturing and drug discovery industries. Reliably and profitably producing 5 nm chips is an extreme engineering challenge, but- it is an engineering challenge. Drug discovery is a…
If there's one thing I learned with biomedical data modeling and machine learning, it's that "it's complicated". For biomedical scenarios, getting more data is often not simple at all. This is especially the case for…
One of the big differences between the US and Europe in this regard is the much larger proportion of bicyclists in Europe. In Europe, the larger number of bicyclists trains you as a driver to always be on the lookout…
With this kind of uncertainty, is it any wonder that many people don't trust medical science when we are told to behave in a certain way, or when we are told to take a certain medical treatment? How many years have we…
There is PhD level math involved. And yet, ML (deep learning in particular) is much more of an empirical endeavor than many would like to admit. A deep understanding of the underlying mathematics does not necessarily…
Calling YOLOv5 a "fraud" is a bit harsh. It has many excellent aspects for practitioners: easy to use, fast inference time, scalable model architecture, and it has many helpful utilities built-in for model deployment.…
Welcome to computer vision / machine learning research!
What I'm hearing you say, loud and clear, is that you no longer have a sense of a purpose in life. Drugs (legal or otherwise) will not fill that void for you. I do not believe that you can rekindle a sense of purpose…
I share your frustration. If you're trying to be realistic and straight-forward about the limitations of AI/ML, you're getting little interest from investors. Here's an anecdote. I was at an "AI in drug discovery"…
Your suspicion is largely correct, in my experience. I've worked as a consultant on a number of different AI / ML projects for start-ups. Most aren't doing anything all that new or groundbreaking from an ML point of…
If there's one thing I've learned from the dotcom crash and the 2008 collapse, it's this: when the crap hits the fan, cash is king. Start-ups without profitable business models are extremely vulnerable. All of the…
As a computer vision practitioner, I would argue that SIFT is still very relevant today. In most real-world scenarios it seems to hold up as well or better than the deep learning approaches I've tried, and it is easier…
You're trying to act like everything is A-OK with this project, when it has in reality been a huge waste of public money. First, there has already been a large corruption scandal centered on this project, with people in…
The history of the Buffalo "gigafactory" is rather sordid... In a nutshell, Tesla and its subsidiaries made large employment and economic growth promises to the state of NY in exchange for massive subsidies (almost $1B…
This is what a speculative bubble looks like. Enjoy popcorn on the sidelines until people start pricing in financial reality. Manias sometimes take a while to fizzle out. Year over year revenue growth is actually flat…
I have found PyCharm to offer a good trade-off between data exploration and productionizing your code. It has the best Python debugger that I've used. You can also run Jupyter notebooks in PyCharm when that makes sense…
There's a reason why almost everyone pursuing autonomous driving uses lidar despite the high costs. It's because lidar has extremely good "recall" and "precision" in most driving conditions. In other words, if an object…
Did you ever read about the obsessive determination with which Harry Markopolos worked to expose Bernie Madoff? He had a visceral obsession with Madoff, working for almost a decade to expose Madoff's scam. John…
I have to totally disagree with this statement: > There are of course some people who are genuine frauds. How can you distinguish between x calling y a fraud because x is a hater, and because y is a fraud? Look at…
That's right, the Aztek had a built-in pop-up tent for tailgating. Good memory!
I've been waiting for years for something uglier than the Aztek. We have a new champion.