Tag: artificial intelligence
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A dive into the many faces of manifolds
What are manifolds? I started down this rabbit hole because of Chris Colah’s excellent Neural Networks / Functional programming blog post: At their crudest, types in computer science are a way of embedding some kind of data in n bits. Similarly, representations in deep learning are a way to embed a data manifold in n…
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Self-driving cars should first replace amateur instead of professional drivers
Photo credit: cheers Prasad Kholkute Professional drivers, i.e. lorry, bus and taxi drivers are under threat from being replaced by computers. Whilst amateur drivers, all the rest of us, feel no pressure to stop. I want to lay out the reasons why this is backwards. Amateur drivers should be replaced, whilst professional drivers should have…
Ian Channing 