alex_hirner

The argument is reversed entirely if you take human desires as given, i.e. if you acknowledge that people do text on the road. The metric to compare both alternatives then becomes, how many miles of t…

In contrast to popular fiction, my concerns don't lie in a conspiring super AI. Rather, we should take countermeasures against suffering from a thousand cuts. Flash crashes in financial markets a…

Bigchaindb is tackling generic open data repositories from a technical pov. As has been said below, the larger part of the sustenance prob is economical of course.

There is significant effort (and progress) in standardizing and contrasting test methods [1]. This usually constitues a good first step in a market of lemons. [1] http://energy.gov/sit…

> fallacy is that any amount of money can fix anything. That's exactly why I started http://openbatt.org The problem exists partly because incremental knowledge gains, such as addi…

To top it off, I would love that open access is tied to open data and strong councils for standard setting of such formats in a particular domain. The current swath of approaches to open research data…

Simulating and thus predicting performance of new technologies with computers will be the ultimate afterburner towards singularity. Be they quantum or not. Recent progress has been shown in: - Pro…

Lithium makes up ~11% of a pack, according to this source. Anode and cathode materials together incur around three times as much cost. https://www.quora.com/How-will-Tesla-deal-with-th…

http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-... …

sense2vec tags tokens with information from syntactic parsing and by that offers finer grained meaning on the word level. Here is a good implementation btw: https://spacy.io/blog/…

>I tell you from my experience working in finance that you will never ... Famous last words. As long as you define 100% to be residual errors at human level.

Agree. While this research merely connects the right concepts together in writing, I believe this guy is actually implementing many of those in the right way. A form of hierarchical Q-learning with SD…

Why wouldn't it?

Looks like a mammoth project given the amount of contributors. However, what is more missing in the face of h2o, dl4j and mllib would be a practical scientific computing / compute graph based lib…

Ideally Tay would learn why she was removed from social life, i.e. reinforcement learning from ostracization. In fact, she already triggered that indirectly by having people at Microsoft update her. …

OCR is left out as a possible future extension, which is why I got interested in this comparison. Thanks, I didn't know about pdfplumber! The utilization of additional markup like vertical lines …

Implementation wise, did you train it with one of the widespread python libs or opted in to one the scala(nlp) frameworks? If the latter, I'd be interested which for LSTM worked for you (factorie…

@danso, if there are any delimiters in the output (tesseract case) and you are looking for automatic table extraction, check out http://github.com/ahirner/Tabularazr-os It's…