Oleg Zabluda's blog: October 12, 2016

Oleg Zabluda's blog

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Василий Иванович сдает в Академии экзамен по истории КПСС. Профессор задает вопрос:
Василий Иванович сдает в Академии экзамен по истории КПСС. Профессор задает вопрос:
— Что предъявляли депутаты при проходе на Съезд Советов?
Василий Иванович не знает... Петька подсказывает шепотом:
— Мандаты, мандаты!
Василий Иванович (обиженно):
— Сам ты, Петька, пизда с ушами!

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Чапаев_Василий_Иванович
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

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Historically, very very interesting discussion in the comments (Oct 15, 2012)

Historically, very very interesting discussion in the comments (Oct 15, 2012)
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Geoffrey Hinton: I predicted that some vision people would say that the task was too easy if a neural net was successful. Luckily I know Jitendra so I asked him in advance whether this task would really count as doing proper object recognition and he said it would, though he also said it would be good to do localization too. To his credit, Andrew Zisserman says our result is impressive.

I think its pretty amazing to claim that a vision task is "just too easy" when we succeed even though some really good vision people tried hard at it and failed to do nearly as well. I also think that trying to discredit a system that gets about 84% correct by saying you could get 0.5% correct by chance is a bit desperate.
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Yann LeCun: The vision community as a whole has been skeptical about deep learning and feature learning, but there was the same kind of skepticism from the ML community until 4 or 5 years ago, and from the speech recognition community until 2-3 years ago. Thankfully, things are changing quickly now: deep learning is the hottest topic in speech recognition these days.
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Thankfully, results on standard benchmarks have a way of quieting down theological arguments. Regretfully, they also have a way of killing new ideas in the womb, before they had a chance to grow and prove their worth. That's why brand new techniques in a particular community often come from other communities, where they have had a chance to grow before before confronting the real world. That's why much of the deep learning work was initially published at ICML and NIPS before making it to vision conferences. That's why it's been a struggle getting deep learning papers accepted at CVPR, ECCV and ICCV until now (it was a struggle to get them accepted at NIPS and ICML for a while too).
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Alex Krizhevsky: To me, our result demonstrates that a model which makes few prior assumptions about the visual world can do well when given lots of training data and lots of computing power (relatively speaking).

(Of course, to +Ilya Sutskever, this was obvious from the start and needed no demonstration.)
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Yann LeCun: The difference between pooling layers in convolutional nets (particularly max-pooling at the second stage) and deformable part models is actually very small when you think about it.
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https://plus.google.com/+YannLeCunPhD/posts/JBBFfv2XgWM

AlexNet

Originally shared by Yann LeCun

Alex Krizhevsky's talk at the ImageNet ECCV workshop yesterday made a bit of a splash. The room was overflowing with people standing and sitting on the floor. There was a lively series of comments afterwards, with Alyosha Efros, Jitendra Malik, and I doing much of the talking.

The three of us plus David Forsyth and Vitto Ferrari will be on what promises to be a lively panel discussion at the end of the afternoon today in the ECCV Workshop on "Parts and Attributes".

I'm also giving a talk at 2:30 in the ECCV workshop on "Higher-Order Models and Global Constraints in Computer Vision".

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Connectionist Temporal Classification: Labelling Unsegmented Sequence Data with Recurrent Neural Networks (2006)...
Connectionist Temporal Classification: Labelling Unsegmented Sequence Data with Recurrent Neural Networks (2006) Alex Graves [...], Jurgen Schmidhuber [OZ: CTC]
http://www.machinelearning.org/proceedings/icml2006/047_Connectionist_Tempor.pdf

Explained very well here:
Deep Learning for Speech Recognition (Adam Coates, Baidu) - https://youtu.be/g-sndkf7mCs
http://www.machinelearning.org/proceedings/icml2006/047_Connectionist_Tempor.pdf

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

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Книга не работает. The book doesn't work. IT technical support
Книга не работает. The book doesn't work. IT technical support
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyjPEtlnmIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyjPEtlnmIg

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Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.
“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont Teen USA.
Trump, she recalled, said something like, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
Three other women, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of getting engulfed in a media firestorm, also remembered Trump entering the dressing room while girls were changing. Two of them said the girls rushed to cover their bodies, with one calling it “shocking” and “creepy.” The third said she was clothed and introduced herself to Trump.

Eleven of that year’s contestants reached by BuzzFeed News did not recall seeing Trump in the dressing room. Some said they do not believe he could have been there.
Discussion of Trump entering the room arose among the women themselves last weekend in a private Facebook group after BuzzFeed News reported that a contestant in an adult pageant said Trump had walked into the changing room when “we were all naked.” The Facebook group is open only to some former contestants in the 1997 pageant, according to several women who are in it and who described the exchange about Trump to BuzzFeed News.
Altogether, BuzzFeed News attempted to contact 49 of the 51 contestants at that pageant. Thirty-four declined to talk or could not be reached. Of the 15 women who were interviewed, none accused Trump of saying anything sexually explicit or of making physical contact in the dressing room.
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Trump, who owned the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA pageants from 1996 until last year, has publicly bragged about invading beauty queen dressing rooms, calling it one of his prerogatives of ownership.

“I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed,” Trump told Howard Stern in [2005] “No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. … ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”

Until now it was never alleged that this behavior extended to the teen pageant, in which contestants can be as old as 19 or as young as 14.
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The dressing room was described by multiple contestants as one large, long, open space with 51 stations, one for each contestant, lined up against the walls. Cutting through the middle of the room were racks of clothing. Girls did not have individual partitions shielding their station from the rest of the space, and it was often bustling with stylists, pageant officials, and other crew members coming and going.

Of the 11 women who said they don’t remember Trump coming into the changing room, some said it was possible that it happened while they weren’t in the room or that they didn’t notice. But most were dubious or dismissed the possibility out of hand.

“There were so many chaperones I can’t even fathom” him doing so, said Jessica Granata, the former Miss Massachusetts Teen USA. “It was very secure.”

Allison Bowman, former Miss Wisconsin Teen USA, cast doubt on whether it happened. “These were teenage girls,” Bowman said. “If anything inappropriate had gone on, the gossip would have flown.”
“There was way too much security,” said Crystal Hughes, the former Miss Maine Teen USA. “If that was something he did, then everybody would have noticed.”

Asked why some of her fellow contestants said he did enter the changing room, Hughes responded, “They’re probably lying because they are voting for Hillary Clinton.”
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Billado [...] viewed Trump’s intrusion into the dressing room “was more of a pompous ‘I own this place’ rather than a perverted thing.” Still, she said, “I would never let my daughter run for a pageant that he owns.”
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing

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