Mar 14th, 2017: Deep Learning

[glatt]

I wonder if they used that technology to design the Klymint ultra-lightweight backpacking sleep pad? Packs up smaller than a soda can.

[Griff]

Mind your contractor...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Griff

Mind your contractor...

That is exactly my worry, the machine designs and builds according to the ethics/goals set by whomever controls the input.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by glatt

I wonder if they used that technology to design the Klymint ultra-lightweight backpacking sleep pad? Packs up smaller than a soda can.
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like to try that...

[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

I wonder if they used that technology to design the Klymint ultra-lightweight backpacking sleep pad? Packs up smaller than a soda can.
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I found this graphic which seems to match my own experience.

Do the pressure points line up?


Looks to me like the shoulder area is under padded, assuming the head area is closest to us.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by glatt

I wonder if they used that technology to design the Klymint ultra-lightweight backpacking sleep pad? Packs up smaller than a soda can.
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I have to say, this is one of the stupidest fucking things I have ever seen. Designed by someone who is divorced from the reality of camping, it's not only not right, it's not even wrong.

Who remains motionless during their sleep? When backpacking, how often do you find yourself sleeping on flat ground without sticks, roots, stones, peas, and god knows what poking up from the ground? Even a small root would easily protrude beyond the thickness of the mat though one of the openings.

Seriously, people need to get the fuck off their devices, stop playing with solidworks, sketchup, and autocad and go outside and actually touch the physical world.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But it works fine on top of my mattress.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

But it works fine on top of my mattress.

And would it fit in a "child sized" soda cup? @ 48 sec

[xoxoxoBruce]

Deep Learning is raising it's ugly head in a new way.

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn’t look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn’t follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it.

Heh heh, I'd teach that sucker something.

Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it’s also a bit unsettling, since it isn’t completely clear how the car makes its decisions. Information from the vehicle’s sensors goes straight into a huge network of artificial neurons that process the data and then deliver the commands required to operate the steering wheel, the brakes, and other systems.... The system is so complicated that even the engineers who designed it may struggle to isolate the reason for any single action. And you can’t ask it: there is no obvious way to design such a system so that it could always explain why it did what it did.

"Isn't completely clear" is tech speak for Idunno.

The mysterious mind of this vehicle points to a looming issue with artificial intelligence. The car’s underlying AI technology, known as deep learning, has proved very powerful at solving problems in recent years, and it has been widely deployed for tasks like image captioning, voice recognition, and language translation. There is now hope that the same techniques will be able to diagnose deadly diseases, make million-dollar trading decisions, and do countless other things to transform whole industries.

But this won’t happen—or shouldn’t happen—unless we find ways of making techniques like deep learning more understandable to their creators and accountable to their users.

Imagine one of those Boston Dynamics robots with this. They're taking the next big leap toward our Robot Overlords.

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[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

But it works fine on top of my mattress.

And in the pool.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

And in the pool.

I sincerely doubt it.

Think about how little water that blow up lace displaces. If you're not movin the water away with what you're "floating" on, you're gonna be in the water. Water's heavy but not that heavy.