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It's not model of a brain, it's a model of a bunch of connected neurons.

I think it's probably easy to emulate a neural network in an embedded CPU. That seems somewhat boring.

It might be more fun to build a bunch of discrete neurons out of analog parts. Building a forward-propagation-only (perceptron) system should be pretty easy. Might be hard to actually train them.
Look around you - asymmetry is so painfully obvious that even pop theories propose to split intelligence into "book smarts", "street smarts", "social smarts", etc.

I don't see the connection. Asymmetry in the relation "is smarter than" simply means that it is impossible to have both "X is smarter than Y" and "Y is smarter than X" (for X != Y).

In the context of individuals of incomparable intellect, it is inappropriate to say that either is smarter than the other -- never mind that they are both smarter than each other.
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From the post:

This is obviously ludicrous--so why would Dr. Avorn say it about an R&D department? Like your brain, the R&D department is part of a complex system that does a lot of important stuff. You can argue that the R&D department is the most important part of a company, not least because it couldn't survive long without it. I think the same thing about my brain--but I'd still be just as dead without my liver. You certainly can't prove anything about my effectiveness as a journalist by pointing out that [my brain] weighs less than my bones. So how big should a "brain" be? Hard to say. But let's look at some companies that are generally recognized as pretty innovative, and their R&D as a percentage of revenue:

Apple: three cents out of every dollar

Google: ten cents out of every dollar

Intel: fifteen cents out of every dollar

Genzyme: sixteen cents of every dollar

US Government: three cents out of every dollar
Not just a well executed idea.

Its another situation like StackOverflow where they can tackle chicken and egg situation others can't because of their exposure.
I personally write native apps. J2ME for most low end AT&T phones and blackberries. Brew (A SDK straight out of the 80's built on non-static C) for Verizon. Java on Android for the Google phones and, of course, Objective C on Mac OS for iPhones.

I'll work with any 3 of these platforms in a given day. 2 if I'm lucky, 1 if there's a looming deadline ;-)
Sure, take your ball and go home.

I'm not dissatisfied, just seems like a slightly opportunistic project that has backlash potential.
I spent some time studying Self-Organizing Maps, a neural network algorithm from Teuvo Kohonen, a Finnish professor.

The internet has plenty of resources:

http://www.google.com/search?q=self+organizing+maps

I implemented the two canonical 'hello world' projects in processing, but have yet to apply to a 'real' problem. The emergent behavior is fascinating, as is watching maps coalesce in real-time.

There are plenty of other algorithms available; a basic "back propagation" algorithm is widely used in OCR algorithms. Try reading some of these:

http://www.google.com/search?q=neural+networks+image+recogni...

Don't get too wrapped around the axle of trying to find immediate electronics engineering applications, but understand the algorithms and the applications will become self-evident.
Yep.. my university covered things like data structures and complexity well enough, but felt they had to dumb things down for freshmans, many of who would not be advancing.

So we had java and pascal for various first year courses... I wish they had just gone straight to Scheme - it would have been mind-altering and a lot of fun.

They did have one course which was heavily project based which is the one I remember clearly - write a toy compiler, add a feature to a minix like OS, spellchecker with compressed dictionary etc.
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My wife has a Displaylink USB adapter attached to her Macbook so that she can run two external 20" screens.

It's great - it's fast enough for everything that she does (even for videos etc). You only notice you're on a USB adapter when you drag around a window very quickly, or you open Dashboard, and even then - it's not that bad.

(is this really an Ask YC question though?)
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Would rather transform my whiteboard to an office.
Ask HN: printed presentation on a 10 minutes 1-on-1 pitch session?
I have an argument with a friend of mine. Imagine there will be a 10 minute pitching opportunity, held in a format of a 1-on-1 meeting (in a meeting room or something like that). There is just one person representing investor and one person representing a startup company.

Investor's representative is familiar with the target market.

He will have this pitch session within a larger 1.5 hrs session of pitches (10 minutes each).

My point of view is that it does not make much sense to prepare and print a 3-4 pages presentation, but rather use time to communicate without having to turn pages (either yourself or having investor's representative to turn them) and lose eye contact with the guy whenever he looks down into the presentation; and obviously leave a one page exec summary behind.

His point is that it makes sense to attach a 3-4 pages presentation to the executive summary and generally make him see it so he'll kinda think "wow this guy is well prepared" and it will make him remember you better.

What do you think, who's right? :)

Thanks!
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That helps them get exposure, but it does not guarantee long-term success.

Besides, 37signals weren't born with their readership, they built it.
Maybe the title should be "How good are USB video adapters?"

When I saw the title I started thinking about NVIDIA or ATI video cards which is misleading.
I wonder how many people in prison for taking hallucinogenic drugs are put into solitary confinement and are forced to experience said hallucinations.
I hate that word "adapter" - if you think about it, literally everything is an "adapter".

It's perfectly fine to call it a video card, even though it's not a "card". At least it's more specific than "adapter".

And BTW, ATI and Nvidia are not the only ones with video cards.
Assuming your exposure on Haystack brought you business worth substantially more than $99 a month, why ought you be in a position to demand anything at all?
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A rising tide raises all ships. I think this announcement is great for Carbonmade.

For example, I heard of online invoicing when I came across Freshbooks. However, I did some research and went with Harvest.

I think people will see Haystack, see the value proposition, do some research, and then Google search and come across Carbonmade.

I think Haystack will be successful. And I think that will make Carbonmade more successful, too. Haystack legitimizes the market.
No, it suggests you don't realize just how very well they actually are doing.
It's really just Newton's method for successive approximations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_method
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By the way, you really should try out Playdar - it lets you stream your music on any of your computers from any of your computers. It also lets you stream from your friends, and there is a darknet plugin too. Even neater is how it interfaces with the web - you run a greasemonkey script for each website you want to use (say, Last.fm) which inserts a play link next to each track. The browser then talks to playdar which goes off, finds the song and streams it to you. It's really neat.
In reality you would never make an eye contact 100% of the conversation time. I've recently read in one non-verbal behavior book, that people tend too look somewhere else when talking to others and making a point. This does not indicate they're not interested, on the contrary - this shows they are trying to concentrate. So, unless you have a plan which involves you speaking all of the time forcing the other to look you in the eye, chances are the person representing investor would make a brief look at all the pages while asking you another question.
I wonder if the participants would still experience the hallucinations if they didn't know they were part of an experiment.

They were expecting something out of the ordinary therefore they got it.
Nothing guarantees long term success. The point is that part of their competitive advantage is 'being famous'. This doesn't look like a particularly difficult thing to code up, but as stated above, without that initial kick, it would likely not go anywhere.
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"not bad but not that impressive either". I think the 75% is accurate, but even at 50% it's impressive. The number of lines of code in an application makes a big difference to understanding the code and maintaining it. Erlang is just a much more modern language which benefits from having idioms which simply don't exist in c++. Another big win is erlang's message passing model which is much easier to grok and far less bug prone than threads.
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All neural networks do is to aggregate input values (which you can model with current) and multiply it by weights (which you can model by variable resistors) and finally output a squished sigmodial output (for which I am sure a circuit must exist). Make elementary units of such neurons and connect them together. Then train the network by manually changing resistors to emulate backpropagation algorithm.

Though why you want to do all this through circuits (instead of a computer) is beyond me.
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All this is quite good, and I was right in thinking it was just my not-so-good searching skills that did me in. But there are two big questions which I mean to ask

1)Are these projects too big and complicated for a first year student?I can put in as much hardwork as is required but sometimes somethings are beyond a persons comprehensions.

2)What should be the approach to learning the skills required to tackle such problems, considering a student with no previous knowledge of ANNs but some good maths and electronics skills?
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Because I want to show that these things can be done without a computational power. So my work can be further expanded to give IC's. Also it would be cool to have just circuits who have emergent behavior.
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You are doing computation here. Moreover, it is not an emergent behavior, you are training your ANN here.
I will not compare Google and Microsoft, but Microsoft has a long tradition of "coming late to the party and remain the last man standing" i.e. Google has a reason to worry in the long term if Microsoft decided to take search seriously.
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Not doing this is one of the biggest problems with Microsoft's internal dogfooding efforts, in my opinion. They dogfood just about every feature of every product MS offers, but the one thing they never, ever dogfood is licensing and pricing. Everyone just installs "Windows X Ultimate" or "Windows Server X Enterprise Edition" or "Visual Studio X Team System" or "SQL Server X Enterprise" as many times on as many machines supporting as many users as they feel like, rather than being pressured by budgetary constraints to pick the product that meets their needs best at a price they can afford.

The result is that most of the MS rank and file remain blithely ignorant of the extremely high retail prices of these products and their convoluted (sometimes almost punitive) licensing schemes. Given that licensing and pricing is a critical aspect of software use and can easily make the difference between user satisfaction and user desertion to a competitor's product, I've always felt this oversight hurt Microsoft far more than they imagine.
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I'm not sure why this guy keeps getting rejections because I think he can write.
Yup that's what they thought would happen. They were raving in the papers that everyone would have it in sept/oct, schools wouldn't open, etc.

What actually happened was that most people got it over the summer holidays afaik.
Sorry for not making myself clear, by computation I meant just micro controllers and microprocessors. And I was wrong in stating that in such a way because computation is such a big umbrella.

Also the whole purpose of the project will be to make a customized circuit which could be faster than an embedded system.
Stop vaccinating on a massive scale, and polio will be back. It's not gone yet and can still be found in Africa, India, and the Middle East.
Somewhat related:

If someone were so inclined to write an audit application that did nothing but watch processes (I'm assuming, unless there's a better way) of paid applications they'd have a viable business.*

I don't know about the experience of others, but I've been in several situations where I've been given a large amount of software, some per desktop, some seat based that I never ever used. It wasn't even as if I purposely dodged the applications. They were paid for, but just sat there.

No inclination to look and see if one already exists.
Thanks for the examples, and I completely agree about regexps... Personally though, I would be more worried about typos, potential bugs or misunderstandings with the Haskel. For me, the Haskel is too close to regexp land.

If you look at the Java code you've pasted, there's not really anywhere you could typo a character or 2, and it still compile. You'd have to typo a lot, or completely write it in the wrong way for it not to work. It's absolutely explicit and clear what it's doing.

With the Haskel code, you could mistype or misread a single character, and it'd completely change the meaning of the code.

I agree it's more verbose than the Haskel example, but also IMHO more solid/safe.
As far as I know Python has true lexical scoping for functions, if not for blocks. (They used to have very limited scoping ages ago.)

What do you mean?
The problem is that this breaks down the moment your needs aren't met by one of the existing message brokers, and when that happens it really sucks to be tied to a massive protocol.

A reliable message broker is easy to write when your needs are simple. You can write one in a few hundred lines of code. If your needs are simple enough that they can be met by a simple protocol that can be implemented that easily, picking one means you know it's trivial to yank out your broker when it doesn't fit your needs, or you may find it easier to just write one targeting your specific needs from the outset.

As I said, I'm sure AMQP has it's uses. But personally the places where I've used message brokers the needs have been simple enough that it was a toss up whether it would be more work to write a custom broker vs. configuring and working around things that wasn't a perfect fit for us with existing brokers. My first Ruby project was a message broker, actually, and it was pretty much done in a day.
This is exactly why Congress has given the flu vaccine manufacturers a pass on lawsuits. Without such immunity, who would take on the risk of manufacturing a low profit item like swine flu vaccine?

But to the conspiracy theorists, this is just "proof" that the vaccines are dangerous and that "big pharma" and the government are conspiring together.
This is slightly more centred on evolutionary electronics, but nevertheless you might find some interesting papers here:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html
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Not worse now. But the probability of the virus mutating goes up with the size of the population it has to play around in. We all have a vested interest in making sure that doesn't happen.
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Could duplicate the x264_log2_lut table, then you wouldn't need the 'and eax, 0x7f'.... 6 instructions.
I think it does rather remain to be seen if Twitter is a fad, or a sustainable long term business.

The value is in the community, which could be lured onto something else pretty quickly.
> It's much more common and simpler to have client/server interactions

I can’t agree with such a blanket statement. It completely depends on your goals and application logic. All kinds of protocols/applications are designed to be bi-directional (multiplayer games (think MUDs, FICS, etc.), IRC/Jabber/other chat, VoIP, push email, message queues, multi-user document editors, telnet/SSH, remote device monitoring apps, etc. etc. etc.

Just because such apps aren't so often seen on the web, where their function would have to be hacked on top of HTTP, doesn't mean they aren't common, in general.

Running your multi-player game protocol over HTTP, using cookies to record the session, and polling for updates, just so you can say you’re being RESTful (and "simpler"?) is a terrible terrible idea, because if the semantics of your app stay the same, you basically have equally complex logic, now with several layers of indirection and overhead tossed in for no reason.

> For a RESTful function call service, each function would be a resource, and the functions would be required not to have side-effects

Okay, I want my function call to be "I just captured your queen with my rook, and you'd better find out about it because it's now your turn". How does that work exactly?
If you wanna implement logic operations using neural networks (you'll need 1 neuron for most of them - but XOR and NAND will require a few more and some tricks) and combine them to do some non-trivial computation - which is simple but good enough for a first year project - have a look at the first 3 chapters of this free book for an overview of this topic and have a look at the last chapter focusing on hardware for neural networks implementations (which will come in handy if we're not talking about software implementation) --> http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/
I see your point, although I include myself when I say "people suck".
The "original article" makes exactly zero unsubstantiated claims. Its points are (a) a bunch of wankers made terrible predictions, and (b) their predictions came false. Jpcx01's post, by contrast, is purely speculative.
It's nearly impossible to get anywhere near 480 Mbit/s out of USB2. Not only will you normally get maybe half that in ideal situations, you'll churn a ton of CPU pointlessly.

USB's interrupt-driven nature is terrible for pretty much everything but Human Input Devices.
I just try to counter the argument "the database doesn't need to validate because the app can do it" wherever I see it, because it just doesn't happen that way even though it's technically possible.
I was hoping the names would make it slightly obvious, but if not, it's the x264 video encoder: http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
Yeah, though at that point I'd be start to worry about whether that's a fair L1 cache tradeoff, given that it only saves a single (integer!) instruction and requires 512 bytes of memory.
I'd rather have a 10 pages presentation for this meeting, without any descriptions of basic things in the problem area, of course, but with a skeleton of my speech. Just chatting is the good thing, especially when it takes place in a pub, but I would like to left alt least something tangible for an investor that will help him (or her) to ensure easy returning to the subject of conversation in future. Without having such skeleton it would be quite easy to forget all we're talking about. There's nothing about how to create impression about "well prepared guys", really, it's just a practical behavior.
There are degrees of it. Italians got the "slaves of the antichrist pope" and "don't let your kid marry one" hate, but not the "they don't have souls like human beings" or "they're secretly cannibals" hate.
I remember when this was being discussed over at gamedev.net, where Chris Lomont came up with his version. The wikipedia article explains it much clearer though :-P

The history of this particular hack can be found over at Beyond3D:

Part 1: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

Part 2: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/15/

They trace it all the way back to Greg Walsh, who apparently came up with the hack while working on the Titan graphics computer at Ardent Computer in the late 80's, who got the idea while working with Cleve Moler, the author of matlab.
I don't think that's necessarily the case, though. I find myself to be above average intelligence, and I've been told that throughout my life. However, it wasn't until somewhat recently (probably in past 3 or 4 years) that I truly started to accept it. I imagine I accepted it when I was very young, just as I accepted pretty much everything that was told to me, but there was definitely a large gap in my development where I didn't find myself to be anything above average.
IMO the bigger the success, the bigger the influence of luck. If you have a good idea, are talented and work hard, then you're very unlikely to fail completely. But no amount of good ideas, talent or hard work can ensure that you'll be the next Google.
Sure, always a trade off when you get to that sort of point, and not much payoff.
Ask HN: Is there a designer-equivalent to HN?
I know HN isn't solely dedicated to programmers, but general startup issues. However, there tends to be a hacking slant.

Is there the equivalent for designers/graphics people specifically for startups? If so, please provide URLs.

Thanks.
I'm another one of the fairly mediocre students that's been labeled "smart". It was much, much worse in middle and high school than it's been in college, thanks to a stiff kick in the ass by my father, but I still find myself falling back into that old habit of just sliding by. I still consider myself a mediocre student because, by my standards, I am doing mediocre. Now, by most of my contemporaries, I'm doing fairly well in school and life, but I still can't fight the feeling that I'm selling myself short and not living up to my ability.
Thank You for the link!

Its pure gold all the way. And helpful even if you don't ever plan to run a Direct Response TV infomercial. You can glean a lot about human psychology from it.

The best tip for me was:

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Right on man, he can definitely write! Perhaps he just doesn't write about the right thing?
I'm glad that they took the time to go back and review some of the older parts of the library to add little helpful bits (like the new Path.Combine and Stopwatch.Restart methods). If you're not a .NET developer, this list probably doesn't look like much, but these are fixes for a bunch of small annoyances that have been around since .NET 1.1.